Steam Family Sharing

Valve has announced Steam Family Sharing which will allow close friends and family-members to play one another's games whilst saving their own progress and achievements, via a shared computer.

Join this group if you'd like to sign-up for the beta.



Press release: http://store.steampowered.com/sharing/

 

ABOUT TIME!!!

I have been playing games offline for over 7 years now and its an absolute pain with updates and using the same account on each computer.
Hopefully now I can create accounts for my "family" and then we can play online from now on. Geesh! I needed this years ago.
I have written off games like Left4Dead, Magicka and others because I would have to create multiple accounts and purchased the game for each account just to play at home.

 

Uh Oh,

"
Can a friend and I share a library and both play at the same time?

No, a shared library may only be accessed by one user at a time."

 

No, don't say that!!!

Maybe we can all play offline in a LAN but with different accounts that share the same games?
I play offline anyways