Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed

garretble@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  For PC games that’s impossible, at most you can find a disc-shaped steam redeem code

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  • syreus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Family Share works really well in my experience. It worked better when I could change the users more frequently but this model is still works pretty well.

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    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Is there a way to share a single game and use your library still?

      I share my library with my son and when he’s using a game my whole library is unavailable to me, unless something has changed (or I’m old and ignorant … also likely)

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      • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        And the huge drawback that if the kid finds some “easy trick to win matches” on YouTube and gets vac banned, the parent also gets vac banned

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      • mellow@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yeah they (if we’re talking about Steam here) changed their whole family stuff. You can keep playing, as long it’s not the same title.

        store.steampowered.com/promotion/familysharing/

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      • syreus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        That part changed. You only share what game is in use now.

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  • garretble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s why I don’t really use Steam to buy games anymore, too.

    At least maybe use GoG if possible to get a DRM free version.

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• zanyllama52@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve never gone away from buying physical media, but I could understand exactly why you would want to return to it.

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  • garretble@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    For me, when the Switch 1 came out it was just nice to have everything on the device and you never had to do the most heinous thing of taking a moment to put a cart into the device.

    But more and more I buy one to two games a time and focus on those, so that issue is largely not a thing any more.

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    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      For me, with the Switch 1, I was worried about wanting to play a game but oh no it’s back at home. Happened a bunch of times with my 3DS.

      But then I bought a case that had card slots in it, and that concern wasn’t much of a concern anymore. Then the pandemic happened, and I never really left home anyway, which meant it mattered even less. So now I have a few digital games that are super annoying to share.

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• sadfitzy@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You never needed physical media in order to share games with others.

  You still don’t, and you can share with more people digitally.

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