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Looks great; they could probably impose time limits for sharing, etc. Maybe a requirement for the friend to be on your friends list for X amount of days before you can share with them. Maybe time limits on how long you can play for (1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, forever, until owner of the game wants to play).

 

An interesting thing they can do is, for people played a game through the sharing feature (but don't own the game), they get a discount when they buy the same game for themselves. Potential for abuse, but the time limits above could prevent much of it.

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It would be awesome. :D

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Looks great; they could probably impose time limits for sharing, etc. Maybe a requirement for the friend to be on your friends list for X amount of days before you can share with them. Maybe time limits on how long you can play for (1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, forever, until owner of the game wants to play).

Even though I would love to see this implemented, if they purpose a limit on it, then I'll be pissed.

 

I know I don't "own" the game, but I do own the damn license and I should be able to let my friend(s) play the game for however long they want. If they restrict it with an allotted time slot, then they are saying I don't even own the license of the game. I'm licensing the license of a game. Wouldn't make any sense!

 

I'm all for this, and I do see restrictions coming with this, but I would think it would be more of:

-Friend can only borrow one game at a time(or you can only lend one game at a time)

-If you lend a game, you can't play it until your friend is done with it(but you dictate that, not your friend)

 

If I own the license then I should be able to let my friend borrow it indefinitely and also allow them to play offline with it.

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I should have been specific. The time limits should be up to the discretion of the player. Agree upon a time with friends, then set that. No actual upper limit on it. Could be something like:

 

Been on friends list for 3+ months - can share up to forever.

Been on friends list for 2-3 months - up to 2 weeks.

Been on friends list for 1-2 month - up to 1 week.

etc.

 

It'll prevent blatant misuse; if there's no limits, Player A buys game, shares with 10 people; those 10 people will never have to buy the game if there's no restrictions (taking turns playing the game one at a time). Game publishers/developers won't be happy.

 

Console is a different story with discs. The game discs will need the restrictions placed on them, whereas with Digital, it's easier to control through User information/databases.

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Sharing steam games would be amazing

it would also open up a verification process that would open up trading games you own in your own game library

which would be fantastic

I prefer to not give up my hopes though

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I would like to see a trading system implemented into Steam too. So you could trade any game for another game, to be honest I think this would work better than simply lending someone your game because it would stop abuse of that system. People would trade back and forth and so on so there would only be one license for each game still.

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