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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You can only log in with Discord or GitHub account. That's an instant dealbreaker.

And secondarily, it uses Nvidia GPU.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The service is not ready yet. Login is simply a way to sign up for the waitlist. Auth through social media tries to cut down bots and even if you login it has read only access to your email address and nothing else.

Also it's a single dev who spent few years making it work on nvidia. At this point in time it's too early to be dismissive about projects roadmap.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

access to your email address

That’ll be a no from me

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

Auth through social media tries to cut down bots

I understand. I don't care.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

It will probably outlast Stadia’s duration

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I hope this doesn't end up abusing family sharing (it's been just a few months since it became actually useful) to the point Valve nerfs it back to what it was.

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

I haven't really been keeping track of it for a few years, what's changed that made it better recently?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/4149575031735702628

TL;DR: Simultaneous library sharing. Before, only one user could use a library at a time. Now, up to 6 users can simultaneously play any game from the same library.

This is what Netris is touting users to exploit when they say:

Steam Library Sharing

Grant access to your Steam library, so everyone on your team can join in on the fun without additional purchases.

A "Team", lol wut?

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

Now, up to 6 users can simultaneously play any game from the same library.

Not correct. You can only have as many users playing the same game as you have licenses.

If your family library has multiple copies of a game, multiple members of the family can play that game at the same time

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

True. But I'm not saying otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Neat, now my family can play non-split screen games

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

Oh, this is going to be fun! Google, AWS, or some other cloud provider will turn this into a hosted service, create a bunch of tickets for the opensource project and never contribute everything back, piss off Valve in the process, and somebody will get hurt.

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