Steam Game Sharing Possibly Coming Soon
In today’s latest rumor, user Grief.exe on the NeoGaf forums, reported that a sort of Steam game sharing code was sound in the latest beta release. While many users were curious as to why one would literally search through the beta code, no one has yet to prove this was in anyway fake. However, with the name like Grief.exe, I’ll be keeping my ears open. Take a look at what he found and make your own judgement.
Below is the line of code that supposedly shows Steam game sharing is coming in a near release, or at least in testing.
“SteamUI_JoinDialog_SharedLicense_Title” “Shared game library”
“SteamUI_JoinDialog_SharedLicenseLocked_OwnerText” “Just so you know, your games are currently in use by %borrower%. Playing now will send %borrower% a notice that it’s time to quit.”
“SteamUI_JoinDialog_SharedLicenseLocked_BorrowerText” “This shared game is currently unavailable. Please try again later or buy this game for your own library.”
Interesting enough, it appears you can share your game to your friends, and once your ready to play it will notify them to stop playing. I’m curious if there is a way to actually boot them out of the game, or if they can troll you for days by not exiting the game. I’ll imagine the latter, but then you probably wouldn’t lend them any more games right?
Keep in mind that this may be only for the European countries, where their government has a stronger grasp on consumer protection laws. That was actually mentioned later on the forums by Grief.exe himself, and it makes a lot of sense. Here in America, the government doesn’t protect consumers like the EU does. Countries regulations aside, at this time it does appear there is some sort of Steam game sharing software in the works.
Maybe someday in the future you’ll be able to borrow any game you’d like out of the ModCrash steam library, or turn yourself into a video game rental service. Now that’d be cool.
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