:(
I was playing with it on another computer, decided to move it over to the better one, and then Steam decided I was hijacking my own account.
No email to the account holder, no warning, just an unhelpful error message saying my user / password may be wrong so the login failed. (A search and the fact that my behaviour would be seen as suspicious has given me this conclusion).
This is the problem with digital content distribution: It is on a per-account basis. Sometimes people have two accounts, sometimes two computers -- and there are people who share time and money on things, but like having their online settings different.
In real life, legitimate sharing with friends and family is completely fine, since what they end up with is a single product. Why should people have to pay multiple times for digital content? Steam should be able to see when there are two users on the same network, or let a single account have multiple profiles, or let people share accounts with computers on a network. The digital content should not just be unsharable; it should be sharable with the same constraints as exist in real life.
As it is, this is very annoying...
Anyway, back to the other computer and TF2!
I was playing with it on another computer, decided to move it over to the better one, and then Steam decided I was hijacking my own account.
No email to the account holder, no warning, just an unhelpful error message saying my user / password may be wrong so the login failed. (A search and the fact that my behaviour would be seen as suspicious has given me this conclusion).
This is the problem with digital content distribution: It is on a per-account basis. Sometimes people have two accounts, sometimes two computers -- and there are people who share time and money on things, but like having their online settings different.
In real life, legitimate sharing with friends and family is completely fine, since what they end up with is a single product. Why should people have to pay multiple times for digital content? Steam should be able to see when there are two users on the same network, or let a single account have multiple profiles, or let people share accounts with computers on a network. The digital content should not just be unsharable; it should be sharable with the same constraints as exist in real life.
As it is, this is very annoying...
Anyway, back to the other computer and TF2!