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Steam doesn't allow to login twice (once with native steam and once using wine)

steamclosed wontfixreviewed
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#1065 · opened 2013-01-30 by testian · updated 2017-05-26 · 4 comments · github
Ttestian 2013-01-30 github

I think the DRM restriction should be per game or per "gaming". Steam shouldn't disallow logging in twice it should only disallow playing the same game twice, or if a harder restriction is desired: Allowing to run a game while another game runs.

Otherwise I can't update windows and Linux games at the same time.

Ddavidw-valve maintainer 2013-01-30 github

Steam can be installed on as many systems as you want, but you will only be allowed to have one Steam session open at a time.

Iion1 2015-12-17 github

Could you please reconsider this? Being able to run a native instance and a Wine instance simultaneously would alleviate the pain with switching between native and Wine games while #74 is not solved.

AFAIU the in-home streaming functionality lets an account run two instances on the same network. How much work would it take to make that possible on the same computer?

TTele42 2015-12-17 github

I was under the impression this policy was put in place to break some tools that allowed players to control multiple characters in some games (zerging) and it has been in place for a relatively long time.

Iibrokemypie 2017-05-26 github

@Tele42 how come it doesnt efffect other computers with the same account?

Nothing extracted yet.