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Valve announced a replacement feature for both Family Sharing and Family View. Currently in beta.

Features:

  • up to 5 members
  • game sharing
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    • allow access to appropriate games
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[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

He's already said that he'd sink the company before he'd sell it. I believe him... it's not like he's not already rolling in money. What else do you offer him?

Edit: sink in this context being releasing all the drm.

[–] sdcSpade@lemmy.zip 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The man's not gonna live forever, ownership changing is a matter of time, not raw money. And I dread that time.

[–] Kedly@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Well trashing steam wont fix that issue, thats an issue with all Steams competition being garbage

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

The other part of the question remains however, what happens when leadership changes, even supposing no sale of the company?