family sharing

[NSA MESSAGE]

its tagged in family sharing but i cant play it with my wife i got to buy 2 copy of the game to play with her

[Wawa]

If you only have 1 copy of the game bought, only one guy can play the game.

[NSA MESSAGE]

Steam Families Feature Overview

Creating a Steam Family:
Steam Families can contain up to 6 family members.
Steam Families can be managed via Steam Client, mobile device, or web browser.

Family Sharing:
Access to all games owned by family members.
New Steam Family library appears in the games list section.
Ownership of games remains with the purchaser; new purchases appear in your collection.
Personal saved games, achievements, and workshop access for shared games.
Ability to play a family member’s game simultaneously, even if another game is being played

[How2Survive - Ghetta82]

Originally posted by NSA MESSAGE:

its tagged in family sharing but i cant play it with my wife i got to buy 2 copy of the game to play with her

So what's your problem? If u don't know how familty share work on steam search it before blame to developer. no comment.

[NSA MESSAGE]

Originally posted by How2Survive - Ghetta82:

Originally posted by NSA MESSAGE:

its tagged in family sharing but i cant play it with my wife i got to buy 2 copy of the game to play with her

So what's your problem? If u don't know how familty share work on steam search it before blame to developer. no comment.

Steam Families Feature Overview

Creating a Steam Family:
Steam Families can contain up to 6 family members.
Steam Families can be managed via Steam Client, mobile device, or web browser.

Family Sharing:
Access to all games owned by family members.
New Steam Family library appears in the games list section.
Ownership of games remains with the purchaser; new purchases appear in your collection.
Personal saved games, achievements, and workshop access for shared games.
Ability to play a family member’s game simultaneously, even if another game is being played

[NSA MESSAGE]

Originally posted by How2Survive - Ghetta82:

Originally posted by NSA MESSAGE:

its tagged in family sharing but i cant play it with my wife i got to buy 2 copy of the game to play with her

So what's your problem? If u don't know how familty share work on steam search it before blame to developer. no comment.

Ability to play a family member’s game simultaneously is not working on this game

[Amithus]

Originally posted by NSA MESSAGE:

Originally posted by How2Survive - Ghetta82:

So what's your problem? If u don't know how familty share work on steam search it before blame to developer. no comment.

Steam Families Feature Overview

Creating a Steam Family:
Steam Families can contain up to 6 family members.
Steam Families can be managed via Steam Client, mobile device, or web browser.

Family Sharing:
Access to all games owned by family members.
New Steam Family library appears in the games list section.
Ownership of games remains with the purchaser; new purchases appear in your collection.
Personal saved games, achievements, and workshop access for shared games.
Ability to play a family member’s game simultaneously, even if another game is being played

Right, but think of it like back in the day when you would borrow your xbox or nintendo games to a buddy. When they had the disk / cart, you couldn't play it.

Why would any developer allow family share access to buy one license and allow 6 people to play it. Everyone would have a massive family share and all the games would only have 1/6th the amount of sales.

We're lucky that anyone even allows this anymore, be thankful this developer only charges $20. If you can't give a solo dev that created one of the best games $20 then I don't know what to tell you. Support the guy if you want to play together. Freaking crazy man.....

[Guape]

It says even if "another game" is being played simultaneously. Not the "same game". That's not how it works man.

[Amithus]

Originally posted by NSA MESSAGE:

Originally posted by How2Survive - Ghetta82:

So what's your problem? If u don't know how familty share work on steam search it before blame to developer. no comment.

Ability to play a family member’s game simultaneously is not working on this game

I've been using family share for a while now. Nowhere does it say that you can play the same game at the same time. A simple google search would tell you this, and common sense.

[LtBill]

i went and look at the FAQ of family sharing - https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/4605582245626919823
and there is a section what says the following:

Can we go through a real world example of how a Steam Family might share games?

Of course! Let's say that you are in a family with 4 members and that you own a copy of Portal 2 and a copy of Half-Life. At any time, any one member can play Portal 2 and another can play Half-Life. If two of you would like to play Portal 2 at the same time, someone else in the family will need to purchase a copy of the game. After that purchase, there are two owned copies of Portal 2 across the family and any two members can play at the same time.

In this example, if your family chose to not buy a second copy, you can play any other game in your library while waiting for your family member to finish playing your copy of Portal 2.

[Farkus]

Bro can't read and is spam pasting it. It doesn't say you can play the same game's license just that you can use each others licenses on other games at the same time, you still need to buy two licenses to play two copies at the same time

[NSA MESSAGE]

Originally posted by Amithus:

Originally posted by NSA MESSAGE:

Steam Families Feature Overview

Creating a Steam Family:
Steam Families can contain up to 6 family members.
Steam Families can be managed via Steam Client, mobile device, or web browser.

Family Sharing:
Access to all games owned by family members.
New Steam Family library appears in the games list section.
Ownership of games remains with the purchaser; new purchases appear in your collection.
Personal saved games, achievements, and workshop access for shared games.
Ability to play a family member’s game simultaneously, even if another game is being played

Right, but think of it like back in the day when you would borrow your xbox or nintendo games to a buddy. When they had the disk / cart, you couldn't play it.

Why would any developer allow family share access to buy one license and allow 6 people to play it. Everyone would have a massive family share and all the games would only have 1/6th the amount of sales.

We're lucky that anyone even allows this anymore, be thankful this developer only charges $20. If you can't give a solo dev that created one of the best games $20 then I don't know what to tell you. Support the guy if you want to play together. Freaking crazy man.....

we are in the digital age were family sharing is a thing as stated by steam above

[Amithus]

Originally posted by NSA MESSAGE:

Originally posted by How2Survive - Ghetta82:

So what's your problem? If u don't know how familty share work on steam search it before blame to developer. no comment.

Ability to play a family member’s game simultaneously is not working on this game

I don't know where you're getting that l

Originally posted by NSA MESSAGE:

Originally posted by How2Survive - Ghetta82:

So what's your problem? If u don't know how familty share work on steam search it before blame to developer. no comment.

Steam Families Feature Overview

Creating a Steam Family:
Steam Families can contain up to 6 family members.
Steam Families can be managed via Steam Client, mobile device, or web browser.

Family Sharing:
Access to all games owned by family members.
New Steam Family library appears in the games list section.
Ownership of games remains with the purchaser; new purchases appear in your collection.
Personal saved games, achievements, and workshop access for shared games.
Ability to play a family member’s game simultaneously, even if another game is being played

I don't know where you're getting that line "ability to play a family member's game simultaneously. If you go to the steam page about family share and look through the FAQ you see:

"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."

https://store.steampowered.com/promotion/familysharing/%3Fl%3Drussian?l=english

[Ryomen Sukuna]

so steam family will let someone play a game that they don't own if someone in the family has it but it will not make more than 1 copy so if you have 1 copy only 1 person can play the game at a time so steam family will not allow you to play the same game if there is only 1 copy they did this so 1 person couldn't buy a game and then 6 people could play it at the same time, the feature is mostly for single player games or if multiple people have the game and they can swap around who is playing. so you will have to get another copy

[silly]

Which games are currently eligible for Family Sharing?

As Steam Families is replacing the Steam Family Sharing feature, all developer set Family Sharing settings from the outgoing feature are being brought forward to Steam Families. So, if a game is currently eligible for Family Sharing, it will remain so in the new system unless the publisher chooses to opt-out later.

As with Steam Family Sharing previously, not all games can be shared due to technical limitations, some Steam games and content may be unavailable for sharing. Games or content that matches the criteria below cannot be shared between accounts.
Games that require an additional third-party key, account, or a subscription in order to play
Free to play games and any purchased DLC for those games
Games or DLC that is restricted in your or the other family member's region
Games that do not support the other family member's operating system
Games that the publisher has marked explicitly as unavailable for sharing
Games marked as private by the original owner
Games that are currently excluded from Family Sharing will continue to be
excluded from sharing in Steam Families. This includes games that require an additional third party account or subscription.

[MiKowaii]

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/054C-3167-DD7F-49D4#frequent

Lookup "Can we go through a real world example of how a Steam Family might share games?" section.
Your wife can play any game that you own, but not currently playing. To have 2 family members playing the same game, you need to have 2 copies of the game in family.