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Introducing Steam Families
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RyanEvans21
Member
You can share with 5 people before on sony console (PS3). But people abused it.
Gen.Grievous
Member
It's not like they do anything else.
MonkeyClaw36
Banned
I think you have to migrate to this new family share beta and the old one will work the way it does until this gets released.
Thick Thighs Save Lives
NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
crackajack
Member
Am I the only one thinking about Hollywood celebs parading with their newest third world country "purchase"?
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Who here has the biggest steam library and likes me? We can be family
SportsFan581
Member
Interesting. Any kind of list on what games are sharable?
Topher
Identifies as young
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OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Some people really have an irrational blind spot when it comes to everything valve does don't they? I don't get it.
OGM_Madness
Member
Sounds fair!
Now, we wait 5 years for Xbox to catch up, 10 years for Sony and 100 years for Nintenlol
Now, we wait 5 years for Xbox to catch up, 10 years for Sony and 100 years for Nintenlol
MonkeyClaw36
Banned
Not if you shared your library. If you just gave someone your account, then yes this would happen.
Topher
Identifies as young
It has been a bit ridiculous lately. Here we have a company that isn't trying to buy up the industry, isn't trying to buy up exclusives, isn't having to lay hundreds/thousand of people off, isn't suing people left and right, isn't trying to dominate market share.....basically all the shit console mega-corporations do, they ain't doing. So if the best folks can do and turn that around on them and say they do "nothing", which isn't even true, but if it were, damn sure better than engaging in all that other bullshit. They do need to make more games though, but yeah, this "irrational blind spot" when it comes to Valve is a bit absurd.
Current family sharing does not allow you to play anything when someone else is accessing/playing your library.
"Can two users share a library and both play at the same time?
No, a shared library may only be accessed by one user at a time.
When I authorize a device to lend my library to others, do I limit my own ability to access and play my games?
As the account holder, you may always access and play your games at any time. If you decide to start playing when another user is already playing one of your games, he/she will be given a few minutes to either purchase the game or quit playing."
Steam News - Steam Families is here - Steam News
Hello! We are excited to announce Steam Families is now available for all users. Steam Families is a collection of new and existing family-related features. It replaces both Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View, giving you a single location to manage which games your family can access and...
Cyberpunkd
Member
Just like that Valve revitalized PC gaming.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
It was certainly a trendsetter. I think the true gen 2 will be an even greater success.
MonkeyClaw36
Banned
Thats contradicting with what I myself experienced. Phasmaphobia was on my sons account. He was playing it and through sharing I was able to play it on my account also.It has been a bit ridiculous lately. Here we have a company that isn't trying to buy up the industry, isn't trying to buy up exclusives, isn't having to lay hundreds/thousand of people off, isn't suing people left and right, isn't trying to dominate market share.....basically all the shit console mega-corporations do, they ain't doing. So if the best folks can do and turn that around on them and say they do "nothing", which isn't even true, but if it were, damn sure better than engaging in all that other bullshit. They do need to make more games though, but yeah, this "irrational blind spot" when it comes to Valve is a bit absurd.
Current family sharing does not allow you to play anything when someone else is accessing/playing your library.
"Can two users share a library and both play at the same time?
No, a shared library may only be accessed by one user at a time.
When I authorize a device to lend my library to others, do I limit my own ability to access and play my games?
As the account holder, you may always access and play your games at any time. If you decide to start playing when another user is already playing one of your games, he/she will be given a few minutes to either purchase the game or quit playing.
"
Steam News - Steam Families is here - Steam News
Hello! We are excited to announce Steam Families is now available for all users. Steam Families is a collection of new and existing family-related features. It replaces both Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View, giving you a single location to manage which games your family can access and...store.steampowered.com
Either this was a fluke, or I did something strange to make this possible.
Topher
Identifies as young
Yeah.....I'm thinking you've got a beneficial bug going on or something. We tried game sharing in my house before and it locked out the entire library. Pretty useless until this latest change.
Guilty_AI
Member
If the owner account is playing offline, you'll be able to access the shared library without issues.
MonkeyClaw36
Banned
Ah! That would explain it! Thank you good sir!
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
I’m still looking for a sugar daddy to get me a gen 1.
Sleepwalker
Member
Actually back in the PS3 era you could share your digital library with up to 5 PS3 consoles, no country, home or IP check. Made for some really nice price dynamics for me as a broke college student. They limited it to 2 right before the PS4 launched, rip the GOAT feature.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Just like family sharing, it's more or less pointless features cuz video game publishers only have this to say - Fuck no, Gabe! We won't allow to borrow our shit, buy it again instead!
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Gamezone
Gold Member
Most publisher allow the current (old) system though. I'll be surprised to see them change their policy after this
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Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
The thing is, it's region locked, so if you have relatives or friends who live in other region, you can't give them access to games they want to play.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Not (currently) limited by IP, the only geographical limitation seems to be the people all have to live in the same country.
The actual number of games excluded is pretty small. All free-to-play games are excluded (no big deal, each person can just add the game to their account for free anyway). From my own anecdotal evidence, only about 3% of my library is excluded.
And even from THAT list of 149 games, there are three different reasons why they are excluded (that I could find)
The standard "We were told not to let you share this": (31/149 games)
Then free (but not free to play) games are excluded - this is the vast majority of mine (116/149 games):
Finally, I have a few (2/149) games that were added to my account by the developers themselves, these cannot be shared:
So - of my over 4,000 games on Steam, 0.68% of them have been specifically excluded by the publisher. 31 games out of 4,517.
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Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
That was a lot to read and I’m a lazy piece of shit. Can someone just tell me if I’ll still be able to share my game libraries with a few friends?
Krappadizzle
Member
Now which one of ya'll my family members has Returnal/Dragon's Dogma 2/Armored Core/Rogue Trader in their library?
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Region lock can't be bypassed though. The new system will be region locked which is BS. What if I want to share my games with someone I know in Ukraine?
Sniper Elite 5, Hogwarts Legacy, Psychonauts 2 and various other games can't be shared even with the old system.
Gamezone
Gold Member
So what defines region? Inside your own country?
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Yes, exactly. You can't use Family feature outside of your own country and you're region locked while using it.
Kataploom
Gold Member
This is amazing... Literally the sole reason I never left my sister or wife play my games with Family Sharing was because I couldn't then play myself, this changes everything!
Now...
Now...
Does this mean we can't have friends and they'd know it or what exactly? I have very close friends who I would like to share my games to, and I wouldn't even be changing them constantly (hell, maybe ever lol), would Valve have a problem if they play from another location/country?
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Currently, family members have to be from the same country. There aren't any IP or regional restrictions in place, but Valve also said they'll be monitoring how this is used and may change that in the future.
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
Is there a catch to this? Cause I’m now in a family that buys practically every game and it has me thinking about getting a Steam Deck. But if it’ll get limited to a single external IP or whatever like Netflix then I don’t want to spend that ~$700 on the deck.
Topher
Identifies as young
Valve said they are going to monitor and possibly make changes in the future, but I don't think they have said you must share the same IP. Only that it is limited to 6 "close" family members.
From the OP:
"To that end, as we monitor the usage of this feature, we may adjust the requirements for participating in a Steam Family or the number of members over time to keep usage in line with this intent."
You might want to wait until it comes out of beta before deciding on making that investment.
For myself, I joined the beta and added my son to my "family" in Steam. All his games just showed up immediately. Fantastic feature.
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Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
Well it’s loosely my wife and her two siblings. But it’s 3 locations with significant others like me the husband of her. It’s not like i paid to be on some awesome family in some forums.
Topher
Identifies as young
Well it’s loosely my wife and her two siblings. But it’s 3 locations with significant others like me the husband of her. It’s not like i paid to be on some awesome family in some forums.
Sounds like close family to me.
Robot Carnival
Member
so I'm adding a friend of mine into my family. but while he did get the invite, whenever he tried confirming it, he just got this message that says "a confirmation request has been sent. please approve it to join this family." but neither him nor me had received any request in email or in Steam. where should he go to approve it?