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Now, assuming you do own Slime Rancher, you first need to go into the Slime Rancher DLC page through your Slime Rancher library page. Download the DLC from there because it is free. Then, in order to install it, you need to go into "LIBRARY" in your Steam taskbar and go to "Downloads" in the pop-up menu. Download the DLC there and you should be good to go. If you see the DLC listed in your Slime Rancher library page in white and with a checkmark beside it then you will know it is installed.
Hope this helped.
also this is the first time i've seen this bug reported, and honestly i personally dont think its worth increasing the price of cosmetic DLC just bc a very small portion of users are having trouble downloading it
maomag seems to know what they're talking about, though, so try that, i guess
The question here is why the OP cannot buy the game on the account they are using to post this thread. If they have the game and still cannot get the DLC then there is a bug but if they don't have the game then they are not supposed to be able to get the DLC.
I already told this two times already in the previous discussion, that this method DOES NOT WORK. If I press downoad, it will just open the game and that's it. Repeating same method over and over again will not yield any different results, if the bug does not get fixed.
What makes you think users with families are small portion of Steam clients ? Please share us the source of the statistics on said topic that you seem to have acquired.
That is how family library works - each person has a game collection SHARED with the other members of the family. Obviously no one will buy the same game over and over again. If you have no family that's not my concern, though it's unfortunate you can't see how things are from our point of view.
"Hate" is your own interpretation. Like I said, if you think your claims of me being hateful make any sense, try to push it through the court, I will gladly compensate you if you will manage to win.
Battle Brothers has the exact same problem, threads about it are years old, Steam still continues to treat families like ****.
P.s. And I am not asking for high price, 0,01 euros will do fine, just need the price, so we would have a workaround for the bug.
That is OK. I seem to have gotten confused with the "increased" part. It happens
Free DLC can cause issues sometimes. Free games can, too. You can download a free game onto your account and it will be registered on your account but for some reason it will not carry over to other computers whereas paid games will. This may be a bug with Steam and it may be the bug the OP is referring to
if the OP does have Slime Rancher then they will need to re-download the DLC if they are trying to access their account from another computer.
Thing is, we don't know if the OP even has the Slime Rancher game. If they have multiple Steam accounts then we should assume they have Slime Rancher on another account. I don't see any reason why wanting to download DLC for a game that does not show up on the account you are requesting it for would make any sense to anyone so I can see why some people in the other thread (which is now locked) were confused and maybe being a bit conflictive.
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So how does "Steam Family Library" work, then? I asked about that in my other post and you didn't explain. Is it a single account that multiple people can log into with different usernames and passwords? Because that makes no sense. If you want to share a game on a single account then you create a single username and password that everyone in the family knows. You do not need to create multiple usernames and passwords in order to share a game.
One thing is very certain: You do not have Slime Rancher on the account you are using to post in this thread so you should not be able to use any Slime Rancher DLC on it. This is not a bug. You need to have a game in your account in order to download DLC for it.
EDIT: Fixed last two quotes.
I got the impression you think it is not worthwhile to face me in court. So you are not encouraged by possible financial gains ? Well then try to imprison me, if that suits your fancy better.
What exactly is rude in me offering a solution to bug that has not been fixed for years ? Why are you even so against fixing bugs ? We pay tons of money to Steam, so why can't a single bug be fixed in all these years ?
We did try similar thing by simply copying the dlc files, didn't work. Otherwise, like I said before, we prefer to use separate accounts, so we could compete over achievements.
Family library sharing is a Steam feature. We are paying for Steam features, most games on Steam are NOT for free, mind you, means service charges are already included. Now, I would actually like those services to work.
Wrong. To play a game I DO NOT need to have it on my account, it is enough to have it in a shared library.
Family library sharing means certain Steam accounts each share their game libraries with each other, simple as that. The only limitation is that the same shared library can't be used by two users at once. System works very well, except for the said buggy free dlcs.
"Family Sharing allows family members to share games while keeping their accounts separate.
Family and guests can play one another's games while earning their own Steam achievements and saving their own game progress to the Steam Cloud. It works by granting family members access to games on a shared computer."
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3784-QLBM-5731
its like you give another account permission to have access to some of your games (not everything works, like multiplayer games and f2p games i think). they then have two separate library categories. by that i mean they have their own, normal list and then below that are the games of your friend or whoever listed, which you can then install and play.
thats what i found regarding dlcs:
"DLC and in-game content
A borrower will have access to the lender's games and DLC, but only if the borrower does not also own the base game. If a they already own the game, they'll need to purchase the DLC themselves in order to play it. For free to play games, DLC cannot be shared since all Steam users "own" the game.
Any user may purchase, trade, earn, or otherwise acquire in-game content while playing a game, but in-game items cannot be shared between accounts. These items remain the property of the account that purchased or acquired them.
Trading cards will not be dropped while playing a shared game."
so i guess op plays on a shared game and wants to have access to the dlc. usually they have access to the dlcs but i dunno why it doesnt work for slime rancher.
also im just very confused by all of this lol. so its either really a bug or i just dont get it.
hope that helped.
OK then. I had to look Steam Family Sharing up on Google (prior to being post-ninja'd by Lena) to have a clue as to what you are even talking about. And I still think you've got a few things wrong here. While it is true that you don't need to have the game registered on your account in order to play it with Steam Family Sharing, you still cannot download the DLC with your account if you do not have the Slime Rancher game registered on your account. If you want to play the DLC, either the person whose Slime Rancher game you are sharing needs to download the DLC or you need to download the Slime Rancher game on your account.
Obviously we have tried that already and to no avail, unfortunately.
I do download it, but through the family library, that's how family libraries work. And free dlcs does not, 'thanks" to the bug.
yeah i get what you mean and where you are coming from but its really strange. if the original owner has the dlc downloaded you should have access to it.
have you tried contacting steam support? im not sure how fertile steam forums are as we are all just users without having the ability to look further into this matter.
Yes. Both here and in Facebook. No answer. Unfortunately I do not have any of their phone numbers nor their European office address.
Not much, of course. That's why I figured to just ask the game devs to increase the price of free dlcs. I don't think a symbolic price of 1 eurocent would be so terrible solution.