Because people will absolutely abuse it for other means, like selling shared accounts and what not.
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MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Same household only? Why can’t they just allow a certain number of people in your “family” use it? I have no kids, but I’d like to allow my siblings or in-laws use my games. They live in different cities.
PunchingWood@lemmy.world 1 week ago
60fpsrefugee@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I don’t think they put a restriction on household Internet IP, just that you can only share with people within your region.
MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Region meaning country/continent? One of them lives across the country.
shasta@lemm.ee 1 week ago
You can likely use it from different physical locations. But just know that I’m order to set it up, you have to login with your account on their computer at some point to enable the family sharing feature. So unless you go there qnd do it, or remote into their computer to do it, or give them your password, you can’t use that feature. Some level of trust in each other is required.
Sylvartas@lemmy.world 1 week ago
But just know that I’m order to set it up, you have to login with your account on their computer at some point to enable the family sharing feature
I doubt it, because I think that’s literally how it used to work
firadin@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Because the point of this is to force friends and adult family members to force extra copies of games. Do yall actually think Valve is giving away free game access?
To those who are saying it’s not IP locked: people on reddit are all saying that the newer sign-ups are locked but they didn’t clear older sharing from early beta.
bread@feddit.nl 1 week ago
I really doubt they’ve got an IP lock on place; just set up a Family and invite your siblings and in-laws.
radix@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They do point out that they will be monitoring how it’s used, and could adjust things later.
Sounds like corporate-speak for “if people abuse this, we’ll lock it down harder.”
Even if people are using it to share with actual family around the country, they may get caught up in future updates that remove that feature. Also note that any publisher can opt out of the sharing. If EA or Ubi or some other big company doesn’t like the lack of limits, they may be able to force Valve’s hand in changing the policy.
The idea is wonderful, but there are a ton sof ways this could end up worse than the old system.
1984@lemmy.today 1 week ago
This is technical but you could set up a wireguard vpn server and let your friends connect to your computer. Then you all look like you are sitting in your home network.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 week ago
Free for 100 devices! You can legit install it on every device virtual and physical device in your home and maybe run out of devices for the free plan. Right now I use it to secure the connection between my VPS proxy and my Minecraft server, as duct tape fixing some network fuckery, and as my primary means of connecting to services inside and outside of my LAN