Steam now warns you if a game you're about to buy is already owned by someone in your Steam Family. : steam

[-] Malix@sopuli.xyz 218 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

wonder if it's going to rat someone out by saying something along the lines of

A member of your Steam Family already owns Horny Hentai Ladies: Stupidly huge dongs GOTY

[-] pro_grammer@programming.dev 124 points 6 months ago

this will only increase the family bonding.

[-] Igloojoe@lemm.ee 46 points 6 months ago

Hey stepsis, wanna play some horny fuck friends later this evening?

[-] BigFatNips@sh.itjust.works 29 points 6 months ago

Sir this is a Wendy's.. and I'm stuck in the dryer

[-] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Why does this Wendy's have a dryer?

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 months ago

It seemed like the next logical step after the fryer

[-] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 months ago

There is an anime that is basically this

[-] Jerkface@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Gross! where?

[-] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 months ago

Oreimo(My little sister can't be this cute)

[-] Jerkface@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Oh, thanks! That's gross, I'll stay away from that.

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

I’m sure Rep. Mike Johnson and his son are thrilled.

[-] RenardDesMers@lemmy.ml 52 points 6 months ago

You can put those games as private

[-] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm still not 100% trusting that. Any time a dev comes up with a new feature like this one, they might forget to implement a check if the game is privated (or do the check and mess up properly hiding it).

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

Exactly. This is like someone I knew who was a CSR blowing off steam at difficult customers by hitting mute and cussing them out. Like you realize that mechanisms fail all the time, right? This dude wouldn't entertain the idea that a mute button could fail. I tried.

[-] DeviantOvary@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I did that when I worked customer support. The only way I could retain the little bit of sanity I had left. But to be honest, we were so understaffed that even if I slipped, they wouldn't have fired me. There was one guy who was so angry with a customer that he wrote their number down, and then over his break called the customer with his private phone to argue with them. Still didn't get fired, lol.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Lol holy shit. I'm sure it's a very frustrating job at times. This guy was a parent and needed his job. I don't think they would've had all that much trouble replacing him

[-] DeviantOvary@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

In my case, the only reason they'd fire people is if they refused to work overtime, hah.

[-] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

damn, i had exactly this happen to me.

i'm very happy to be a) not working with costumers anymore and b) much more chill than i was 20 years ago.

[-] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 3 points 6 months ago

Honestly that’s a great analogy.

I worked briefly as a CSR and during training they made a point of telling us that people had been fired because of doing exactly that when the mute button failed. That was over a decade ago, but I wouldn’t expect increased reliability today.

More recently, a friend who is a CSR told me that their software mute buttons only prevent the audio from going to the customer, but it’s still recorded and can be grounds for termination if the call was audited. I introduced her to a microphone with a physical mute button but made sure she knew that it could also fail (or most likely, that she might be using a different connected mic, in case the hardware mute would do nothing).

Office conferencing software also has a really bad record with their software mutes. I’ve had experiences with Teams, Zoom, and Webex where I’ve clicked mute, but wasn’t muted.

The mute button should be thought of as a feature for the person on the other line / the other people on the call - you’re reducing the noise so the focus can be on the conversation - not as a feature for your privacy. You can treat Private Games similarly - it’s so you don’t subject your friends to the thought of you playing sexually themed games, not so you’re guaranteed to be saved the embarrassment of people knowing that you’re playing them.

[-] Malix@sopuli.xyz 24 points 6 months ago

ah, right. that's a thing.

Goes to show how little I have needed it (or how little shame I have) :P

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[-] Chestnut@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

You'd notice that when you join their steam family because it would show up in your library

[-] veeesix@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

Dad?

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[-] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 81 points 6 months ago

If Steam or Valve ever goes public and IPOs, I'm gonna fucking kill myself.

They seem to be the only ones who aren't like going through an enshitification cycle right now.

[-] pro_grammer@programming.dev 34 points 6 months ago

It all comes down to who succeedes Gabe after his stepping down.

[-] nytrixus@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

I'm glad that it seems like he's extended the longevity of his life by losing a lot of weight. Have you seen him now? Looks amazing for his age. I think if he continued where he was, he might've passed away at some point or be in a worse condition.

He needs as much time as possible to decide what he's going to do after he's gone.

[-] nytrixus@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

That's a little dramatic.

I don't think they'll ever become an IPO.

But it's more likely that if Gabe doesn't have someone or something in mind that keeps Steam on track, there's few companies that can buy it. Microsoft could acquire it. Sony could acquire it. Epic games could acquire it.

Companies that would have no care or clue in how to keep Steam as is.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 25 points 6 months ago

Safest option would be to turn Valve into a foundation, similar to Zeiss: The company owns itself thus can't be bought out, statutory stipulations go along the lines of "Make sure we don't go bankrupt, do great optics, funnel some money to the University of Jena as well as less well off workers in the city". No grand charitable aspirations besides being a good citizen as per 1846 bourgeois values (though that'd be Gabe's choice), otherwise just continue as they've been doing. Make sure all stakeholders (incl. gamers, or at least Valve customers) have standing to enforce those statutes.

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[-] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 61 points 6 months ago

Good guy steam

[-] azenyr@lemmy.world 46 points 6 months ago

This world really does not deserve Valve

[-] azenyr@lemmy.world 37 points 6 months ago

And this boys is why we choose to give money to valve, and as a bonus steam sales are amazing. Valve really knows how to keep a steady income of profit and just dont fck with what works

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Valve knows when they have it good and not be greedy. They are essentially a monopoly but choose not to abuse it.

[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 months ago

valve makes more money by being decent company than many others combined who actively try to exploit users.

[-] antidote101@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago

It needs warnings for of a game requires you to be connected to the internet to play, and if the developer has ever deactivated usage rights to their games.

[-] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 months ago

Technically you have those on the Steam Deck rating

[-] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago

This is the kind of thing that makes poeple love valve

[-] lemmy_nightmare@sh.itjust.works 29 points 6 months ago

Good guy steam. Their family sharing beta is currently a game changer for people like me whose friends have diverse gaming interests and thus, we can try out each other’s games without the need to buy them.

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 months ago

How do you get isthereanydeal inside steam?

[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 months ago

I believe it's the decky plugin for SteamOS

https://github.com/SteamDeckHomebrew/decky-plugin-database/pull/605

I might be wrong, hut this is at least a way to do it.

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[-] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago

It's the Augmented Steam extension for your browser of choice.

[-] makyo@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Has the Steam Family update launched yet? The one that lifted the limitation on playing different games from the same account at the same time. I feel like last I saw it was in beta.

Was also wondering if anyone has a good sense on how they're policing Family Libraries. Does it work to share with close friends or am I going to want to be sure I'm sharing only with household members?

[-] jumjummy@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

You can opt into the Family Sharing beta and get the features. You can only join one family per year so choose wisely as they say.

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

The one that lifted the limitation on playing different games from the same account at the same time.

That should never have been a limitation in the first place. If I have two games installed outside of Steam there's nothing stopping me from playing both at the same time, so WTF does Valve think ever justified it?

[-] makyo@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Agreed it was a chincy restriction. I'm glad they're righting that with the new Family Sharing.

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[-] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 8 points 6 months ago

something tell me the publishers are not gonna be happy about this and will try to sabotage it.

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They cant do shit. What are they going to do? Stop releasing on the biggest platform?

[-] PMFL@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Real nice.

[-] SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

I appreciate this, and now I'm just waiting for it to show me family library games when browsing the store. I have games on my wishlist that another family member owns. A flag that says "family library" would be appreciated - similar to "in library" and "on wishlist."

I don't see it when I browse the store on my steam deck or the mobile app. Unsure if it would show this to me on the desktop app.