How does borrowing games on Steam work?
Steam's Family Sharing feature is genius! You just enable sharing in your Steam settings, and voilà, your sister can now cry over the ending of that indie game you told her about. It feels like magic, except you can't both play at the same time. It's like sharing a cookie but only one of you can eat it at a time. Steam thinks of everything, huh?
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Honestly, just buy the game. Sharing's cool and all, but nothing beats not getting kicked off because the owner decided to play something.
Borrowing games on Steam is all thanks to a nifty feature called Family Sharing. Basically, once you set it up, you can let your family members or close friends access games from your library. They can play those games on their own accounts without buying them, but there's a catch! The owner's account can't be playing another game at the same time. It's like handing over a digital game disk to a buddy, but you can't play your other games while they're using it.
I've been using Family Sharing for years, and it's a game-changer. I share my library with my brother across the country, and we take turns playing. Never had an issue, and it's saved us tons of money on buying duplicates. Steam really did us solid here.
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