Steam Game Sharing Planned?

A thread on NeoGAF notes some code in the new Steam beta suggesting Valve is planning to allow Steam users to select games to share with a circle of friends. This is confirmed on Kotaku, where they say Valve has not yet responded to the report (not a shock since their story went up at 3:00 am on the west coast). Here is the code in question:
"SteamUI_JoinDialog_SharedLicense_Title" "Shared game library"
"SteamUI_JoinDialog_SharedLicenseLocked_OwnerText" "Just so you know, your games are currently in use by %borrower%. Playing now will send %borrower% a notice that it's time to quit."
"SteamUI_JoinDialog_SharedLicenseLocked_BorrowerText" "This shared game is currently unavailable. Please try again later or buy this game for your own library."
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NeOCidE wrote on Jun 19, 2013, 09:42:
Maybe it's just me and I can't seem to think outside the box, but what do Valve gain from this? Besides the potential for lost sales?


When the game is shared, only one person cam play the game per licence. Say you borrow your game to a friend and he installs and plays it. You can let him play it but you will always get first dibs on it, unless he buys another licence for himself.

This is very welcome news and although Im guessing a lot of people will borrow their games permanently once they grow bored with them, this will only increase overall sales as people would buy some of the games they normaly would have skipped over. Very smart business move for Valve.
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