I am super happy about the family library sharing. I made accounts for my kids when they were literally babies so I could buy games like "Crayon Physics Deluxe" and such, but exercising control over what they could see and do was always something I had to manually do by just not keeping my credit card info on their accounts and turning off the adult content view for the store page. Having actually good and functional parental controls on Steam, and the ability to share games between the 4 of us is amazing and puts them leagues ahead of what other companies like Nintendo are doing.
I recently learnt about Fallout 3DS. A Nintendo 3DS port of Fallout-CE, which is an Open Source port of the original Fallout from 1997. And it works surprisingly good too.
The Homebrew scene on that platform is surprisingly good. There's a lot of ports and such that surprised me with what they could do. I wish I'd gone cfw years ago. (Esp the NN3DS xl)
What you perhaps didn't know is that Steam Families is limited by household, i.e. same connection from an internet provider. Under your circumstances this probably wouldn't bother you at all. If you have a child living a couple of streets away? They're not your family, apparently. Your ISP has downtime and your same-household family is forced to switch to mobile networks temporarily? You can't. Many of Valve's staunch apologists are quick to accuse anybody "attacking" Valve on this matter of being a bad actor, as seen on places like Reddit or Steam's community forums. However, they simply fail to realise that not every family is "nuclear" in nature, especially not in the 21st century or in countries with family culture that differs from the American norm. My nephew can no longer enjoy Steam Families because his parents split up long ago. He commonly goes from one side of the country to the other due to shared custody. Normal people using Steam's family sharing features with innocuous intent are now being screwed because of this "pretty exciting" update. The fact that the feature is great for you and your family is obviously completely valid. Just don't forget that Valve's new changes aren't an act of philanthropy or fair to everyone.
If you read the old Steam User Agreement, it laid out how the old family sharing was meant to be used. It was not meant to be used outside of households. This is (probably) due to valves licenses with publishers and studios. They are now enforcing those policies with Steam Families because people weren't using the old program in accordance with the SUA and their Valve's licensing. I can't blame them for this. I suspect they will roll out a way to add/manage split households. However, they are under no obligation to do so.
As someone who has only ever used Family Sharing for sharing with actual family members, the new Families option is so much better. Being able to play two different games on the same library at the same time is much easier than having to coordinate when each person wants to use the library.
So according to Valve my brother stops being my family the moment we're not in the same place? He lives across the country border so we're screwed. Valve have a very old fashioned view of a "family". If it was physical media I could pop in the car and drive the games over to him. Why have Valve always been awkward about us lending our games to people we trust? The old sharing system worked better where I could log into his PC and he'd have access to my library.
Enjoy your videos man! Bit of constructive criticism: Rather than recording yourself reading over patch notes verbatim, maybe just read on your own any things that standout and link to the patch notes themselves? It's a jarring transition going from the rest of the video to "watch me read the patch notes on the screen verbatim". Even if you rephrase the patch notes with some of them in the background that would work better, but word-for-word reading them is a weird viewing experience. Again, love all the work you put in, and really appreciate your enthusiasm you share with the community. Keep up the good work!
I had Decky Loader for my first several months with my OLED, but it just caused way too many annoying issues and not enough functionality that significantly improved QOL for me, and so I got rid of it, and don't miss it. Maybe I'll try it out again with 3.0 to see if there are less issues now.
Thanks for talking about DeckFilter again! ❤Always trying to improve and get feature requests done. Next major update will include some QoL features like Shuffle/Randomizer mode and custom lists for bookmarks, cause I need to craft a October/Halloween horror game list for myself 😀
P.s there is a tiny little device called an ayn Odin 2 mini mini led display Snapdragon 8 gen 2 can emulate windows and also has the 🏆🏆 for doom setups gzdoom etc (warzone is proper game just ported to mobile hence the poor start with optimization etc and odins battery life is insane. Actually quite sad to think an ANDROID device can bring more enjoyment than a supposed handheld pc. I hope valve get the punishment they deserve trying to rip off one nation while being cool with all others.
Decky loader is a proff that valve needs to allow third-party addons for steam. I would love to see steam db info and agumented steam addon. I could even atempt to create my own addons for steam just cause I use it daily
you should make a video talking about all these apps and extra programs or at least an updated one or if there is already one point me in the right direction haha
This is becoming just "the steam deck channel" which TBH I would be really enjoying except that it seems that neither I nor anyone I know, nor anyone within at least 4000km of me will ever be allowed to buy one.
8:24 honeslty, that was valve goal to begin with, steamdeck is like the google pixel of android devices, an reference device for others to copy. its a shame that valve didnt relased steamOS for others yet, but i can understand then, they are busy doing QA for the massive steam library. i hope that work and consoles become an open platform just like mobile, maybe iwth a few proprietary options, but hopefully even sony and nintendo surrender and decide to make their own take on it, linux based with option for other stores. *let me dream. maybe even sega! they relased game gear micro afterall, its not impossible.
Playtron might well just be trying to distance themselves from crypto / Web3 because they know how toxic it is to most people. Just finding out a company is into that is enough to turn most, (including myself,) completely off to it. To say I'm skeptical is a vast understatement.
I'm getting the same impression: they're trying to distance themselves from the crypto thing. I get it. It's toxic, scammy stuff. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on that front. But there are other things they'll need to do to win me over. For example, they'll need to improve their onboarding process so that it doesn't obfuscate the Steam login with their own interface. Reduce the EULA crap, and contribute more money and new code to the Linux gaming world.
Meanwhile in Epic Store land ... did it got a shopping cart yet ? I don't know it's current status, so I might make fun of it for no reason now, but it was soo far behind, that I doubt it managed to get even close to 50% of Steam's features. Edit: actually, make that "close to 40% of Steam's features". Since 40% of 30 is 12
I didn't think Black and White was getting this kind of love! Openblack is super cool! It may or may not even bring some modding potential, if they want it to be very modular that is.
i still have an original steam machine. i7-4785T , 16gb ram, 512 ssd. upgraded wifi5/6 . has a built in 860m gpu... i wont lie, sure its not super powerful but god damn does it emulate so well. i've never had an issue with it. i ever had steam installed for a while and it could still play a lot of games on med/low settings. it was more then enough for me for a long time. i now have a modded ps4, deck, steam machine, and Trimui Smart Pro x5 yes 5... i set them all up for friends and family. they are so fun
@@Winnetou17 yeah it its from 2014, its an alienware alpha r1. came with a i3, max ram is 16gb. had like wifi4... honestly was pretty bad before the upgrades, but in 2014 was pretty cool
About freaking time I can share my library properly with family so we can all play and not be ripped off having to buy more copies that will only get played once or twice.
@@travisv6408 things were so simple when local co-op was a common feature. With cheap indie games I'll gladly buy a 4pack or whatever anyway, but imagine 4x every expensive game you wanna co-op
@@Gnurklesquimp2 as it really should be. If I buy a game, I want to share and play co op with friend or family when they are over. But i think its designed to scam players by removing local co op so they have to route it online to play co op. Its so anti consumer.
@@cameronbosch1213 Oddly enough, one of the open source projects they're partnered with is Box64, an x86-ARM translation layer. They may release ARM builds in the future, perhaps?
U said like that smash button 😂 love it when our brains just swap words without realising. Im geeting my deck next week and ur channel has been fantastic for learning thanl you so much
They still missed the mark on the sharing.. case in point I have two Xboxes in my house one in living room and one in my room.. the living room is my "Home" console and everyone can access all my games, game pass and play online and the MAIN point here is they can play the EXACT same game I am playing. I dislike Microsoft like the next guy but it amazing how huge that is only having to purchase a game ONCE.. but my suspicion as much I love Valve they let Game publishers talk them out of that. I will be setting up a Family Library now on Steam but kinda lame we can't actually play games together
I'm always skeptical of rewrites, how would a speed running community react to them... How much effort is put into validation that the code matches? and is that enough.
Most rewrites don't aim to be a perfect 1:1 match. Take OpenRA, for example. It's deliberately trying to modernize the C&C/RA/Dune2K gameplay for today's sensibilities. Make them more accessible and more fun to more people.
@@gardiner_bryant Correct, and that's a huge issue for speed runners because now there is a whole new "application" that could require dedicated leaderboards. Take that FF elevator skip that was discovered on stream a while ago... if that had been on a rewrite how would the community handle it? It's difficult to justify trying to reproduce on the actual game, if the rewrite isn't 1:1. It's ill responsible for these developers to ruin a sport by making and marketing corked bats.
It isn’t family sharing, it’s household sharing, if you don’t live in the same house it doesn’t work. Makes it worthless for divorced people and older gamer with adult children.
Yeah completely untrue. No IP checks at all. I was always in a “family” with my brother in the old system. We now live 8 hours apart and the new Family Sharing works just fine. We both moved to the Beta so we could use it already.
@@Antonio-Can Sigh, YT deleted my answer. I’d bring it up with Steam Support. Likely things you can do: Play games together for a bit. Buy games for them and gift it. Use the same payment account on each Steam Account to show relationship, bonus if it has a billing address.
Mathieu said that they are not pushing it. Their first hardware partner is. Would you blame Canonical if Sui had chosen Ubuntu as their OS? I get it. It's a very bad look. And the fact that Playtron issued a press release about the device seems suspect. But idk... I can understand both angles.
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I am super happy about the family library sharing. I made accounts for my kids when they were literally babies so I could buy games like "Crayon Physics Deluxe" and such, but exercising control over what they could see and do was always something I had to manually do by just not keeping my credit card info on their accounts and turning off the adult content view for the store page. Having actually good and functional parental controls on Steam, and the ability to share games between the 4 of us is amazing and puts them leagues ahead of what other companies like Nintendo are doing.
I recently learnt about Fallout 3DS. A Nintendo 3DS port of Fallout-CE, which is an Open Source port of the original Fallout from 1997.
And it works surprisingly good too.
The Homebrew scene on that platform is surprisingly good. There's a lot of ports and such that surprised me with what they could do.
I wish I'd gone cfw years ago.
(Esp the NN3DS xl)
Finnaly can turn off the beta version specialy for lib sharing
Sorry. I'm not getting anywhere near anything related to crypto.
What you perhaps didn't know is that Steam Families is limited by household, i.e. same connection from an internet provider. Under your circumstances this probably wouldn't bother you at all. If you have a child living a couple of streets away? They're not your family, apparently. Your ISP has downtime and your same-household family is forced to switch to mobile networks temporarily? You can't. Many of Valve's staunch apologists are quick to accuse anybody "attacking" Valve on this matter of being a bad actor, as seen on places like Reddit or Steam's community forums. However, they simply fail to realise that not every family is "nuclear" in nature, especially not in the 21st century or in countries with family culture that differs from the American norm.
My nephew can no longer enjoy Steam Families because his parents split up long ago. He commonly goes from one side of the country to the other due to shared custody. Normal people using Steam's family sharing features with innocuous intent are now being screwed because of this "pretty exciting" update. The fact that the feature is great for you and your family is obviously completely valid. Just don't forget that Valve's new changes aren't an act of philanthropy or fair to everyone.
If you read the old Steam User Agreement, it laid out how the old family sharing was meant to be used. It was not meant to be used outside of households. This is (probably) due to valves licenses with publishers and studios. They are now enforcing those policies with Steam Families because people weren't using the old program in accordance with the SUA and their Valve's licensing.
I can't blame them for this.
I suspect they will roll out a way to add/manage split households. However, they are under no obligation to do so.
uhmm "like that smash button" where?
It's that hand that points south / to you 😛
As someone who has only ever used Family Sharing for sharing with actual family members, the new Families option is so much better. Being able to play two different games on the same library at the same time is much easier than having to coordinate when each person wants to use the library.
So according to Valve my brother stops being my family the moment we're not in the same place? He lives across the country border so we're screwed. Valve have a very old fashioned view of a "family". If it was physical media I could pop in the car and drive the games over to him. Why have Valve always been awkward about us lending our games to people we trust? The old sharing system worked better where I could log into his PC and he'd have access to my library.
Enjoy your videos man! Bit of constructive criticism: Rather than recording yourself reading over patch notes verbatim, maybe just read on your own any things that standout and link to the patch notes themselves? It's a jarring transition going from the rest of the video to "watch me read the patch notes on the screen verbatim". Even if you rephrase the patch notes with some of them in the background that would work better, but word-for-word reading them is a weird viewing experience.
Again, love all the work you put in, and really appreciate your enthusiasm you share with the community. Keep up the good work!
I'm not interested in a gaming device involved with crypto or "Web3".
Lots of cool updates! Looking forward to playing B&W!
this broke my decky plugin
I had Decky Loader for my first several months with my OLED, but it just caused way too many annoying issues and not enough functionality that significantly improved QOL for me, and so I got rid of it, and don't miss it.
Maybe I'll try it out again with 3.0 to see if there are less issues now.
what is web 3 company mean ?
Web3 is a stupid term invented by cryptocurrency bullshit artists as a marketing tool.
@@gardiner_bryant oh thanks
Thanks for talking about DeckFilter again! ❤Always trying to improve and get feature requests done. Next major update will include some QoL features like Shuffle/Randomizer mode and custom lists for bookmarks, cause I need to craft a October/Halloween horror game list for myself 😀
P.s there is a tiny little device called an ayn Odin 2 mini mini led display Snapdragon 8 gen 2 can emulate windows and also has the 🏆🏆 for doom setups gzdoom etc (warzone is proper game just ported to mobile hence the poor start with optimization etc and odins battery life is insane. Actually quite sad to think an ANDROID device can bring more enjoyment than a supposed handheld pc. I hope valve get the punishment they deserve trying to rip off one nation while being cool with all others.
Steam family only available if you are in the same area. My kid lives in Georgia, I live in California, cannot use steam family.
Decky loader is a proff that valve needs to allow third-party addons for steam. I would love to see steam db info and agumented steam addon. I could even atempt to create my own addons for steam just cause I use it daily
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You probably have at least a few people watching you who are not regular command line users. 🙂
Speaking of Black and White....you should try the unreleased DS prototype rom.
you should make a video talking about all these apps and extra programs or at least an updated one or if there is already one point me in the right direction haha
It sounds like you have Syphon Filter Music playing in the background :)
Yep! One of my favorite games!
@@gardiner_bryant It's one of my favourites too 🙂👍🏼
it will be so nice if we can add games from xbox game pass, no cloud gaming
Need to know command line to play a game...
Challenge accepted
This is becoming just "the steam deck channel" which TBH I would be really enjoying except that it seems that neither I nor anyone I know, nor anyone within at least 4000km of me will ever be allowed to buy one.
"becoming?"
@@gardiner_bryant Well, I mean 1 out of your last 5 videos was still about something else.
I mean... Becoming implies that it hasn't been for the last two and a half years. Lol
8:24 honeslty, that was valve goal to begin with, steamdeck is like the google pixel of android devices, an reference device for others to copy.
its a shame that valve didnt relased steamOS for others yet, but i can understand then, they are busy doing QA for the massive steam library.
i hope that work and consoles become an open platform just like mobile, maybe iwth a few proprietary options, but hopefully even sony and nintendo surrender and decide to make their own take on it, linux based with option for other stores.
*let me dream.
maybe even sega! they relased game gear micro afterall, its not impossible.
Playtron might well just be trying to distance themselves from crypto / Web3 because they know how toxic it is to most people. Just finding out a company is into that is enough to turn most, (including myself,) completely off to it. To say I'm skeptical is a vast understatement.
I'm getting the same impression: they're trying to distance themselves from the crypto thing. I get it. It's toxic, scammy stuff.
I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on that front. But there are other things they'll need to do to win me over. For example, they'll need to improve their onboarding process so that it doesn't obfuscate the Steam login with their own interface. Reduce the EULA crap, and contribute more money and new code to the Linux gaming world.
@@gardiner_bryant It's something to keep an eye on either way. Definitely a "hope for the best, but prepare for the worst" situation.
I haven't played B&W for years. I might have to play around with openblack this weekend.
Meanwhile in Epic Store land ... did it got a shopping cart yet ? I don't know it's current status, so I might make fun of it for no reason now, but it was soo far behind, that I doubt it managed to get even close to 50% of Steam's features.
Edit: actually, make that "close to 40% of Steam's features". Since 40% of 30 is 12
Awesome video as always.
I didn't think Black and White was getting this kind of love! Openblack is super cool! It may or may not even bring some modding potential, if they want it to be very modular that is.
Heck. Id be happy with just having the OG Doom soundtrack on Doom 2016
My steam deck got a update and decoy loader disappeared 😂 shit went ghost
Same thing happened to me. I had to reinstall it but I didn't have to reload any of my flatpacks
@@LSOK38 yeah I tried that but it won’t show anymore, I uninstalled it and reinstalled it lol deckyloader turned into Houdini with this new update
I just started playing my steam deck wired to my quest 3 and it's awesome!
You came for 10:25
I have clearly labeled chapters and explained that this is a Steam Deck/Linux Gaming news video above the fold and in the intro. But thanks. 🤣
Thanks for the news!
i still have an original steam machine. i7-4785T , 16gb ram, 512 ssd. upgraded wifi5/6 . has a built in 860m gpu... i wont lie, sure its not super powerful but god damn does it emulate so well. i've never had an issue with it. i ever had steam installed for a while and it could still play a lot of games on med/low settings. it was more then enough for me for a long time. i now have a modded ps4, deck, steam machine, and Trimui Smart Pro x5 yes 5... i set them all up for friends and family. they are so fun
Incredible that after all these years, we still have 16 GB devices. Was this something you upgraded ?
@@Winnetou17 yeah it its from 2014, its an alienware alpha r1. came with a i3, max ram is 16gb. had like wifi4... honestly was pretty bad before the upgrades, but in 2014 was pretty cool
About freaking time I can share my library properly with family so we can all play and not be ripped off having to buy more copies that will only get played once or twice.
@@travisv6408 things were so simple when local co-op was a common feature. With cheap indie games I'll gladly buy a 4pack or whatever anyway, but imagine 4x every expensive game you wanna co-op
@@Gnurklesquimp2 as it really should be. If I buy a game, I want to share and play co op with friend or family when they are over. But i think its designed to scam players by removing local co op so they have to route it online to play co op. Its so anti consumer.
Will playtron work on a cellphone
Unless that phone is x86-64 based, then no.
@@cameronbosch1213 Oddly enough, one of the open source projects they're partnered with is Box64, an x86-ARM translation layer. They may release ARM builds in the future, perhaps?
U said like that smash button 😂 love it when our brains just swap words without realising. Im geeting my deck next week and ur channel has been fantastic for learning thanl you so much
They still missed the mark on the sharing.. case in point I have two Xboxes in my house one in living room and one in my room.. the living room is my "Home" console and everyone can access all my games, game pass and play online and the MAIN point here is they can play the EXACT same game I am playing. I dislike Microsoft like the next guy but it amazing how huge that is only having to purchase a game ONCE.. but my suspicion as much I love Valve they let Game publishers talk them out of that. I will be setting up a Family Library now on Steam but kinda lame we can't actually play games together
I'm always skeptical of rewrites, how would a speed running community react to them... How much effort is put into validation that the code matches? and is that enough.
Most rewrites don't aim to be a perfect 1:1 match. Take OpenRA, for example. It's deliberately trying to modernize the C&C/RA/Dune2K gameplay for today's sensibilities. Make them more accessible and more fun to more people.
@@gardiner_bryant Correct, and that's a huge issue for speed runners because now there is a whole new "application" that could require dedicated leaderboards. Take that FF elevator skip that was discovered on stream a while ago... if that had been on a rewrite how would the community handle it? It's difficult to justify trying to reproduce on the actual game, if the rewrite isn't 1:1. It's ill responsible for these developers to ruin a sport by making and marketing corked bats.
Speed running puritans will always be locked to real hardware@@cheako91155
@@cheako91155 Aren't rewrites like a completely different game in the context of speedrunning ?
@@Winnetou17 they lessen the
need to keep the original usable, so it's not neutral like any other IP.
It isn’t family sharing, it’s household sharing, if you don’t live in the same house it doesn’t work. Makes it worthless for divorced people and older gamer with adult children.
Completely untrue. It’s literally called Steam family share. You create a Steam Family, and you all share each other’s copies of games
Yeah completely untrue. No IP checks at all. I was always in a “family” with my brother in the old system. We now live 8 hours apart and the new Family Sharing works just fine. We both moved to the Beta so we could use it already.
@@aaronchamberlain4698 it didn’t work for my daughters and I. It said “your Steam activity doesn’t indicate that you are in the same household “
@@Antonio-CanI think there is a block if you live in different regions or have bought games from different regions
@@Antonio-Can Sigh, YT deleted my answer. I’d bring it up with Steam Support.
Likely things you can do: Play games together for a bit. Buy games for them and gift it. Use the same payment account on each Steam Account to show relationship, bonus if it has a billing address.
Personally idc how many open-source devs they have. The fact that they are pushing web3 and crypto is a red flag for me.
Mathieu said that they are not pushing it. Their first hardware partner is. Would you blame Canonical if Sui had chosen Ubuntu as their OS?
I get it. It's a very bad look. And the fact that Playtron issued a press release about the device seems suspect. But idk... I can understand both angles.