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    Steam game lending system, Family Sharing announced

    Valve breaks new ground in PC digital distribution and DRM with a multi-user game lending system

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    Quote Originally Posted by James View Post
    Steam game lending system, Family Sharing announced

    Valve breaks new ground in PC digital distribution and DRM with a multi-user game lending system
    Good... now some of my games can get played that I just buy *erm*
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    This will work well for me as I am starting to buy some games for my kids to play. I am happy with this.

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    It kind of blows that shared game can only be shared to one person and not both parties. So got to make sure it's a game you have played or are not planning to play in the future.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Glordit View Post
    It kind of blows that shared game can only be shared to one person and not both parties. So got to make sure it's a game you have played or are not planning to play in the future.
    As far as I understand if the owner of the shared game wants to play it will force the other user out within a short-amount of time just to allow him to save his progress.
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    This will be a very cool feature if you want to let someone try out a game that you're trying to get them to buy.

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    Interested , wonder if I'll get to test though...already 40000+ people in the group.

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    Very interesting, I've got a bunch of games I can lend my bro, especially ones I've already played or will only get to in a while.

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    Sweet. My brother has a whole lot of games on Steam. Time to start being nice to him again.

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    Nice feature, but the one thing I really want from Steam is the ability to gift a game that is linked to my library to somebody else. Let's keep it realistic and say it can only apply to games that has never been downloaded. This is the only way I see at the moment to get rid of my backlog.
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