Steam do a family sharing thing that's worth taking a look at.

the platform you play on is pc, steam is just a launcher, you dont need to be loyal to a launcher, go buy games from whoever you like. no one cares apart from yourself.

Bye felica.

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Oprindeligt skrevet af FrazeeMoreInk:

I own more than one computer... i have more then one game on steam and yet i cannot play two different games i bought from steam at two different computers at the same time.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ idiots.

I'll be urging game dev teams i'm on to push their customers away from steam since steam wants to restrict you from playing things you own on a computer you own with no licensing issues.
I can't even run adventure capitalist on another pc while playing literally anything at all through steam on another computer. completely idiotic.

steam and the cuck newell and steam are just scared of account sharing, and you better find a better way to deal with that fear because this is garbage.


this is why i buy more and more through Microsoft again these days. xbox can let me play things through them on a console or pcs without issue unless it's the same title, sometimes not even then.
steam was cool but this could be a good way to lose folks as fast as they were gained.

Maybe you could come up with your own store that allows you to do it.

As much as I dislike Microsoft, Xbox Game Pass is a better option than Steam nowadays. It would be great to have more options in general.

IDK why some games have no options to purchase them directly, without marketplace, like Tarkov, for instance

Oprindeligt skrevet af Γαῖα:

Steam do a family sharing thing that's worth taking a look at.

Nah, that takes a few minutes. It's way easier to spent that same amount of time to write this post.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Scamdiver:

IDK why some games have no options to purchase them directly, without marketplace, like Tarkov, for instance

Because they want all the money for the purchases instead of giving the other PC stores a cut of the purchase.

In all honesty, things went downhill after 2010 or so. Before that, you could just buy CD, install game, and then play without having to need the CD every time. Plus despite being a minimalist, i appreciate the appeal of CDs. Games were released fully developed, and bugs were features. Plus the boxes and CDs themselves were kinda cool sometimes.

Sure, Steam has made things convenient by making (almost) every game accessible everywhere, but i feel like that comes at a cost? We don't Actually own the games anymore, and we can just have a crapton of games in our libraries and still have nothing appealing enough to play. Idk, I'm probably not making any sense, but the sentiment is still there.

And for those who are talking about family share, yes for now. Original family share wouldn't let players do that though. And it's only a matter of time before this family share also screws up somehow. Not to mention, apparently family is only those who stay in same home. So if my parents/siblings/spouse stay in different city, they're not my parents/siblings/spouse according to steam.

...i should stop yapping and go back to sleep

Oprindeligt skrevet af Nieve:

In all honesty, things went downhill after 2010 or so. Before that, you could just buy CD, install game, and then play without having to need the CD every time. Plus despite being a minimalist, i appreciate the appeal of CDs. Games were released fully developed, and bugs were features. Plus the boxes and CDs themselves were kinda cool sometimes.

CDs where often needed to run the game as it was a sort of protection mechanic. It was rare for a game on CD not to need it.

Games where not fully released. The box art almost always showed beta content of cut content and any content that didn't make it too the normal retail release would be put into the expansion. Which for the vast majority of the games would actually end the story and make it whole.

Games back in the day could have some pretty bad bugs.
Go play the base version of Daikatana and try the "Bugs where a feature"

Oprindeligt skrevet af Nieve:

Sure, Steam has made things convenient by making (almost) every game accessible everywhere, but i feel like that comes at a cost? We don't Actually own the games anymore, and we can just have a crapton of games in our libraries and still have nothing appealing enough to play. Idk, I'm probably not making any sense, but the sentiment is still there.

You never owned the games. Hell on PC it was even more clear because the used game market died within the year CD keys where being used.
Buying an used game was 9 out of 10 times a scam. So people stopped doing it.

Also you have always owned a license to play a game.

Steams convenient is a better plus than any of the negatives it has.

Oprindeligt skrevet af FrazeeMoreInk:

I own more than one computer... i have more then one game on steam and yet i cannot play two different games i bought from steam at two different computers at the same time.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ idiots.

I'll be urging game dev teams i'm on to push their customers away from steam since steam wants to restrict you from playing things you own on a computer you own with no licensing issues.
I can't even run adventure capitalist on another pc while playing literally anything at all through steam on another computer. completely idiotic.

steam and the cuck newell and steam are just scared of account sharing, and you better find a better way to deal with that fear because this is garbage.


this is why i buy more and more through Microsoft again these days. xbox can let me play things through them on a console or pcs without issue unless it's the same title, sometimes not even then.
steam was cool but this could be a good way to lose folks as fast as they were gained.

Ah ... I see you have finally figured out how voting with your wallet works, eh OP?

I'd love to have those multitasking skills.

Have you simply tried leaving Steam in offline mode on one of your two computers?

Oprindeligt skrevet af Nieve:

In all honesty, things went downhill after 2010 or so. Before that, you could just buy CD, install game, and then play without having to need the CD every time. Plus despite being a minimalist, i appreciate the appeal of CDs. Games were released fully developed, and bugs were features. Plus the boxes and CDs themselves were kinda cool sometimes.

You clearly weren't around back then m8.
Games were just as buggy back then as they are now. PErhaps even moreso.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Nieve:

Sure, Steam has made things convenient by making (almost) every game accessible everywhere, but i feel like that comes at a cost? We don't Actually own the games anymore, and we can just have a crapton of games in our libraries and still have nothing appealing enough to play. Idk, I'm probably not making any sense, but the sentiment is still there.

You never read the installation prompt screens did you?
Or the readme.txt files?
Clearly not.
If you had you'd know the license thing has been around since the late 80's

i got a feeling that OP is either trolling or their PC's is not meeting the minimum or not using steam family sharing or the game they trying to play cannot be family shared.

But anyway, there is various stores to make use of, not just steam. If you don't like steam, use GOG, Epic, or microsoft store or whatever other store there is.