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Steam Deck

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This was previously available as a opt in beta, but is now available for everyone.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How is it different from the beta one that we already had? I looked today and I'm still in the beta one and there is no other option to the actual one!

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is the same as the beta version, but is distinctly different from what we used to have. Previously playing a shared game locked down the entire library, now it just locks the one copy of the game. Previously you had to sign in on the same device to make it happen, now you can invite into the family remotely. Previously you could switch people in and out easily, now there's a six person limit on the family and a one year cooldown on both the slot and the member who chooses to leave a family.

Overall it's better as long as you didn't abuse the system before.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Previously playing a shared game locked down the entire library, now it just locks the one copy of the game.

This is by far the best thing ever for me. My 10 year old son is always hogging the damn thing and I never get to play. 😂 Thank you valve for locking only the game. I'm so freaking happy, you have no idea. I still don't understand the cooldown part, but meh, I got what I've always dreamed of, and that is what I care about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This might be a dumb question, but can you share non steam games that are in your library?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, not through Steam Families. Steam servers don't host non-Steam games that you put in your library, it just launches the executable for you when you click play.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's what I figured. Good call on the games not being on the servers, I didn't think about that. Thanks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I think you can Steam Remote Play Together with non-Steam games, but that's the only way to "share" them that I know of.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For GoG games, you could just send a family member a copy of the game you downloaded yourself i suppose

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's why I love GOG. You actually own your game that you PAID for.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The catch is that many game publishers won't release their games on GOG, or wait for several years after release before they start to sell it there.

Technically, Steam DRM is optional and any publishers who want to can sell their games through steam without any form of DRM. The game files are transferable, and you don't need steam running or logged in to run the game. But most publishers don't want DRM removed, and so it's pretty rare.

Here's a list of Steam games that have DRM disabled. There's also a number of games that will run DRM free if you put a txt file with the game's steam ID number in it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You own the games on steam too. It's the same thing, steam just has a front end with graphics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Like I can take the .exe and install it on any other computer own them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No, many steam games use steam to verify if you own the game. It's up to developers if they require their game to have steam drm or not.

If the game doesn't have Steam DRM, you can just copy the game folder and run it anywhere. But many games will require steam (with an account that owns the game) to be running before they'll open.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

See, that's what I thought, because I have tried to put a game once on another PC and it didn't work. So, it makes sense now, it depends on the devs. This is why I like gog. You just have the .exe and you can install it anywhere you want

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yup. They're just files. You'll want to move the entire game folder for steam, the install file doesn't come with the games.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I see, it makes sense as the game would have a bunch of dependencies that are all over that folder. Thank you, I didn't know that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's no mechanism by which that could work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Depending on what you mean by non-steam games. Maybe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

This implementation of steam families has been available in beta for several months. This is just the non-beta roll-out of the feature to everyone.