So I got a fairly large selection of video games on steam, and I don’t quite have a lot of time to play them, so I figure that I would like to try and share with someone who’s down at the hive to kill some time and have a bit of fun. Steam has an “Family Library Sharing” option which enables you to share your steam library with other users, and they can download and play to their hearts content. You can only share to 5 users, but to i think an account can receive as many authorizations as they have family members willing to share. The only downside that i know of is that you can only have one person playing a game at a given time.
So what if we just made a generic “hive13” steam account to act as a hub so that those who don’t mind sharing their library through that account can do so there? Then anyone at the hive can access those games whenever they want (assuming that person isn’t playing a game at the time).
Thoughts, opinions, concerns?
my only concern with a common account is access. I’d rather not have the common access on one of the 3D printer room computers so that they stay more open for fabrication. It might be worth talking to Will and seeing if we could set something up on the computer that he brought if it can handle the games.