No kidding. This solves a major issue with the Steam Deck as well, because now someone else can be playing on the Deck while you use your main PC for another game.
Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 3 months ago
Family Sharing enables you to play games from other family members’ libraries, even if they are online playing another game. If your family library has multiple copies of a game, multiple members of the family can play that game at the same time.
Well this is exceptionally exciting. This potentially solves 100% of my complaints with Family Sharing as it exists currently.
Molecular0079@lemmy.world 3 months ago
A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I have issues with this even with 3rd party applications. Wanna play PokeMMO, an emulator that doesn’t even exist on Steam, on your Steam Deck while you’re waiting to respawn in Trouble in Terrorist Town? Fuck you, you’re disconnected from that server now.
Guess I’ll just use my phone then, jfc
Neato@ttrpg.network 3 months ago
Yeah. Right now Family Sharing locks down an entire library instead of individual games so this wasn’t possible.
blueday@lemmy.world 3 months ago
For REAL!! Not playing same game with one copy makes sense. But the one instance per library was harsh. This is tremendous, and honestly, I’ll probably buy even more games knowing my kids can play them and I can stick to my same old same old if I don’t like it.
Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Seriously, it’s great to see Valve digging deeper into my heart with improvements to services like this.