Until you think it might be fun to play 2 games on 2 different monitors on 2 computers at the same time.
Then you realise, Steam games are not treated as just software.
1 of the many reasons I prefer to pay the price for GoG despite Steam being significantly cheaper due to regional pricing.
Hmm. I remember steam saying it can’t run a game because the same account was using a game on another PC. Maybe something changed since then.
I’ll check it out again. Thanks for the info.
You’re correct, the other commenter missed the “2 computers” part of your comment.
You can run multiple Steam games at the same time on the same PC, but not on different PCs.
That is, unless you take advantage of Steam’s “offline” mode. If you launch Steam in offline mode on the secondary computer, you’ll be able to play already-downloaded Steam games on that PC, while still being free to play Steam games normally on the primary computer.
This seems to be one way of them trying to prevent piracy.
The situation here is that the game soundtracks I bought on are not prevented from download and I am able to use it on any device I want. Despite that, it never came to my mind to pirate it. Same for the GoG games. But there still exist enough pirated steam games out there.
It can be simply concluded that the people who don’t want to pirate, will buy the stuff and not pirate it no matter how easy you make it, whereas those who want to pirate it will actually be more zealous in pirating stuff that makes it harder to do so.
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I don’t pirate games anymore because steam solved my access problem.
Amazing that all these shitty streaming services make me wish blockbuster was a thing again.
But, since it isn’t and never will be, it’s a yo ho ho from me.
(Until a reasonable steam-esque service for movies/shows turns up anyway)
Until you think it might be fun to play 2 games on 2 different monitors on 2 computers at the same time. Then you realise, Steam games are not treated as just software. 1 of the many reasons I prefer to pay the price for GoG despite Steam being significantly cheaper due to regional pricing.
No idea what you’re talking about; I’ve played two games from steam plenty of times while waiting for something in a game.
Hmm. I remember steam saying it can’t run a game because the same account was using a game on another PC. Maybe something changed since then. I’ll check it out again. Thanks for the info.
You’re correct, the other commenter missed the “2 computers” part of your comment.
You can run multiple Steam games at the same time on the same PC, but not on different PCs.
That is, unless you take advantage of Steam’s “offline” mode. If you launch Steam in offline mode on the secondary computer, you’ll be able to play already-downloaded Steam games on that PC, while still being free to play Steam games normally on the primary computer.
Interesting. Perhaps I’ll try doing the single computer thingy.
This seems to be one way of them trying to prevent piracy.
The situation here is that the game soundtracks I bought on are not prevented from download and I am able to use it on any device I want. Despite that, it never came to my mind to pirate it. Same for the GoG games. But there still exist enough pirated steam games out there.
It can be simply concluded that the people who don’t want to pirate, will buy the stuff and not pirate it no matter how easy you make it, whereas those who want to pirate it will actually be more zealous in pirating stuff that makes it harder to do so.