Share your library of games with Steam Family Sharing

<< LINK REMOVED >> That's the thing though, Steam allows you to play offline, and opt in to the family sharing if you want. Plus, as a kind of bonus with using DRM you get the massive Steam sales. So you had either the choice of playing offline or using family sharing, and the ability to do whatever you want with it.

Microsoft's approach was you either do what they want or you get absolutely nothing, plus you're still paying an inflated overpriced $60 for digital games (Seriously, there's a reason the LEGO games are $60 on consoles, and $30 on PC: The answer is because Microsoft and Sony are greedy as hell).

<< LINK REMOVED >> You don't HAVE to have that tradeoff though, something Microsoft will never understand.

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If that's so sales will drop. Imagine I have 20 games and share them with 5 others. We could agree on what we will be playing each one of us, until a certain date, then switch to another one without ever paying for another game. One could mount an account were the games are bought, we share the price, and that's it. Sound too good to be true.

And Steam bandwith? No one will pay for that? Sounds fishy.

<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Nope, there is not. I've been participating in the Family Sharing for a while and that's exactly how it works: your brother and 4 other people are allowed to download you entire library and play it without paying a dime if they want and you allow. The only thing is that only one person (including you) may access your library at any time, so it's not like everybody will be playing your games all at once.

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"the reason Steam can have a family sharing feature is because there's no physical discs"

Honestly I cannot see how they can have a real sharing feature. Lets say I want to share my personal collection of games with my brother: my Steam directory is 365 gigs. Do you think Steam will allow 365 gigs to be downloaded for free by my brother and 4 other people? For free? There has to be some shenanigans we haven't seen yet.

<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> That attitude sounds awesome for someone wanting to get friends. But yea I rather too keep my discs in their clean shelves

<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> The point is sharing, not "trading", so no matter if you're sharing with someone with a small library, unless you see no advantage in being nice to your friends and family and just want the advantage of getting a bigger library yourself.

<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> make sure to share with someone that actually has games you are interested in, you only get 5 pc's

i have like 100 games on my library and my bro has 14 which 7 i already have, and 7 i'm not interested in. other than that i dont have friends on steam

<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Talking with my friend, we kinda thought maybe that's what it takes.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> So you are admitting you are dumb?

<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> no actually it's dumb = Troll

<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Troll = dumb. Doesn't look like he is butthurt.

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Afraid so. I had the link that explained how it was meant to be done. I can try to find it if you're interested although I'm not sure I kept it. Its something close to a year old.