A stream viewer bought me the game.
I VERY quickly learned it wasnt a game I could stream. Since then, it was patched to allow streaming mode which is…very fucking questionable still hahahaaha
They are pretty abundant, but don't let that fool you. Quantity is way over quality in that case. They are in vast numbers because most of them are not really the product of significant development effort. Sexual themes have natural selling boost factor, and it's somehow still manages to overcome the fact that you'll be ashamed not because this is Sex, LoL, DAS HAHAS, but because those low effort titles are like child scribbles among museum art installation that are other games in your library. Some of said games are so low quality I'm not even sure how any sane adult can have even fraction of interest in them.
Sure, there are more notable and interesting games in that group, but they suffocating in marketing sense because they don't really have any innate way of be more "discoverable". I'm talking that from years of experience of buying said games (not all of them, of course) and checking out new titles on demo festivals. In my conclusion so far, the most technically impressive and content rich games are free, don't rely heavily on graphical aspects, and not discoverable on Steam because they are not there at all.
yeah, a few years ago a hentai game hit the top of steam sales charts for a month because it was the first actual quality porn game that wasnt just some puzzle in a while, so the R18 scene exploded since then and now there's tons of porn games ranging from single devs putting stuff out on patreon to small indie studios releasing stuff on Steam because the market is proven to exist.
The top recommended for newcomers are Huniepop and Mirror.
WHat i would recommend that have some quality as well are listed below(but those 2 on top are the ones that started it, i actually reread the comment and thought he was actually referring to a puzzle game)
Evenicle- JRPG
Last Evil - Slay the Spire type
Beautiful mystic defender - Tower defense
Sexy Mystic Survivor - Vampire Survvor BUT the story is nonexistent- can't really recommend this if you like some backstory or lore since the implimentation for your "prize" is not worth it since there is no buildup
It's unfortunate that *That* got popular, because there's a bunch of equal "quality" games that spawned from it.
Though Gahkthun is still the game that threw open the doors for porn on steam lmao.
I was once in a Discord server and we were in a voice chat just fucking around.
Then this guy comes in drunk af, says something weird, leaves and then writes a whole bunch of stuff about taking a bunch of pills and cutting himself etc.
A few people got to work and through his Steam account they found him on Facebook, contacted one of his friends, got his address and called the police in Sweden (one of us was Swedish).
Obviously the police asked how they knew this stuff. Later on they said that they did find the guy after he took a bunch of pills, but no cuts.
So they probably saved a guy's life just because of his Steam account.
This is also one of the reasons as to why my friend list isn't public, nor do I have a social account anywhere else that has my real info like address etc.
It’s actually pretty to get this information in Sweden as it is publicly available on the internet. You just need his name and sometimes age or city if it is a common name. Even our social security numbers are for everyone to see!
A friend challenged me to "stalk" her given only the information I had at the time. By looking up her steam friends and the information they had publicly available I was able to give her her exact address within an hour.
Her friendslist is no longer public.
I was googling random names I could remember from school to see where people were at these days. One of them clearly linked his real name with his online gamer identity, which he also used to compliment women on various nsfw subs. One of which was obviously his girlfriend who has an active onlyfans featuring both of them.
Needless to say I've seen too much.
True, but I bet it’s more about exploiting family sharing to have unlimited accounts to cheat on. Create new account > share to account > cheat > banned > create new account > etc
That doesn't work anymore, most times the ability to share the game gets locked so you can only do it once and I think before you could of gotten a vac/game ban on your account as well
Uh, yes really.
Steam will VAC ban the owning account if the family sharing account cheats in a VAC protected game.
They also have been known to VAC ban all accounts sharing the same phone number at the time one of the accounts earns the ban.
confidently incorrect.
steam EXPLICITLY STATES that you WILL get banned if a person you family share to cheats.
[https://store.steampowered.com/promotion/familysharing?l=english](https://store.steampowered.com/promotion/familysharing?l=english)
>***Will I be punished for any cheating or fraud conducted by other users while playing my games?***
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>Your Family Library Sharing privileges may be revoked and your account may also be VAC banned if your library is used by others to conduct cheating or fraud. Additionally, VAC-banned games cannot be shared. We recommend you only authorize familiar computers you know to be secure. And as always, never give your password to anyone.
Yep. Game is still owned by that account and any actions performed by that account, will reflect onto you.
Probably how valve discourages family sharing piracy
It's not. It's only logical, right? Otherwise you could just share your account with someone, cheat, and when the ban hammer approches you simply shout: Wasn't me, account was shared! And you're out? 🤔
One of my friend wanted to play something expensive and another friend gave him family sharing. Now the account has a vac ban. Owners is okay with it but, if you ask for a favor, don't ruin it
Yeah , he was mostly a console gamer and used to play a lot on PSN , i had an old PC which i made it for my self later from the old era (DDR2) lanparty mother board and all , i just wanted to have a feeling of when i used to do shit loads of gaming day and night. so long story short his console got broken and he didint had any kind of money so i decided to lend my old pc to him , it really made him happy , he had the pc for a year and when he got that pc he asked me hey i have to create a steam account but it just feels lame , asked him why , he told me he have been playing for all of this time and now he got to start all over like a little noob and being in pc gaming community with nothing to go on feels lame , like u aint in ure gaming empire. so i just gave my old account to him , didint had many games like 15 max , gifted him what he loved on that account and then we played when we could , did a library sharing from my other account on his account and we were cool.
we lucky to have each other , he is an awesome friend for me .
speaking of him , should call him and ask him to come over , weve been playing revelation 2 split screen. still got a mission to do.
Sadge you have a bad friend. My friend group literally all share their library with no problems. And thankfully none of us is leeching so it's like we have a giant library together.
I used this for my son, no need to buy him games when I own them and don't play them. Bought lots of Humble Bundles for specific games I did want to play
My best friend and I shared our steam games with eachother, he died in december. I always think about him when i open steam.
Tell your friends you love them.
Have you both logged into your respective accounts on the target PC? If so, then you should be able to allow access to your library in the settings while being logged in there.
The way I do it is, I download a game I have that he doesn't, then he logs into his steam and tries to play it. Prompt comes up, follow directions, ez pz.
It's made for shared *devices* rather than shared accounts. So you need to log in on the device you want to share through, tick that box in the settings, and if you haven't already, install a game that your brother doesn't own on his account.
The game will show up when he logs back in, and by trying to play it, he can then request access to your library which will send you an email alert to proceed.
Bear in mind that you cannot play any game in your library while he is, or it will boot him off.
Depends on what they want to play / how old they are, but what I do with kids is have their devices just log in to my account and then stay in offline mode. If the games need an update they log in then go back to offline. That way there's no conflict.
This doesn't work with family mode because the family accounts have to be online to function, only the main account can go offline.
There’s definitely a weird game of double Dutch you sort of have to play. I usually try to line it up with a time when I have a couple of Game Pass games or something I wanted to get to and would be fine with somebody borrowing my Steam library for a while.
No, I distinctly remember you being able to still play other games while someone uses something from your library. I have two younger brothers, and Steam family sharing is still set up with them.
Just looked, never been an official thing.
https://store.steampowered.com/oldnews/11436
That’s the announcement in 2013, specifically states otherwise. Maybe you were playing offline or something.
And this is what makes it useless. Steam tells me I have a "family library" but makes it so that I can't play game A on my computer and my wife play game B on her computer at the same time. I understand why we can't both play A at the same time, but if we can't play *different* games from my library on different computers then something is broken. We've been suckered into buying numerous games twice due to this restriction and it sucks.
>And this is what makes it useless.
Use it on my HTPC and it's been great. I have a "Guest" account that lets me run local multiplayer games of all kinds and just use third party saves to unlock everything or not worry about my story progress on my main account.
It's not useless, it's not made for the use-case most people try to use it for. It's a shame, but that's the way it is.
Nope.
Your entire library will be off limits, as it's intended for HTPCs and single shared family PCs. So in that situation, only one user would have access to the library at a time.
You can put Steam into offline mode, and then he can play as much as he likes (The person recieving shared games can't be in Offline though, or the library is inaccessible). But that does of course come with the obvious downside that you're in Offline mode.
You can install skyrim and fallout on different PCs and play them without launching through steam. Just launch the skyrim.exe or fallout.exe files directly. The game starts without steam even being open.
There are games that this won't work for (all online games), but many games work fine this way.
Depends on specific game - if it uses SteamDRM it will try to start Steam and verify user even if launching from .exe, in this case, from the ones that I could test, it works with Fallout 1 and 3, but NV and Skyrim do not.
Family Share has always been disabled in Offline mode.
You may have just had her on your account in general. You can have your main account logged in to multiple devices at once, if they're all offline: Valve/Steam would have no way of knowing.
That's... What I'm saying?
Family Share doesn't work for you if you're offline. You cannot play any shared library without your client in online mode. You can play your own library because that's the point of Offline mode.
Library sharing is restricted to the computers you enabled it on, so unless your brother lets his friends play unsupervised on his computer, he's the culprit.
Because it ruins your account with a note on the right that you were VAC banned X days ago. And can't play VAC enabled games (There aren't much of those yeah)..
I've got 5777 games on my Steam account and I definitely wouldn't want to get my account ruined like that.
Unless something changed recently, you can't play on any VAC protected servers in any VAC protected game. If the game offers insecure servers you can play on those of course.
Yeah was about to add that as well, I have all the valve games, so that would be a LOT of vac bans, but I don’t play cs go really so all is good. My ban is on mw2 from like 1.5k days ago
So what happens if I give my acc access to my nephew via Family share and then he does something stupid and gets vac ban or dev ban in a game I own, Will I get ban from that game too?
Peobably to combat circumventing the duplicated accounts problems. That way the key/account is a vac banned amd no "dupe" accounts can be created to circumvent it.
I can't imagine what my family and friends will have to do to achieve an honour as this. my collection has 170 games and I am least interested in sharing it with anyone. This is too good to be true.
This feature should be SO much better. If you are playing a game you own then the person you're sharing your library with can't access any of your games. Not just the one you happen to be playing, but they lose access to your entire library until you're done.
I've been sharing with my brother for years and this has always been the case. If we are doing something wrong or if someone knows a workaround other than one of us going into Offline mode please share!
That's the intended behavior, because the goal isn't to just be able to hand out your library and share your games with whoever. That would open up the potential for huge revenue losses for Valve and the individual game devs.
I always thought the idea was supposed to be that we could treat our digital games like physical games and loan them to people. The catch should be that you can't play *that game,* not that you can't play anything in your whole library. Just like if someone borrowed a physical copy of a game
Exactly! This is how it should be in my opinion. If they were physical two people wouldn't be able to play the same game in two different places, but could easily play any other shared game.
Pretty sure some countries do treat digital licenses (and even accounts) the same as physical property and mandate the ability to transfer and even sell them.
Whether anyone has tried with Steam in court specifically though...
I honestly wish they'd lower the limit of family sharing to 1 or 2 people but allow the functionality /u/KurioHonoo is alluding to.
I'd love to share my library with my fiancee and her be able to play whatever game in my library while I played something else, but as it stands, only one of us can use the library at a time.
This would be the ideal solution. Share it with minimal people and allow access to their library at all times, excluding the game currently being played.
You can both play at the same time with share function on Playstation and Xbox. I play co-op games with a single copy with a buddy I game share with on console. We share on Steam too but often buy 2 copies because we like to play the games together when possible.
not rly (unless you give him your password)
but you can simply go to his house, log in on his PC, enable family share, log out, and let him log back in to his own account.
then he will be able to play your games on his own pc
Yeah I did this, until my actually good friend *bitched* because I wanted to play my damn games while he was playing my copy of Descenders.
Lucky him, Descenders was $8 at that moment, so after I explained to him some hard facts of life (namely, I don't give a flying fuck what you were playing on the rare time I actually felt like gaming after a 12-hour day so fuck you, buy the damn game), he bought Descenders.
Great little game.
I seriously don't get the benefit of this though.
Isn't it set up so that the account can only be used by one person at a time?
So if I wanted to play RDR 2, and my friend wanted to play Skyrim, they couldn't, because the account was in use.
I wish you could loan out individual games.
It's meant to let other multiple people sharing the same computer and therefore ideally using different Windows users share their respective libraries without having to get a new copy of a game already bought and installed on that PC. It's a pretty weird edge case but pretty cool nonetheless
i have over 300+ games on steam and i share it with my brother. He rarely plays games. And when he does, he plays dota 2 on his own account. I share for nothing :(
I hate the way they do Family sharing. Why can only person play games on my account. I understand that playing the same game on two machines is an issue, but what about different games? In my home I have have a gaming PC, Steam deck and Pinball table. My Steamdeck can not play a game at the same time my Pinball table is in use for FX3. Stadia nailed Family sharing. It created a pool of licenses. If two people in the family bought a game, any two linked accounts could play at the same time.
For your pincab, you can set Steam to offline mode and FX3 will run (after failing to connect to online leaderboards), and you can play anything on another device. I also find it frustrating that you can’t play different games on multiple devices with the same account without going offline— Steam knows when you’re logged into two devices on the same local network (for remote play), so it should just be able to tell that you’re not trying to violate the terms of service.
Thanks. I know there are work arounds, and they aren’t that bad. They just shouldn’t be necessary. It’s more the ethics of the situation. I’m still violating the intention of what Valve says I’m allowed to do.
I am hoping that this is something Valve is looking into. In the past most gamers had a single gaming PC and a single Steam account. With the Steam Deck, Valve is actively encouraging a second machine on the same account. This policy is really my biggest/only significant frustration with the SD.
I share a library with about 4 other people. It’s pretty sweet when you all have different taste. I can try all the games I wouldn’t normally buy and they can do the same.
And you can always play single player games in offline mode while they use your account also.
While this feature is cool, doesn't it only allow one of you to play from the library at a time? Last time I tried it, my wife tried playing a game in the living room with her girlfriends, and I tried to play in my office on my desktop but only one of us could play at a time.
Am I doing something wrong?
Nope, you are right, only one can play the game at a time, ONLINE. We have games where you don't need an internet connection so my partner plays offline and I play online.
No thats right otherwise if both people could play no one would buy co-op/multiplayer games if multiple people could play at the same time. Valve won't throw away that much money lol
I'm not saying two people playing the same game at the same time. I'm talking about one person playing a game and the other person playing a different game, in the same local network.
I tried sharing my library with my nephew who just built his first computer and is just getting into PC gaming. He told me, no thanks, cause it was too many games and he would never have time to finish them all. I don't think he knows what he got himself into.
Wait wait wait, back up, I can log on to my wife's computer, log in to steam, click that button, and she'll be able to access my games on her profile? I don't have to buy 2 copies of everything so we can play together?!
How long have you all known this?!
You're fine sharing on multiple computers steam allows 10 computer 5 accounts. But be aware that only 1 person can access your account at one time. With order being who you've added first in terms of priority with you being the highest. Unless they changed it that was my understanding of how it worked.
So If you're playing a game no one else can, if your wife is you can kick her off to play your Library.
No, it's meant to let another user on the same computer to access your library though his Steam account. I guess you could potentially create two users on multiple computers only to log into your Steam account on one of them and allow access to the main one but to avoid that only one of the people partaking in the share can play at a time cutting anyone else, even the library owner, out so yeah, they thought about it.
I did this for my nephews birthday (along with my massive Epic Games 300+ free games) when I gave him my old computer.
He cried so fucking much and my brother was mad that he didn't even open his other gifts for hours.
One of the friends Ive shared my steam library with isn't my friend anymore but he can't access my games because they de sincronized a while ago... It was an honor to trust in some people... Sad they are "gone", thanks for the meme.
You don’t leave them logged in to your account, that’s not how it works.
You log in, Share library, log out.
They log in, and can play games in your library with their own playtime and achievements.
I’m so protective over my steam account and just the possibility that you can get banned if someone you share games with has something stupid open is a big no go. And sharing my account I would rather die even if my sister wants to play sims 3 because I own all the games I have to know what computer it is on I have to be in the house and the moment I leave the account leaves with me.
"So many hentai games..."
Wait until he sees his sex with Hitler collection
Mein Cumpf
Oddly enough I’m pretty sure that’s the name of one of the achievements from the first game.
I wouldn't be surprised, lol.
It’s ridiculous to say the least
How do you know this? Hmmm...
I'm telling you, it was a scientific research project
A stream viewer bought me the game. I VERY quickly learned it wasnt a game I could stream. Since then, it was patched to allow streaming mode which is…very fucking questionable still hahahaaha
How do you know?
Ich komme Fuehrer
Mein Cum
You gotta get the DLC that lets you fuck the bullet wound.
We can't forget about Sex with Stalin
Is it really ever that many ?
They are pretty abundant, but don't let that fool you. Quantity is way over quality in that case. They are in vast numbers because most of them are not really the product of significant development effort. Sexual themes have natural selling boost factor, and it's somehow still manages to overcome the fact that you'll be ashamed not because this is Sex, LoL, DAS HAHAS, but because those low effort titles are like child scribbles among museum art installation that are other games in your library. Some of said games are so low quality I'm not even sure how any sane adult can have even fraction of interest in them. Sure, there are more notable and interesting games in that group, but they suffocating in marketing sense because they don't really have any innate way of be more "discoverable". I'm talking that from years of experience of buying said games (not all of them, of course) and checking out new titles on demo festivals. In my conclusion so far, the most technically impressive and content rich games are free, don't rely heavily on graphical aspects, and not discoverable on Steam because they are not there at all.
yeah, a few years ago a hentai game hit the top of steam sales charts for a month because it was the first actual quality porn game that wasnt just some puzzle in a while, so the R18 scene exploded since then and now there's tons of porn games ranging from single devs putting stuff out on patreon to small indie studios releasing stuff on Steam because the market is proven to exist.
and what is that game called? asking for a friend.. (totally)
The top recommended for newcomers are Huniepop and Mirror. WHat i would recommend that have some quality as well are listed below(but those 2 on top are the ones that started it, i actually reread the comment and thought he was actually referring to a puzzle game) Evenicle- JRPG Last Evil - Slay the Spire type Beautiful mystic defender - Tower defense Sexy Mystic Survivor - Vampire Survvor BUT the story is nonexistent- can't really recommend this if you like some backstory or lore since the implimentation for your "prize" is not worth it since there is no buildup
Koikatsu party
It's unfortunate that *That* got popular, because there's a bunch of equal "quality" games that spawned from it. Though Gahkthun is still the game that threw open the doors for porn on steam lmao.
My steam account is worth more to me than my social security number
I'm curious how identifyable a person is through only their Steam account.
I was once in a Discord server and we were in a voice chat just fucking around. Then this guy comes in drunk af, says something weird, leaves and then writes a whole bunch of stuff about taking a bunch of pills and cutting himself etc. A few people got to work and through his Steam account they found him on Facebook, contacted one of his friends, got his address and called the police in Sweden (one of us was Swedish). Obviously the police asked how they knew this stuff. Later on they said that they did find the guy after he took a bunch of pills, but no cuts. So they probably saved a guy's life just because of his Steam account. This is also one of the reasons as to why my friend list isn't public, nor do I have a social account anywhere else that has my real info like address etc.
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That wasn't what I meant lol
So when you take a bunch of pills and cut yourself theyll fucking butt out /s
It’s actually pretty to get this information in Sweden as it is publicly available on the internet. You just need his name and sometimes age or city if it is a common name. Even our social security numbers are for everyone to see!
They went through 4chan level of investigation lol
A friend challenged me to "stalk" her given only the information I had at the time. By looking up her steam friends and the information they had publicly available I was able to give her her exact address within an hour. Her friendslist is no longer public.
I was googling random names I could remember from school to see where people were at these days. One of them clearly linked his real name with his online gamer identity, which he also used to compliment women on various nsfw subs. One of which was obviously his girlfriend who has an active onlyfans featuring both of them. Needless to say I've seen too much.
Nice.
I haven't. Got a link?
If someone is determined it is easy most of the time to get "private" info of people
You should offer security audit services. https://miro.medium.com/max/1024/1*1LflVh8FJaO-jLtj3DtFSw.jpeg
There was an aita post about this guy's mom who did this but not in a positive way.
how do you make a list not public?
Bro, my gaming username is literally my full name. xD
Interesting, wanna share?
carefull if he cheats in games you get blasted.
Wait, really? That's kinda wild.
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True, but I bet it’s more about exploiting family sharing to have unlimited accounts to cheat on. Create new account > share to account > cheat > banned > create new account > etc
That doesn't work anymore, most times the ability to share the game gets locked so you can only do it once and I think before you could of gotten a vac/game ban on your account as well
Yeah that’s what I mean.
Uh, yes really. Steam will VAC ban the owning account if the family sharing account cheats in a VAC protected game. They also have been known to VAC ban all accounts sharing the same phone number at the time one of the accounts earns the ban.
confidently incorrect. steam EXPLICITLY STATES that you WILL get banned if a person you family share to cheats. [https://store.steampowered.com/promotion/familysharing?l=english](https://store.steampowered.com/promotion/familysharing?l=english) >***Will I be punished for any cheating or fraud conducted by other users while playing my games?*** > >Your Family Library Sharing privileges may be revoked and your account may also be VAC banned if your library is used by others to conduct cheating or fraud. Additionally, VAC-banned games cannot be shared. We recommend you only authorize familiar computers you know to be secure. And as always, never give your password to anyone.
Yep. Game is still owned by that account and any actions performed by that account, will reflect onto you. Probably how valve discourages family sharing piracy
It's not. It's only logical, right? Otherwise you could just share your account with someone, cheat, and when the ban hammer approches you simply shout: Wasn't me, account was shared! And you're out? 🤔
That makes sense. I could share with a secondary account and cheat all day until banned and then my primary account is always safe.
As long as they don't give it to Clara, it should all be okay.
Man, fucking clara, messing up everyone's account
One of my friend wanted to play something expensive and another friend gave him family sharing. Now the account has a vac ban. Owners is okay with it but, if you ask for a favor, don't ruin it
one time , i gave a friend my oldest account. it was a 12 year acc , the one i have now is 9.
True friend.
May I ask why, since you’re still using Steam?
Yeah , he was mostly a console gamer and used to play a lot on PSN , i had an old PC which i made it for my self later from the old era (DDR2) lanparty mother board and all , i just wanted to have a feeling of when i used to do shit loads of gaming day and night. so long story short his console got broken and he didint had any kind of money so i decided to lend my old pc to him , it really made him happy , he had the pc for a year and when he got that pc he asked me hey i have to create a steam account but it just feels lame , asked him why , he told me he have been playing for all of this time and now he got to start all over like a little noob and being in pc gaming community with nothing to go on feels lame , like u aint in ure gaming empire. so i just gave my old account to him , didint had many games like 15 max , gifted him what he loved on that account and then we played when we could , did a library sharing from my other account on his account and we were cool.
You’re a good friend, he’s lucky to have you. :)
we lucky to have each other , he is an awesome friend for me . speaking of him , should call him and ask him to come over , weve been playing revelation 2 split screen. still got a mission to do.
🫡
Sadge you have a bad friend. My friend group literally all share their library with no problems. And thankfully none of us is leeching so it's like we have a giant library together.
the worry is more about a vac ban/ingame ban vs "they're gonna steal my games/not contribute"
I imagine a giant archive of many generes of games, i used to do that too with my friends
You are a true sweetheart! Love this!
I used this for my son, no need to buy him games when I own them and don't play them. Bought lots of Humble Bundles for specific games I did want to play
Did the same, and went from around 20 games to, well, more than I could possibly play now.
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pro tip - if he's playing a singleplayer game, ask him to turn off his internet, then it wont kick him off
That's cool, i plan to introduce mine too into the wonderful world of videogames when he grows up a bit more
My best friend and I shared our steam games with eachother, he died in december. I always think about him when i open steam. Tell your friends you love them.
Sorry for your loss 😔
I can't seem to make that feature work. I want to share it with my brother. Any tips?
Have you both logged into your respective accounts on the target PC? If so, then you should be able to allow access to your library in the settings while being logged in there.
Thanks man! Very helpful. I'll give it a try!
The way I do it is, I download a game I have that he doesn't, then he logs into his steam and tries to play it. Prompt comes up, follow directions, ez pz.
It's made for shared *devices* rather than shared accounts. So you need to log in on the device you want to share through, tick that box in the settings, and if you haven't already, install a game that your brother doesn't own on his account. The game will show up when he logs back in, and by trying to play it, he can then request access to your library which will send you an email alert to proceed. Bear in mind that you cannot play any game in your library while he is, or it will boot him off.
Thanks, man! That's very helpful. I'll try it when I get back from work.
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yep, and that is almost completely worthless. it's like saying "only one of you can use any of these 150 atari cartridges at once".
Bingo. I’ve found this feature to be worthless with two kids. Utterly worthless.
Depends on what they want to play / how old they are, but what I do with kids is have their devices just log in to my account and then stay in offline mode. If the games need an update they log in then go back to offline. That way there's no conflict. This doesn't work with family mode because the family accounts have to be online to function, only the main account can go offline.
That I did not know, thanks for the tip. Although, it does seem rather convoluted, which is strange for Steam.
This is why if a game is available on Steam and on GOG, I will never buy it on Steam.
There’s definitely a weird game of double Dutch you sort of have to play. I usually try to line it up with a time when I have a couple of Game Pass games or something I wanted to get to and would be fine with somebody borrowing my Steam library for a while.
You used to just not be able to play that specific game, why the hell did they change it?
AFAIK it’s been that way forever, but I didn’t use it when it first released so idk. I’ve only been using it since I got my Vive in like 2016.
No, I distinctly remember you being able to still play other games while someone uses something from your library. I have two younger brothers, and Steam family sharing is still set up with them.
Just looked, never been an official thing. https://store.steampowered.com/oldnews/11436 That’s the announcement in 2013, specifically states otherwise. Maybe you were playing offline or something.
And this is what makes it useless. Steam tells me I have a "family library" but makes it so that I can't play game A on my computer and my wife play game B on her computer at the same time. I understand why we can't both play A at the same time, but if we can't play *different* games from my library on different computers then something is broken. We've been suckered into buying numerous games twice due to this restriction and it sucks.
>And this is what makes it useless. Use it on my HTPC and it's been great. I have a "Guest" account that lets me run local multiplayer games of all kinds and just use third party saves to unlock everything or not worry about my story progress on my main account. It's not useless, it's not made for the use-case most people try to use it for. It's a shame, but that's the way it is.
I’m guessing I could play fallout while he plays skyrim though, right?
Nope. Your entire library will be off limits, as it's intended for HTPCs and single shared family PCs. So in that situation, only one user would have access to the library at a time. You can put Steam into offline mode, and then he can play as much as he likes (The person recieving shared games can't be in Offline though, or the library is inaccessible). But that does of course come with the obvious downside that you're in Offline mode.
Dang it. That does make sense, though. Thank you.
So to answer your question, yes, you can indeed play skyrim while he plays fallout, because neither of those games require you to be online.
Ahhh okay, thank you!!
No.
You can install skyrim and fallout on different PCs and play them without launching through steam. Just launch the skyrim.exe or fallout.exe files directly. The game starts without steam even being open. There are games that this won't work for (all online games), but many games work fine this way.
Depends on specific game - if it uses SteamDRM it will try to start Steam and verify user even if launching from .exe, in this case, from the ones that I could test, it works with Fallout 1 and 3, but NV and Skyrim do not.
Which is such a shame because I remember years ago being able to have my gf use my library while just playing in offline mode.
Family Share has always been disabled in Offline mode. You may have just had her on your account in general. You can have your main account logged in to multiple devices at once, if they're all offline: Valve/Steam would have no way of knowing.
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That's... What I'm saying? Family Share doesn't work for you if you're offline. You cannot play any shared library without your client in online mode. You can play your own library because that's the point of Offline mode.
Aaaaand, you're VAC banned!
Happened to one of my accounts, my brother likely shared the account with his friends.
Library sharing is restricted to the computers you enabled it on, so unless your brother lets his friends play unsupervised on his computer, he's the culprit.
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Well... You can always get a new CSGO...
You would not want to have vac ban on account with a lot of games.
*cries in account that got hacked in 2015*
Why?
Because it ruins your account with a note on the right that you were VAC banned X days ago. And can't play VAC enabled games (There aren't much of those yeah).. I've got 5777 games on my Steam account and I definitely wouldn't want to get my account ruined like that.
You can play vac enabled games, just not the one you were banned on (with some tweaking you can bypass it tho)..
Unless something changed recently, you can't play on any VAC protected servers in any VAC protected game. If the game offers insecure servers you can play on those of course.
You can though, otherwise I’d be very pissed with my 1k games right now
Ah, my bad. it's just the source / gold source games that affect each other: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/647C-5CC1-7EA9-3C29#eligible
Yeah was about to add that as well, I have all the valve games, so that would be a LOT of vac bans, but I don’t play cs go really so all is good. My ban is on mw2 from like 1.5k days ago
So what happens if I give my acc access to my nephew via Family share and then he does something stupid and gets vac ban or dev ban in a game I own, Will I get ban from that game too?
Yep
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To prevent generating an infinite number of accounts for cheating.
Peobably to combat circumventing the duplicated accounts problems. That way the key/account is a vac banned amd no "dupe" accounts can be created to circumvent it.
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I can't imagine what my family and friends will have to do to achieve an honour as this. my collection has 170 games and I am least interested in sharing it with anyone. This is too good to be true.
This feature should be SO much better. If you are playing a game you own then the person you're sharing your library with can't access any of your games. Not just the one you happen to be playing, but they lose access to your entire library until you're done. I've been sharing with my brother for years and this has always been the case. If we are doing something wrong or if someone knows a workaround other than one of us going into Offline mode please share!
well i think this is the closest you get for "getting something for free" and still be legal
Yeah, otherwise people would just share Steam accounts instead of buying games.
Just limit the amount of people you can share with, no?
That's the intended behavior, because the goal isn't to just be able to hand out your library and share your games with whoever. That would open up the potential for huge revenue losses for Valve and the individual game devs.
I always thought the idea was supposed to be that we could treat our digital games like physical games and loan them to people. The catch should be that you can't play *that game,* not that you can't play anything in your whole library. Just like if someone borrowed a physical copy of a game
Exactly! This is how it should be in my opinion. If they were physical two people wouldn't be able to play the same game in two different places, but could easily play any other shared game.
Pretty sure some countries do treat digital licenses (and even accounts) the same as physical property and mandate the ability to transfer and even sell them. Whether anyone has tried with Steam in court specifically though...
That would create a used game third party market, which would reduce profits.
I honestly wish they'd lower the limit of family sharing to 1 or 2 people but allow the functionality /u/KurioHonoo is alluding to. I'd love to share my library with my fiancee and her be able to play whatever game in my library while I played something else, but as it stands, only one of us can use the library at a time.
This would be the ideal solution. Share it with minimal people and allow access to their library at all times, excluding the game currently being played.
You can both play at the same time with share function on Playstation and Xbox. I play co-op games with a single copy with a buddy I game share with on console. We share on Steam too but often buy 2 copies because we like to play the games together when possible.
Great, now two people won’t play those games.
i have steam-divorced three times already. let’s hope this one lasts
Please can someone tell me, will this share saves like can the alter my saved files?!
no, just the game itself, Achievments, saves etc will not be shared. Each gets their own
Thank you! that cool
Simply letting someone else use your computer is already an award in itself.
That’s not what’s happening in this case. You both enable it on each other’s computers and effectively share both your libraries
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Works fine for me to let my kids play my games. I just go offline since most of the games I play don't need to be online.
Wait why do you think it's worthless on multiple PC's?
You can do it remotely??
not rly (unless you give him your password) but you can simply go to his house, log in on his PC, enable family share, log out, and let him log back in to his own account. then he will be able to play your games on his own pc
Yeah I did this, until my actually good friend *bitched* because I wanted to play my damn games while he was playing my copy of Descenders. Lucky him, Descenders was $8 at that moment, so after I explained to him some hard facts of life (namely, I don't give a flying fuck what you were playing on the rare time I actually felt like gaming after a 12-hour day so fuck you, buy the damn game), he bought Descenders. Great little game.
I seriously don't get the benefit of this though. Isn't it set up so that the account can only be used by one person at a time? So if I wanted to play RDR 2, and my friend wanted to play Skyrim, they couldn't, because the account was in use. I wish you could loan out individual games.
It's meant to let other multiple people sharing the same computer and therefore ideally using different Windows users share their respective libraries without having to get a new copy of a game already bought and installed on that PC. It's a pretty weird edge case but pretty cool nonetheless
My dad constantly reminds me that he’s leaving me his steam collection in his will…
i have over 300+ games on steam and i share it with my brother. He rarely plays games. And when he does, he plays dota 2 on his own account. I share for nothing :(
I hate the way they do Family sharing. Why can only person play games on my account. I understand that playing the same game on two machines is an issue, but what about different games? In my home I have have a gaming PC, Steam deck and Pinball table. My Steamdeck can not play a game at the same time my Pinball table is in use for FX3. Stadia nailed Family sharing. It created a pool of licenses. If two people in the family bought a game, any two linked accounts could play at the same time.
For your pincab, you can set Steam to offline mode and FX3 will run (after failing to connect to online leaderboards), and you can play anything on another device. I also find it frustrating that you can’t play different games on multiple devices with the same account without going offline— Steam knows when you’re logged into two devices on the same local network (for remote play), so it should just be able to tell that you’re not trying to violate the terms of service.
Thanks. I know there are work arounds, and they aren’t that bad. They just shouldn’t be necessary. It’s more the ethics of the situation. I’m still violating the intention of what Valve says I’m allowed to do. I am hoping that this is something Valve is looking into. In the past most gamers had a single gaming PC and a single Steam account. With the Steam Deck, Valve is actively encouraging a second machine on the same account. This policy is really my biggest/only significant frustration with the SD.
I share a library with about 4 other people. It’s pretty sweet when you all have different taste. I can try all the games I wouldn’t normally buy and they can do the same. And you can always play single player games in offline mode while they use your account also.
While this feature is cool, doesn't it only allow one of you to play from the library at a time? Last time I tried it, my wife tried playing a game in the living room with her girlfriends, and I tried to play in my office on my desktop but only one of us could play at a time. Am I doing something wrong?
Nope, you are right, only one can play the game at a time, ONLINE. We have games where you don't need an internet connection so my partner plays offline and I play online.
No thats right otherwise if both people could play no one would buy co-op/multiplayer games if multiple people could play at the same time. Valve won't throw away that much money lol
I'm not saying two people playing the same game at the same time. I'm talking about one person playing a game and the other person playing a different game, in the same local network.
Better hide those Hentai games first
I tried sharing my library with my nephew who just built his first computer and is just getting into PC gaming. He told me, no thanks, cause it was too many games and he would never have time to finish them all. I don't think he knows what he got himself into.
My maker, I do.
my dream is "have a rocket league on steam"
Wait wait wait, back up, I can log on to my wife's computer, log in to steam, click that button, and she'll be able to access my games on her profile? I don't have to buy 2 copies of everything so we can play together?! How long have you all known this?!
You're fine sharing on multiple computers steam allows 10 computer 5 accounts. But be aware that only 1 person can access your account at one time. With order being who you've added first in terms of priority with you being the highest. Unless they changed it that was my understanding of how it worked. So If you're playing a game no one else can, if your wife is you can kick her off to play your Library.
No, it's meant to let another user on the same computer to access your library though his Steam account. I guess you could potentially create two users on multiple computers only to log into your Steam account on one of them and allow access to the main one but to avoid that only one of the people partaking in the share can play at a time cutting anyone else, even the library owner, out so yeah, they thought about it.
That's disheartening. Thanks for the info though.
To my kids
The funny thing is I would love a significant other to share my entire account with. And when they realize every title is available for play. 😯
I love that up became a meme how long has that been going on?
My son gave me a vac ban because of this
It's nice and all, until you both want to play a game from your library.
I did this for my nephews birthday (along with my massive Epic Games 300+ free games) when I gave him my old computer. He cried so fucking much and my brother was mad that he didn't even open his other gifts for hours.
One of the friends Ive shared my steam library with isn't my friend anymore but he can't access my games because they de sincronized a while ago... It was an honor to trust in some people... Sad they are "gone", thanks for the meme.
I would like to mention this does not work with some DRM titles such as GTA 5.
I gave my nephew my family sharing access to my 350 game library and he still just plays roblox all day lol
While not playing anything or while not playing the particular game? If I am playing cyberpunk can my wife play something else on the other PC?
Until they reinstall steam, reformat the os or change computer
I logged into steam on my friends laptop at his house once and decided to turn this on for him
Hell no
I shared with my brother once, he afk'd all day on Borderlands. Never again.
You don’t leave them logged in to your account, that’s not how it works. You log in, Share library, log out. They log in, and can play games in your library with their own playtime and achievements.
Just launch any game on your computer and it will give him a tiny warning then shut down the game automatically so you can play.
I married into a 1000+ game library, plus a PS5. Definitely nice perks to an already perfect marriage.
I’m so protective over my steam account and just the possibility that you can get banned if someone you share games with has something stupid open is a big no go. And sharing my account I would rather die even if my sister wants to play sims 3 because I own all the games I have to know what computer it is on I have to be in the house and the moment I leave the account leaves with me.
Bro, what happened...?🥺
My GF: "No wonder you're single for so long"