Valve Announces Family Sharing On Steam, Can Include Friends

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Valve has today announced (http://store.steampowered.com/news/11436/) its next attempt at a console-killer: 'Family Sharing' is a feature that will allow you to share your Steam library with family and close friends (http://store.steampowered.com/sharing/). This almost seems too good to be true, and while there are caveats, this is going to be huge, and Valve knows it. As Techgage notes, with it you can share nearly your entire Steam library (http://techgage.com/news/this-is-major-valve-announces-family-sharing-on-steam-can-include-friends/) with family or friends, allowing them to earn their own achievements, and have their own saved games. 'Once a device is authorized, the lender's library of Steam games becomes available for others on the machine to access, download, and play. Though simultaneous usage of an account’s library is not allowed, the lender may always access and play his games at any time. If he decides to start playing when a friend is borrowing one of his games, the friend will be given a few minutes to either purchase the game or quit playing.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/09/11/190228/valve-announces-family-sharing-on-steam-can-include-friends