[PostOnce]

What if Steam had to, by law, share your game library with other services?

i.e., just like you can take your phone number to any other phone company, or how banks in europe have to share info, you were able to take your game library with you to any other game distribution service?

Perhaps the same could be done for iOS/Android portability

[grahamburger]

I've often wished that this would happen for movies / music. When I buy a streaming movie on Amazon I'd like to be able to transfer it to Google Play or vice versa.

[euvitudo]

Except the way the movie/music folks look at it is probably the same way they look at VHS, DVD, Blu-ray and BR 4K and so forth or vinyl, 8-track, cassette, CD, etc... Apple, Amazon and Google are yet another "format" as it were. More platforms means more money for them.

It's not about the customer--none of them cares, except at that moment in time the customer forks over the cash for it.

[tambienben]

You wouldn't transfer a car to Google Play, would you?

[grahamburger]

I'm not sure what that means. Every way that I can think of to compare movie ownership and car ownership suggests that I should be able to transfer a movie from one service to another.

[craftyguy]

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/piracy-it-s-a-crime

[joshtynjala]

Check out Movies Anywhere.

[drb91]

How do you transfer from movies anywhere to eg your itunes account?

Because otherwise they seem like just another walled garden.

[chungy]

You can connect your Movies Anywhere account to Vudu, Amazon, Google, and/or iTunes. Then your library shows up on those services.

[drb91]

Wow, I stand corrected, that actually seems pretty useful!

[mastax]

Any (participating?) movie on any linked account is automatically added to all linked account libraries (as I remember it).

[yAnonymous]

>What if Steam had to, by law, share your game library with other services?

Then players would move all their games from crap clients like Origin and Uplay to Steam.

[on_and_off]

I would love this.

Could be extended to a lot of services tbh : Music Libraries in Spotify Contacts in Facebook

One of the reasons I love GOG is Connect : got a game on Steam ? Now you have it on GOG too.

[YeOakAye]

That would be great...

Assuming it would work both ways, I would consolidate, on Steam, all the games I currently have on Origin, Bethesda Launcher, Battle.Net Launcher, Epic Games Launcher, uPlay, Twitch Desktop App, a few I've forgotten, and whateverthefuck Rockstar's GTAV launcher is called.. Though that's probably not what you had in mind.

[pbhjpbhj]

You'd need to pay Steam a librarian fee, or something. People would buy games on the low cost markets with the crap management and low user numbers, then transfer to eg Steam. Steam pick up the costs of updating, managing users, etc., and the other sellers get the money from sales.