>launch a game on steam
>"why do you play that crap"
>>344591416
>Having shit "friends"
>>344591416
>mixing "social functionality" with your video games
>>344591416
>Are you sure you want to remove this friend?
>DOOM open beta multiplayer phase
>Need a new online FPS and see if DOOM would ever run on my computer
>Every time I launched it someone gave me shit for playing it
>Told not to buy DOOM
>Eventually get fed up and uninstall it, losing any interest in the game all together
>Later, turns out DOOM was actually pretty good (MP still sucks)
>Too bitter and uninterested to play DOOM now
>>344593052
It's gets boring pretty quick desu
>Start game
>"Hey bro want to play together?"
>>344593052
You sound like a bitch
>open game
>"fucking weeb"
>its disgaea
???
>>344593531
>good at games and nice to people
>hundreds of people adding me to friends
>don't want to talk to any of them but don't want to say no and make them feel bad
>add them
>regularly get messages and people inviting me to play
>make a new steam account
>>344591416
>Because I paid for it faggot
>friend is anally anguished because I don't play dota with him
I just don't like really shitty games desu
>>344593546
And you sound like a kid. What's it to you?
>>344591416
>start game
>"lol nice try boi"
>"X needs his games back! you have 5 minutes left of playtime remaining"
>forgot to remove Hunnie Pop from library after friending an irl buddy
>>344594147
you sound like a fucking faggot and your friend too
>go to friends list
>appear offline
>launch game
>?????????
>>344593531
>people that message you with inane shit when you're in-game
Fuck off faggot, I don't want to go into the overlay every 5 seconds to maintain a conversation with you when I'm playing something
>>344594481
oh fuck thanks for reminding me
I have to remove some of my real life friends before I buy more weebshit
>>344594392
>friend shares GTA V
>finished downloading
>start playing
>this happens
everytime. takes me like 1 day to dl GTA V, every single time and this has been going on for a month
>>344591416
>launch a game on steam
>"hey thats a good game have fun"
>>344594147
>a bloo bloo I'm such a superior being with better taste in videogames so I'll act like a stuck up bitch and act like a total loser with no friends while they have fun
Enjoy having your friends making fun of you and gradually stop inviting you to do stuff, little piece of shit.
>playing game
>"how is that game"?
>tell them it's good
>they don't buy it
>have no one to play with
>start game
>the entire planet disappears
why its so hard for you to ignore everything?
>>344595828
Better to have no friends than be a pleb.
>>344593052
First stop being a sub. Second the MP for nuDoom was garbage
>>344593717
First Disgaea scores rather tamely on the weeb scale compared to the sequals
>launch game
>lol you bought that?
>yeah
>the end
I mean get better friends honestly.
Nobody bullies me for playing games because we're friends
>>344594392
Is that steamshare? I don't know much about it, I figured it wasn't worth my time when I first heard about it.
Can people share with strangers two ways to basically half-cost future purchases by saying "I buy one, then you buy one"? Or is it a one way thing?
My brother and a few friends all have a few games, and I have a lot. Any risks or problems with sharing games so we can all access games one of us owns?
>play random game
>friends makes ugly face like a little kid eating veggies
Fuck off, will ya? And no, I'm not gonna download Spin Tires.
>>344595828
>mad because he doesn't want to play DOTA
>WAH WAHHHHHWWAAAAAAAAAH
>Launch game
>"Hey want to play Borderlands with us?"
>"Hey want to play L4D with us?"
>"Hey want to play Torchlight with us?"
>"Hey want to play Tabletop sim with us?"
IF I WANTED TO PLAY WITH OTHER PEOPLE I WOULD BE PLAYING A FUCKING MULTIPLAYER GAME, FUCK OFF!
>>344596872
>your friends want to play borderlands and l4d with you
Give them to me thanks
>>344594481
Just say an internet friend gifted it to you as a joke if it ever comes up.
>>344596872
Where do you get friends like this? All my friends are faggots who only play Counter Strike and Battlefield
I've removed friends for less, including inviting me to watch his game. I certainly wouldn't bother to message them, because they are instantly nothing to me.
>>344597082
Or don't fucking care. Play the games you enjoy and don't be ashamed of them.
>>344595070
I have a different problem. It seems like people don't have anything to say when I'm not playing a game. but as soon as I start playing, oh man will they not shut up.
>>344596564
Steam family share works by, if you sign into a computer with your steam account (and click a checkbox), other steam users on that computer can play the games in your library.
The limit discussed above, is that only one person can access your steam library at a time. So, if you try and launch a game on Steam, it will kick off any of your friends from their computers, if they're playing a game from your library.
Unless your friend has a different schedule than you, such as different time zones or working nights, you'll hit this problem often. It's really intended more for if you want someone you live with the play your Steam games, without all sharing the same physical computer all the time.
>ghost and unfriend the closest people I had to actual friends
>wonder why I'm so lonely
>>344597159
Well I have just little over 2k friends on Steam, most of them are from my college days, some from work, some I've met through MMOs, but they're all people I've kept in contact with over the years, can never have too many friends
But sometimes I just want to play a single player game, and I forget to use offline mode.
>>344597395
That probably happens because there's seperate pop-ups for if your friend signs in, and when they launch a game.
They could have the first type hidden, so they only notice friends launching games.
>>344591416
>Launch game for the first time
>"How is it?"
>Launch game
>"LET'S PLAY OVERWATCH"
>Launch game
>"Why don't you have Steam streaming turned on bro what are you hiding?"
>>344596872
>no one asks to play with me because I have no personality
>15 steam friends
>only talked to one in the past year
>people add me on Battlenet to play Overwatch
>afraid to start it up without people bugging me about playing with them
Is there no offline mode on Battlenet?
>make my own indie game in secret
>finally get to release it on steam
>"holy shit dude look at this garbage i bet the dev is retarded"
>>344597705
Get some more friends, bro, it's not hard, just follow the simple rules
>Don't be a douche
>Don't tell people how to play
>Don't be a downer if you're not winning
>Don't complain every 2 seconds
>Be nice
And you'll be fine, people like to hangout with happy people as corny as that sounds, people who treat others nicely and like bros, it's easy to find friends, you'll be fine.
>>344597571
By default, Steam has online notifications disabled. But the point is, these fuckers don't want to talk unless I'm playing a game. When I talk to someone and they start to play a game, I leave them alone.
>>344597859
Are you waiting for people to ask you what game?
>>344597975
no i made that for sake of the thread
>>344597975potato thriller
>>344597562
Does steam still counts your playtime if you play on offline mode?
>>344598087
Yes.
>>344598158
Good
>>344594481
How do you remove something from your library?
>>344597906
This is all true, but I would also add you'll have a better chance of getting internet pals from forums and shit. I've got internet pals I've had for more than 10 years now, but I don't have any I picked up from random multiplayer games. At most I friended a few people and talked to them after a good multiplayer game, but then we never talk again and I end up removing them.
Also never add anyone from /v/. I've done that a few times and they've all been insufferable memesters and weebs. The few decent people from /v/ I've added are when I'm randomly gifting shit, and even then I boot them after I give them whatever game.
>>344597847
Accepting friend invites on Steam is one thing but accepting Battle.net invites should be illegal.
>Online
>Nobody messages me
>Away
>Get messages from at least 5 different people on my friends list
but why
>>344598075
Well good luck with that, I have no strong feelings towards your game.
I know a solution to these problems...
Don't have friends :^)
>>344597975Undertale
>>344591416
immediately remove them from your friendslist
>>344595417
I thought GTA V doesn't let you "truly" family share because of that Rockstar launcher or am I just retarded
>>344598319
>tfw added one guy from /v/ because he asked nicely if I had steam
>he's never even online
what's the point
>>344598319
>Also never add anyone from /v/
This can NOT be stressed enough, no matter how nice the person seems, no matter what they say to you, do NOT add anyone you meet on here.
>>344597906
>>344597906
I don't talk enough for friends. I'm inoffensive to be around but a lot of the time people forget I've even in the channel. The closest I get to friends is playing with a guild, but no one ever connects to me.
>>344597906
So
>be a generic, uninteresting "nice guy"
>>344591416
>launch a game on steam
>"shitgame"
>every fucking time I load the game
>>344597562
>2k friends on Steam
Sure thing Palm Desert
>>344598524
Those are the best, though. You never have to worry about interacting with them, but you managed to have someone on your friends list.
I appreciate all the people who had the same birthday as me, added me, and then go online once a year whom I never speak to.
>>344595828
>play shitty games and like it, or you're a loser!
>>344598703
>the only way a human can be interesting is if he's a dick
>>344598860
No wonder you don't have friends and people talk behind your back
>>344598703
Don't have to be generic, just don't be a jerk and people will want to be your friend, doesn't mean you have to be Mr Rogers either, but 95% of people on both here and most online multiplayer games are total assholes who are just mean to everyone and then complain they have no friends
It's honestly not that hard to make friends as long as you're not a total dick to everyone you meet.
>>344598835
I guess in a way yeah - could have gotten one of those clingy depressed fucks too.
>>344598927
>because you don't play games with friends you don't enjoy, people talk behind your back
Go back to Call of Duty with your normie friends.
>>344597461
1. It won't limit me and my personal steam account, I can just kick friends off if I REALLY want to play? Basically, you can share and forget it?
2. The only real limit is "no playing at the same time?" Most of my friends will play games for an hour or two a day at most like I do, and half of the time the games I'm playing aren't even through Steam, so this doesn't seem like a massive problem.
3. Can it go both ways? Like, I can access a friend's stuff and he can access mine? Or will it only let us share one way?
4. It doesn't do stupid shit like letting your "family" access your steam wallet or purchase with your card, right?
>>344598703
At the end of the day, yes. One of my pals talks shit constantly over the mic when we play Overwatch together as though he was on /v/. Niggers, jews, weebs, Gremlin, etc. But at the end of the day he's a fine dude and he just goes into shitposting overdrive when playing Overwatch. If I only knew him from Overwatch I'd never friend him. Because he was generic nice guy elsewhere we're chums and talk shit together while playing videogames.
It's not rocket science.
>>344598314
Go to the page where you request a refund. It's basically just "I don't want to see this anymore, but the refund period expired so just delete it".
>>344599091
1. Yes. When you're in expanded library view mode (The one with the play button) it'll tell you if your library is in use elsewhere and who is using it. You can still launch a game at any time and they'll get the 5 minute warning to close their shit down because you're playing games.
2. Technically you can play at the same time for 5 minutes. The person borrowing gets booted if the host wants to play shit.
3. It can go both ways if your friend shares his library with you as well, but it doesn't go both ways just by setting a single share up. Once you're both sharing shit however you can play a game from his library and he can play a game from your library in a beautiful nohomo 69 with 0 issues because only one game is in use on each library in that situation. But games that you both own aren't shared, so that can fuck things up.
4. No, though you have to sign the Steam account in to the computer to share.
I have like only a handfull of people added on steam and litteraly none of them even attempt to talk to me idk how you guys have this shit happen so much
>A fuckton of friends
>Only talk with a few
>Cant delete the others because i will feel bad by doing it
Oh well...
>>344599625
>A fuckton of friends
>Don't talk to any of them ever
>Don't delete them because I don't give a shit
>>344599432
Thanks. Sorry if it's a bother, I DID read the FAQ on steam but it doesn't seem to get into these sorts of details.
>Once you're both sharing shit however you can play a game from his library and he can play a game from your library in a beautiful nohomo 69 with 0 issues because only one game is in use on each library in that situation.
THAT sounds amazing. So it isn't even really "Only one person can use steam once you share", I can still play on his games while he plays mine, unless I'm misunderstanding.
> But games that you both own aren't shared, so that can fuck things up.
I'm not sure I understand this part. If I own COD69 and he owns COD69, we can't both play at once because it considers it shared even though it isn't?
>No, though you have to sign the Steam account in to the computer to share.
That's just a one time thing though, right? Like, I can log into my Hentai69 account on his computer, authorize the share, and then he can log into his NEET1989 account and access the games I bought on my Hentai69 account, as long as I allow him to? The important thing for me is that we don't have to constantly go to each other's houses to set it up, since my NEET friend lives with his parents and I'd rather not be there too often.
>its a "friend treats you as emotional sponge" episode
>>344600631
Haha hey man I know I haven't talked to you in a while.
So I'm going through some tough shit in my life right now and I need
>>344598545
Why shouldn't you add people from /v/?
>random person adds me because apparently I have a high score in some game and am in the top 15
>hey can I watch you stream I want to know how you got so good
>literally all I do in the game is fly around and shoot stuff mindlessly
>>344600631
Did he died?
>launch weeb game
>7 hate messages
>>344601501
we all suck, i know for a fact im obnoxious for example
>>344601501
They're usually toxic and really shitty. It's not just /v/ either, I have friends from /a/ who tend to be shitty, and the only friend I have that likes /b/ is an absolute retard. 4chan attracts a certain kind of lonely asshole nerd, including me and most likely you.
>>344597082
I just tell them that I get a lot of weird shit from humble bundle.
Its not really wrong.
>>344601501
They are assholes.
Source: myself
>>344600237
>I can still play on his games while he plays mine
This is correct. If it's something you both own then it isn't shared, even if there are differences in DLC (Naturally you both preordered Fallout 4, but only your friend loves Todd enough to have preordered the season pass. You can't play his DLC-enabled FO4 since you own FO4. If you're a monster and didn't buy FO4 at all, you would be able to play his copy DLC and all) but if you're both playing games from the other person's library then you're golden.
>COD69
No, if you both own COD69 then you're playing your own copies. So player A is playing COD69-A and player B is playing COD69-B. If player B is playing Underage Panty Sniffer-A from your library because he doesn't own it and you want to play COD69, you'll be playing COD69-A because you can't play his copy of it if you own it yourself, even if he's sharing his library with you.
>One time thing
Mostly true. It gets screwed up on occasion and has to be renewed but it's not terribly common. Changing "Computer" (Changing hardware) will break it for the borrower because you greenlight both an account to borrow your shit and an individual computer. If Player-B has two computers you would have to log in to both using your account and ok each one for Steam library sharing.
In your case, yeah, you should only need to do it once unless he upgrades his machine or it does the occasional flake out. Keep in mind you'll get the Steam Guard shit too, so you'll have to be able to access your email to get the Steam Guard code assuming you're using it (You should be).
Steam sharing isn't really limitless Gaben-friendly piracy but it's pretty great for close friends. I've got around 3,500 games and share them with a few pals, and a buddy of mine with 5,000 shares 'em with me. Could be awful if someone leeches too heavily, but again it plays in to the "Share with close friends" thing.
And it's no bother, not many people use it. Good to spread the word.
>>344594481
>not just saying if questioned about it "i got it as a joke gift haha"
>>344601659
>launch sonicomi
>no hate messages
>play it for a few days
>nobody removes me
Good friends
>>344601501
I only add people that I meet in the actual game that happens to be from this site
none of that 'steam friend thread' bullshit
no problems so far
>>344591416
>having friends
>>344601917
One more thing while I'm thinking about it, non-Steam games you added to Steam to play with the overlay don't count as games in your library. So that both means that adding your pirated copy of Undertale doesn't allow your borrowing friend to play it, AND it means when you play non-Steam game: Undertale through Steam it doesn't count as using your library, so your friend can be playing your shared games while you do it.
>Play game with guy i met IRL all i can hear through his mic is his brother yelling at him saying "It's my turn"
>Remove him and never speak to him again.
>Do nothing for hours and hope someone starts a conversation
>Tired of doing nothing, get the urge to play a game
>Soon as I start it everyone sends me messages when I don't want to talk anymore
>>344599625
Why delete them at all? Do you have OCD or something?
>>344601917
>No, if you both own COD69 then you're playing your own copies. So player A is playing COD69-A and player B is playing COD69-B. If player B is playing Underage Panty Sniffer-A from your library because he doesn't own it and you want to play COD69, you'll be playing COD69-A because you can't play his copy of it if you own it yourself, even if he's sharing his library with you.
That's what I figured, but what's the meaning of this then?:
>But games that you both own aren't shared, so that can fuck things up
Like, how does that fuck anything up? It just seems like you're playing normally.
>In your case, yeah, you should only need to do it once unless he upgrades his machine or it does the occasional flake out. Keep in mind you'll get the Steam Guard shit too, so you'll have to be able to access your email to get the Steam Guard code assuming you're using it (You should be).
Sounds great, as long as it's not some constant "renew this once a week" thing it isn't a big deal. I got Steam Guard a while back to make selling cards a possibility, I'll make sure he has it too next time I see him.
I heard about this on and off a year or two ago, I'm surprised I never really see it come up. It's not unlimited, but it's pretty damn generous considering Valve could just say "You want to share games? Fuck off and buy your own or gift copies" and nobody would really care. I have maybe 230 games and the NEET I know has more than me, but a lot of bundle shit that almost nobody would ever buy normally. Sounds like a good deal either way.
>>344602524
so its easier to talk to the people you care about and not see a million notifications without having to turn them off
>>344594481
>Not just embracing it
I have 20 hours in hunie pop, if someone decides to go through my library and see that I don't give a fuck
>>344602675
It only fucks things up in the sense that if you want to play such-and-such game, you'll have to play your own copy. The gaming-69 only works if you're both playing games you don't own. It's not a major issue but it can be mildly annoying if you don't feel like dumping your pal.
They actually used to be a lot more generous with it. It used to be you could play borrowed games in offline mode, which was the glorious Gaben-sanctioned piracy wonderland since the borrower could play anything any time. Now borrowers have to be in online mode (Technically the library host can play in offline mode which would allow the borrower to keep playing, but then the host isn't getting Steam chat and shit which may or may not be an issue) but it still is really nice. The biggest issue is that since the host has to sign on to his Steam account on the borrower's computer, it's more of a pain doing that with internet pals. Usually end up doing it with Teamviewer and just taking over the borrower's PC to do all that shit, and can set yourself up with a garbage password ahead of time if you're so inclined.
>>344600631
>>344601373
I'm always afraid to just mute them when that happens because I'm afraid they might hurt themselves. I mean if they just want someone to listen they can talk.
>>344602727
fucking this. Also it's not as if some of them I never want to talk to again, ever, but I sure as hell can only handle them in limited doses.
>get on steam to play a game or talk to perhaps one or two people
>said one or two people have the common courtesy not to try and start a convo when i'm in a game
>Others will ask "Sup?" when i'm playing a game. My current activity is obvious.
>Log onto steam
>go to play game and get 3 messages from same 2 or three people every time as I start game asking "Sup?"
I usually keep my shit offline for this reason.
>>344597082
>>344602105
>Oh, it was a joke gift/humble bundle shit, haha I wouldn't play it
>Why do you have 140 hours logged on it then, anon? It seems you even have all of the achievements and a review of the game calling it "the best fapping material ever".
>>344603301
Honestly I don't mind listening to shit like this, I do it with one of my friends on a rare occasion, but he was talking to me and shooting the shit for like 2 hours until it turned into that.
It's the ones who use you as a sponge then dump you that piss me off.
>>344602307
>send a few messages for a few weeks
>No response
>unfriend and leave "Hey, you haven't responded to a few of my messages so I dont know if you just lost interest. . .if wrong please readd me
>gets readded
>"friend" sperges out; "ARE YOU KIDDING ME DONT TRY TO ACT ALL HIGH AND MIGHTY WHEN YOU MAKE ZERO ATTEMPT TO CONTACT ME, THEN YOU UNFRIEND ME AS IF IT WAS MY FAULT."
>promptly unfriended
>>344603193
>It only fucks things up in the sense that if you want to play such-and-such game, you'll have to play your own copy. The gaming-69 only works if you're both playing games you don't own. It's not a major issue but it can be mildly annoying if you don't feel like dumping your pal.
OH, now I get it. Bascially, you can't cheat the system a bit by just playing your friend's copy of a game you already own, so they can access your stuff. Not too big of a deal for me.
>It used to be you could play borrowed games in offline mode, which was the glorious Gaben-sanctioned piracy wonderland since the borrower could play anything any time. Now borrowers have to be in online mode (Technically the library host can play in offline mode which would allow the borrower to keep playing, but then the host isn't getting Steam chat and shit which may or may not be an issue) but it still is really nice.
How does that work? The family-games come with some sort of DRM saying "this can't be played offline"? The files still get downloaded onto their computer and stay there, right? It doesn't sound like a deal breaker, since it's a free service and I can play by their rules, but that's pretty interesting since Steam doesn't naturally have DRM from what I understand.
Quite a long time ago the thing that convinced me to switch to PC gaming was the fact that Steam lets you have a forever-yours copy of a game with cloud saves and all that shit, WITHOUT forcing you to stay online to play it. A few years back I didn't have money for everything, so I let my internet contract end and didn't extend it, and spent about half a year on downloaded anime and steam games in offline mode. That's got to be my favorite thing about Steam, I didn't realize they came up with a way to include DRM without forcing it on everyone yet.
>>344591416
It's worse when they're passive aggressive about it
>oh... So you play those kind of games..
>>344591416
>launch a game on steam
>"Chad Thundercock would like to watch your broadcast"
>[Steam friend] is now playing Autistic Children Simulator 2014
"What the fuck are you playing?"
>"Minecraft lmao"
"lmao"
>>344604915
lmao
>>344604758
Just answer them normally and dryly
>So you bought that huh?
>Yeah.
>Wow you're playing that?
>I am.
>Oh... So you play those kinds of games..
>I do.
>>344604915
Why 2014?
>>344602145
>>344597827
Is this just a meme? Or are there people on these boards that are such big losers that they don't even have friends? Forget being a virgin. You would have to have terminal autism to be friendless
>playing a game
>guy invites me to csgo
>i don't even have csgo
>tell him this
>he invites me every single day
why
>>344605107
I didn't ask
>>344604634
>OH, now I get it.
Yup, exactly.
>How does that work?
Haven't tested every version of it since they changed the offline rule, but it actually may still work with DRM-free games if you launch the executable directly outside of Steam. The majority of Steam games use light Steam-DRM (Mostly because they do shit like achievements, cloud saving, etc), and in those cases yeah. If you try to launch the borrowed game while in offline mode it'll tell you you can't play borrowed shit offline.
That's specifically borrowed shit though. Games you own won't throw a shitfit over being played in offline mode, it's just that somewhere along the line there's something that tells Steam such-and-such is a borrowed game, and if the game's executable tries to talk to Steam then it can tell you to fuck off. For games you own of course it'll talk to Steam, see you're in offline mode, and then say "Ok whatever" and launch anyway.
>>344604915
lmao
>>344604915
lmao
>>344591416
>why do you still have notifications on FAGGOT ?
>>344604634
>since Steam doesn't naturally have DRM from what I understand.
yes it does.
>>344601501
>Post in a /v/ friend thread
>guy adds me
>instantly asks if i have any fetishes and if i'd like to erp
>unadd and block
>>344601659
Don't play shitty weeb games then fucking faggot.
>launch a game on steam
>"Ay yo dude why aren't you streaming put the stream on come on"
>put the OBS running just to shut him up
>later finish playing
>hitbox chat is full of him whining because I'm not on mic or chat to constantly entertain him and reply to his stupid-ass comments
>mfw people these days expect everything to be their personal entertainment platform
>startup Steam
>never get any sort of messages from any friends whatsoever
>>344605151
>guy sends you messages
>has overlay turned off ingame
>>344594481
You do realize you can hide the game in your library right. Its under the Set Category button. You can find your hidden games under "Hidden" when you hover over "Library".
How's it feel to be retarded?
>start game
>multiple friends talk about wanting to suck my dick
>>344606010
>have quiet friend who you know wants a pal
>have nothing to say to them
>Have a friend that always asks for your items/stuff on steam
>ended up blocking him
I'm kinda worried about him.
>>344606523
just spout some memes
