I am a little surprised, I assumed Gamestream was mostly local. If you prevent this form of sharing, each of us would have needed to purchase a copy of the game to install locally, so the publisher is potentially losing money by tolerating game streaming. Or we play a couch-coop game online with multiple Gamepads connected to that one server. We have one cheap GPU server with Hetzner and we take turns playing the games.

As-is, I am sharing one purchased copy of the game with my friends. I presume that's to avoid AI-based aimbots who would actually just recognize the enemy based on the picture.Īlso, some games outright forbid using game streaming services in their EULA, which is how pretty much everything by Blizzard & Activision got booted off Geforce NOW.Īnd if you think about it, it does make financial sense for them to forbid streaming. It's just that I could never figure out how to monetize it, so now I'm just using it for me and my friends.īut when testing it, I noticed that quite a lot of competitive games will consider it 'cheating' if you try to grab the screen in real-time.

I have a working alternative to Gamestream - both Server and Client, written in C++ - lying around here. I believe the issue might be the game publishers.

Steam link on nvidia shield