Steam Broadcasting - The future is here!

[LibertyPrime]

It's happening! Stream ANY games at ANY time without needing ANYTHING but Steam and the game itself!

https://steamcommunity.com/updates/broadcasting

 

From the FAQ:

 

How do I try out Steam Broadcasting?

To try out Broadcasting now, both you and your friends need to opt into the Steam Client Beta. In the Steam Client main menu, select Settings > Account and change your "Beta Participation" to "Steam Beta Update". Then follow the steps below to watch a friend's game.

 

How do I watch a friend's game?

From the Friend's List - From the drop down next to a friend's name, select "Watch Game".
From a friend's profile - Below the "Currently In Game" text, select "Watch Game".

 

Who can watch my games?

The first time a friend requests to watch your game you'll be presented with the broadcast privacy settings. To make a change at any time, access the Steam Client's Settings panel and select the Broadcast tab to view your privacy settings.

Available settings:

• Only friends I invite can watch my games
• Friends can request to watch my games (default)
• Friends can watch my games
• Anyone can watch my games (public broadcast, can be found in the game hub)

 

What are the account requirements for broadcasting?

Accounts that meet the following requirements are able to broadcast games:

• Have made a purchase on Steam and are therefore non-limited accounts
• Are not currently Community Banned

 

Unfortunately...

 

What kind of content is restricted?

As a Steam subscriber you agree to abide by the following conduct rules. You will not:
Upload, or otherwise make available, files that contain images, photographs, software or other material protected by intellectual property laws, including, by way of example, and not as limitation, copyright or trademark laws (or by rights of privacy or publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents to do the same.
Use any material or information, including images or photographs, via Steam in any manner that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary right of any party.

You agree that you will be personally responsible for the use of your Account and for all of the communication and activity on Steam that results from use of your Account. Your online conduct and interaction with other Subscribers should be guided by common sense and basic etiquette. Broadcasts and chats should not include:

• Porn, inappropriate or offensive content, warez or leaked content or anything else not safe for work
• Discussions of piracy, cheating, hacking, game exploits
• Threats of violence or harassment, even as a joke
• Copyrighted material
• Soliciting, begging, auctioning, raffling, selling, advertising, referrals
• Racism or discrimination and abusive language

 

Which means no Skyrim porn streams. Oh well.

[pornphile]

How's this compare to Twitch? Does steam have streaming software now?

[LibertyPrime]

How's this compare to Twitch? Does steam have streaming software now?

 

The software is Steam itself. You don't need anything else. Just change your privacy settings and start playing. I'm pretty sure you still can't save replays/streams yet, though.

[Captain Cobra]

Watching some guy play as his futa waifu.

 

What a time to be alive.

[Kaz Aanh]

So your friend can watch you play Skyrim and then report you and you will get steam account ban.

 

Brilliant.

[LibertyPrime]

So your friend can watch you play Skyrim and then report you and you will get steam account ban.

 

Brilliant.

 

Something like that.

The first victim (if I'm not mistaken) was some guy who was streaming Skyrim with tons of mods (some even from here) showing off his female character. He streamed for nearly three hours. I quit at some point of the stream and I assume he got banned because I can't see the stream anywhere anymore.

[Captain Cobra]

Just a community ban.

 

You will end up losing things like your TF2 inventory though, which is bullshit.

[shirow]

So your friend can watch you play Skyrim and then report you and you will get steam account ban.

 

Brilliant.

 

 

 

So your friend can watch you play Skyrim and then report you and you will get steam account ban.

 

Brilliant.

 

Something like that.

The first victim (if I'm not mistaken) was some guy who was streaming Skyrim with tons of mods (some even from here) showing off his female character. He streamed for nearly three hours. I quit at some point of the stream and I assume he got banned because I can't see the stream anywhere anymore.

 

You have to activate into options to let people watch your games from what I've read. Yeah it was my first thought. In every case you had two solution if it wasn't the case. Go offline for friends, or launch steam without internet

[parzysty]

So, anyone wants to stream some Skyrim? ^^