- Nov 27, 2001
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So, the other day, I ran into a strange situation for me. Most of the time when it comes to PC gaming, it's just me using my own account. However, in this case, I had someone using my VR PC to play a game, and I wanted to play a different game in my living room. Well, I'm sure you know what happened there... Steam only allows you to play one game at a time from an account. When I attempted to start the other game, it gave me the option to boot the other person off or cancel my game launch. As someone that grew up in the era of shareware and game discs, this is... well, rather frustrating. How is it that we accept the fact that we can have hundreds if not thousands of games on Steam, and we cannot play more than one even in our own household? To my knowledge, the only way to handle this is to go into offline mode, but we shouldn't even have to do that.
There really should be a mechanism in place that allows me to play the game so long as that game isn't being played from my account. Whether that's through an Apple-like device authorization setup, or maybe just an honor system like Netflix does (i.e. hope people don't just share accounts).
There really should be a mechanism in place that allows me to play the game so long as that game isn't being played from my account. Whether that's through an Apple-like device authorization setup, or maybe just an honor system like Netflix does (i.e. hope people don't just share accounts).