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Nahh dude has a bigger years of service then steam's age
This screenshot is from 100 years in the future.
Mind asking your future connection to fire up Stanley Parable for me?
Let's see what fuckery they baked in.
Some day...
They'll fire it up mere moments before you finally get the Go Oustide achievement.
WHY DIDN'T THIS FUCKER WARN US ABOUT 9/11
25 years ago, 9/11 wasn't a big deal.
WHY DIDN'T THIS FUCKER REMIND US ABOUT 9/11
Another example of a company making clear that we don't truly own the games we play on their platform.
The solution is GOG (their business model).
You get the individual keys, no DRM.
A couple of years ago my gog exceeded my steam library. Pretty good considering I have around 500 on steam.
.... But wait till you find out how many of those I've actually played... 🙃😓😢
And to how many already played games you return to bcs not enough energy to start a brand new game (especially with rich/complex lore).
Yeah.
Yeah my kids basically took over my steam account already on the family gaming computer. Alas.
Your gaming alias now is a generational family name. All hail the House of Sparkles.
I look forward to the day when I pass my screen name on to my son...
I don't think I wanna give them mine....
Failedaborzzzzzzznn and missedperi0d
The family sharing works okay but the old school way is good too.
I think they might start getting suspicious when the account age is double the average human lifespan and is still in use.
Not true as I've often been born on January 1st in the early 1900's.
I was referring more to the "Years of Service" badge you can find on your Steam profile, whose count begins when your account was created. It shows on the page when you look at the badge itself. Mine shows it was created on August 4, 2006.
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Hey me too, birthday buddy.
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Assuming valve still exists at that point.
but by that point, whoever the inheritors of the account were have probably been paying money and adding new games to it for decades. why would valve destroy their relationship with that customer just because they might still technically have access to some hundred year old games that either don't even run on modern systems, or might even be public domain by that point?
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In Australia we don't have family sharing for some stupid reason
I dunno if it's "family sharing" or some other thing, but I can play games from my sister's library through some means that I set up a couple of years ago.
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That won't work for long. With the way things are going, we may get expiring accounts after 100 years from your date of birth you registered with.
That's not gonna stick, steam can't remember birthdays. And I'm pretty sure everyone told it multiple times we were born January 1 1901
1901-01-01?
I think they said you can't transfer the license between accounts, but they never said anything about turning over the account
Transferring your account to another person is against the TOS of most services.
I think the TOS include that you are not allow to tell your login credentials to anyone?
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Your children can inherit your GOG library. Buy DRM free!
Or just pirate lmao
This policy is literally against the law in the EU... Wait... double checks notes In the.. US? huh... normally it's the European Union protecting us from big tech bullshit
That’s how we’re still using my Dad’s account, it’s mostly used by my brother, but shared with the other gamers in the family
I got three kids, I wrote down my steam login in all their baby books page 1.
I hope the password is kid friendly
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GOG being the absolute BOSS; u will be able to leave your library as your legacy for future generations.
Well yeah, you just get the non DRM installer and dump it in your NAS, done
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