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They can. Your friend (or a random stranger on your friendlist) has to ask for authorization, you can authorize HIS COMPUTER for the family sharing (or not). You both confused that part, apparently.

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SamuraiVader

Wow, awesome!

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Mozi111

I am not yet sure if I like it or not...

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CyberKiller

yeah!

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Ateszmadman

Thanks for the sharing!

Only first 1k peoples gonna get invite.

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Its not the first people to join the group. They're saying their first wave of invites will consist of 1000 people whom are in the group. They will have more waves of invites on a regular basis.

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doctorofjournalism

Haha, why use consoles again? xP

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Herpulese

awesome, xbox one's only cool thing, steams got it... although i kinda wish that you could play one game in your library and someone could play a different game at the same time. Not the same one obviously but, i dont like how its only one game from one library for either party. Still this is a good advancement

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Yeah, that's a bummer. Too bad my friend won't be able to play The Witcher while I'm playing GTA4.

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Herpulese

you could always launch gta 4 nonsteam, its not steamworks

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KaBob

Or play single player games in offline mode

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It's not clear yet if the sharing will work while one of the people is offline.

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TheChack

Too bad nobody in my family plays games.

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fecske

then share with friends :D
"Can a friend and I share a library and both play at the same time?
No, a shared library may only be accessed by one user at a time."

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Rabbidking

And nobody in my family would be too interested in the games in my library, anyway :P

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andreadandrea

thanks for the heads up andrea, i was actually waiting for this kind of feature!!

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Jenmi

cool

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Anyhoo

More hackers yay .

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raddrax

Really cool.

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vidmavidma

Interesting...

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atb85

Apparently you could earn up to 10x cards this way. Can someone confirm that I understood it correctly?

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Nope, achievements and saves are separate. It would be stupid if cards weren't.

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CombatWars

I think he's asking if when other people play the games from your library, do they also get cards? Cause you can make it a requirement that to borrow your library, they have to give you all the cards or something

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midnightshooter

And steam rental service is up and running. Play my games for 1 key per hour!Only the best games in town!

I was wrong people! Take back your keys.

im being sarcasting dont ban me, lol

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Minimonte

hahaha +1

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AureasAetas

Finally !
A long time we hear rumors about

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dondiablo29

Very interesting

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FAQ:
"Q: Can a friend and I share a library and both play at the same time?
A: No, a shared library may only be accessed by one user at a time."

So it's useless, isn't it?

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No they're talking about a single game, or at least I'm fairly positive they are.

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There's nothing about single game. There's "a shared library".

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Well this was posted a while ago when it was leaked or found in the steamdb and I believe it said only 1 user can play a game at a time but maybe they changed it.

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The question is: only 1 user can use the library at time, meaning that if I play 1 game of that library, nobody else can play any other game OR nobody can play the same game as I do at the same time?

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I understand the question and the FAQ is quite clear but I'm saying in the past it said GAME not library. No one has access to it so interpret the FAQ as you wish.

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thejadefalcon

Confirmed to be shared library access. No playing different games.

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midnightshooter

Can you imagine how much money they will lose if everyone could play the shared multi-player games?

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Sure. Lock me out of BL2 if the owner plays it, but let me play one of his other games, gaben.

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doctorofjournalism

For freely sharing games? Yes

It works for its intended purpose.

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SuicideBroccoli

Wow...awesome :D

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BahDerb

If they can also earn card drops, this thing is gonna be abused to high hell.

I guess maybe. I just read this:

"Who owns and can access the DLC and in-game content associated with a borrowed title?

A borrower will have access to the lender’s DLC, but borrowers may not purchase DLC for a base game they don't own. Any player may purchase, trade, earn, or otherwise acquire in-game content while playing a game, but in-game items cannot be shared between accounts. These items remain the property of the account that purchased or acquired them, whether borrowing or lending the base game."

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doctorofjournalism

It's like they should test it in a beta or something..

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madjoki

100% surely they won't be able to get cards. They are earned by buying not by loaning a game.

Otherwise: Make 10*n accounts and script that
a) changes shared accounts
b) idles cards
c) repeat from step a with different accounts until all accounts done with all games
d) profit or maybe steam market crash

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Member

Hehe yep, that would be ridiculous.
Everyone would be level 150+ with level 5 badges on each game.

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Alteria

Oh my, this is great! :3

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Member

I hope there's a rule for VAC banned accounts.
Not that people start creating alts, share the game/library and keep on hacking on the new VAC-clean account.

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Hanneman213

Will I be punished for any cheating or fraud conducted by other users while playing my games?
Your Family Sharing privileges may be revoked if your library is used by borrowers to conduct cheating or fraud. We recommend you only authorize familiar computers you know to be secure.

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