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Steam Family Sharing Thread: Share games that you will never play.
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Same here, this Steam Family share is too good to be true in its current state.
Valtýr;85798813 said:
Well you only have one copy, it makes sense, but remember there's always offline mode.
I am wondering if GAF will be able to help, or have any ideas that a friend and I are having.
We have authorized my PC on his account, and I have access to his games and am in the process of installing a few right now. Awesome!
However, we has authorized his PC on my account (and I can see this in the Family Sharing settings), yet my games are not appearing on his steam account. He's tried restarting Steam, we have tried re-authorizing his machine on my account, but still no luck.
Any ideas? Thanks.
We have authorized my PC on his account, and I have access to his games and am in the process of installing a few right now. Awesome!
However, we has authorized his PC on my account (and I can see this in the Family Sharing settings), yet my games are not appearing on his steam account. He's tried restarting Steam, we have tried re-authorizing his machine on my account, but still no luck.
Any ideas? Thanks.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong or not understanding something here on how this works exactly.
I got accepted to the beta, so now I see under Steam > Settings > Account (tab) > Manage Family Sharing & Devices. I went to my brother's computer, signed into Steam with my credentials, and added his PC to my list of devices (It shows up with his PC name and Authorized, not used yet).
So I sign out and have my brother sign in, but he doesn't see anything to do with my library. I'ts probably some thing stupid I'm missing, but every time I search for an answer, I keep getting everybody referencing the Steam page with the FAQ, and that is not answering my question.
I got accepted to the beta, so now I see under Steam > Settings > Account (tab) > Manage Family Sharing & Devices. I went to my brother's computer, signed into Steam with my credentials, and added his PC to my list of devices (It shows up with his PC name and Authorized, not used yet).
So I sign out and have my brother sign in, but he doesn't see anything to do with my library. I'ts probably some thing stupid I'm missing, but every time I search for an answer, I keep getting everybody referencing the Steam page with the FAQ, and that is not answering my question.
I lend a friend a GTA V disc for 360 and I continue to play a Saints Row 4 disc on my 360. That scenario is not possible using Steam Family Sharing. Any game I start to play will kick someone off no matter what they are playing.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
But with Steam you're also borrowing the platform. It's like giving your friend your 360 and all your games and then being upset that you can't boot up Saints Row 4. (I recognize your PC is still there, but your PC is not the platform here.)
I really don't think Valve is going to implement a system that gives any more leeway than the one they have currently does. They still want to push you to buy games every once and a while.
One thing I'm not a huge fan of is the way it only lists a game once in your entire set of libraries. So, for instance, Friend A owns Borderlands 2 and Friend B owns it as well, but Steam only lists it under Friend B's account, so I can't play co-op with Friend B because it always kicks me out of his library.
I don't think I got any notification or email for this, but I'm in the beta after joining the group for it a while ago. Check Steam -> settings -> manage family sharing and devices.
Is this still an issue? All my friends do is play Awesomenauts. That would be a major bummer if we can't do that and participate in sharing as well.
edit: How can I authenticate other computers without giving away my login information?
Is this still an issue? All my friends do is play Awesomenauts. That would be a major bummer if we can't do that and participate in sharing as well.
edit: How can I authenticate other computers without giving away my login information?
Still an issue. As an example I've got two friends with Resident Evil: Revelations, but it's only listed under one of them.
As for your second question, there isn't a way apart from going to their house, logging into your account on their computer and authenticating it there and then.
It's worth noting you can just change your password to something, give it to the person, let them sign in, and then when they're done authenticating you can just change it back to what you had it as.
Remote control with programs alike Teamviewer.
Not sure regarding collections, but some games can't be shared. Could be that rather than an issue with collections.
I think all steamworks games are shareable currently, none of the sonic games use other means of DRM.
Any answers for this question? Otherwise, how does Steam know what's the master account/owner?
Devices have to be manually authorised, including your usual PC, at which point the libraries of accounts local to that PC that have Family Sharing and have authorised said system are automatically shared.
I've also been having this issue. My brother has informed me that he could only purchase my games and I've just had that happen to me with his games. Hopefully that gets fixed soon.
I have the same problem with the shared game from a friend of mine. Every so often I lose the connection to his library. Because I have one game of him installed, I still see this game in my library and can ask for new access to his library. Once he grants it, I can again see everything. Don't know what's causing this, he's not having problems with my library.
I play Awesomenauts on a team of me, Bob, and Charlie.
I shared my Steam library with Bob today. Surprisingly, we could still play Awesomenauts! The glitch where it would count Bob's Awesomenauts game as belonging to me (preventing us from playing at the same time) is no longer present!
I shared my Steam library with Bob today. Surprisingly, we could still play Awesomenauts! The glitch where it would count Bob's Awesomenauts game as belonging to me (preventing us from playing at the same time) is no longer present!
ok quick couple questions. im usually really good at this stuff, but for some reason this is making my head hurt.
my friend in real life wants to play my copy of The Wolf Among Us. we are steam friends. i got into the family sharing beta.
am i supposed to log into steam on his computer, opt in to the beta client, and authorize that computer? then i can log out and he will have access to my games? if thats so, how do i get access to his games, if hes not in the beta?
does he really get booted out of The Wolf Among Us if i try to boot ANY game from my library? i figured it would only be if i tried to play TWAU...
i swear i've read the FAQs like four times and can't get my head around this thing...
my friend in real life wants to play my copy of The Wolf Among Us. we are steam friends. i got into the family sharing beta.
am i supposed to log into steam on his computer, opt in to the beta client, and authorize that computer? then i can log out and he will have access to my games? if thats so, how do i get access to his games, if hes not in the beta?
does he really get booted out of The Wolf Among Us if i try to boot ANY game from my library? i figured it would only be if i tried to play TWAU...
i swear i've read the FAQs like four times and can't get my head around this thing...
He will get access to your games if you authorize your library on his pc, you will not get access to his library in return. Your steps are correct.
He will be given 5 minutes to get out of the game when you launch a game from your library, not limited to TWAU.
It should just be in the steam settings, yes.
If you're meaning sharing with people who you don't live in travel distance, you need just trust them with your password/account and let them log in as you, and vice versa. Changing your password for it works, but you still need to trust them enough to log in to your account without your supervision, naturally.
If you mean authorising your machine somewhere where you aren't, no, you have to be logged in and on it to authorise it.
Grampa Simpson
Banned
My wife saw me playing desktop dungeons and is now addicted to it. I had her set up a steam account so that I could share it with her. Now she can play it from her account, but then when I start up a different game, it kicks her out.
Am I doing something wrong here?
Am I doing something wrong here?
family_guy
Member
That's the way it works. When you're on the person sharing your library gets kicked off.
Nope. Working as intended. Only one of you can play games from your account at a time. It doesn't care that you are trying to play different games, all it looks at is which account the game came from.
So would two users be able to "cross-link" their libraries meaning that they could access games the other one owned at the same time? Inversely would they be able to access games they both own without kicking anyone out? Not the best explanation but hopefully someone understands what I mean.
Grampa Simpson
Banned
That's disappointing.
Buttonbasher
Member
With the summer sale coming up, just gift her copies of the stuff she plays most.
Yeah it is but I guess it's an attempt by Valve not to make this feature too powerful or something.
Grampa Simpson
Banned
Was hoping the 10 person 5 device limit did that. I was rather hoping that they were going to run with the logic that if a family has 2 Nintendos, and 10 games, that the family could play any 2 games at the same time, just not the same game in two different places.