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One of the more exciting possibilities afforded by DIY cloud game streaming is the ability to interactively share single-player gaming experiences with people,

by rl3 11y ago

One of the more exciting possibilities afforded by DIY cloud game streaming is the ability to interactively share single-player gaming experiences with people, in games that otherwise do not support co-op. Games like FTL and XCOM: Enemy Unknown come to mind. However, one thing I would be extremely wary of is running your Steam account from AWS or any other server environment. The last thing you want is to get flagged as a bot or VPN abuser and banned; Valve customer support isn't exactly known for being particularly understanding or responsive. Personally I would just load up a throwaway Steam account with a few games and use that.

neckro23 11y ago
No need to DIY -- Steam already has game streaming built-in, so your friends can watch you play if they want. It works pretty well. This is separate from the Home Streaming feature, which is what's used/abused in the article. Home Streaming also works really surprisingly well, although it feels weird to play GPU-heavy games like Shadow of Mordor on my dinky little Macbook. With an XBox controller, no less. (I have the "unofficial" Mac drivers installed, but I'm not sure if Steam uses that or has its own XB360 controller support built-in.)
- rl3 11y ago
  I'm talking interactive streaming, where your friends control the game with you, over the internet. For example, you could all share turns with each person taking control of the cursor at the appropriate time. Steam's inbuilt streaming is fantastic for spectator use, it's just not interactive.
bentcorner 11y ago
> The last thing you want is to get flagged as a bot or VPN abuser and banned; Valve customer support isn't exactly known for being particularly understanding or responsive. Personally I would just load up a throwaway Steam account with a few games and use that. I wonder if you could set up the tunnel going the other way so that the EC2 instance goes through your home network to access the internet?
- rl3 11y ago
  Even with tunneling there's still the possibility of hardware fingerprinting. Unsure if it would be limited in scope to Steam Guard or not.

by rl3 11y ago

neckro23 11y ago

No need to DIY -- Steam already has game streaming built-in, so your friends can watch you play if they want. It works pretty well. This is separate from the Home Streaming feature, which is what's used/abused in the article. Home Streaming also works really surprisingly well, although it feels weird to play GPU-heavy games like Shadow of Mordor on my dinky little Macbook. With an XBox controller, no less. (I have the "unofficial" Mac drivers installed, but I'm not sure if Steam uses that or has its own XB360 controller support built-in.)

rl3 11y ago
I'm talking interactive streaming, where your friends control the game with you, over the internet. For example, you could all share turns with each person taking control of the cursor at the appropriate time. Steam's inbuilt streaming is fantastic for spectator use, it's just not interactive.

bentcorner 11y ago

> The last thing you want is to get flagged as a bot or VPN abuser and banned; Valve customer support isn't exactly known for being particularly understanding or responsive. Personally I would just load up a throwaway Steam account with a few games and use that. I wonder if you could set up the tunnel going the other way so that the EC2 instance goes through your home network to access the internet?

rl3 11y ago
Even with tunneling there's still the possibility of hardware fingerprinting. Unsure if it would be limited in scope to Steam Guard or not.