Virtual game card is an awesome idea. You can loan games to friends for two weeks at a time but can’t play yourself in the timeframe, basically a balance between everything being locked to one account and being able to share with friends.
You can do something more open on Steam : share your games library to friends and family.
You can still play your Steam games. If you boot a game that is already in use by a friend, they will be warned the game will stop soon, with an invitation to buy the game themselves.
They also have the new steam families feature which just rolled out, which is a bit different. Far more permissive about games, never ties up whole libraries, but it no longer auto-boots people. Six person limit, and also harder to join; appears to only allow people who have played for some length of time from common addresses. It will reject saying not in the same household or something along those lines otherwise.
That, no advertisement in games ( no ''mobile-game'' enshittification of the platform ), and the automatic refund policy too, the owner of Steam seems pretty costumer-friendly.
Virtual game card is an awesome idea. You can loan games to friends for two weeks at a time but can’t play yourself in the timeframe, basically a balance between everything being locked to one account and being able to share with friends.
Lending digital games like that was much needed.
You can do something more open on Steam : share your games library to friends and family.
You can still play your Steam games. If you boot a game that is already in use by a friend, they will be warned the game will stop soon, with an invitation to buy the game themselves.
They also have the new steam families feature which just rolled out, which is a bit different. Far more permissive about games, never ties up whole libraries, but it no longer auto-boots people. Six person limit, and also harder to join; appears to only allow people who have played for some length of time from common addresses. It will reject saying not in the same household or something along those lines otherwise.
That, no advertisement in games ( no ''mobile-game'' enshittification of the platform ), and the automatic refund policy too, the owner of Steam seems pretty costumer-friendly.