Family sharing died?

[Konno'Yuuki]

I wanted to play to understand whether to buy it or not, a friend shared it from his library, after 1 hour the access disappeared and will not appear, have the developers disabled the possibility of family access?

[asdaf]

yes thats same as pirateing its illegal

[Vivianite]

Originally posted by boobies:

yes thats same as pirateing its illegal

no because it still needs a purchase

speculated: counter procedure to combat the rising botting problem because trading gold is a thing

[Real Name]

How is/was it illegal if it is built into Steam and is is/was an option?

[[BLASTER]]

Originally posted by boobies:

yes thats same as pirateing its illegal

Literally the family sharing function is a Steam tool, you have to be stupid to consider that it is illegal, because from the beginning you already need to at least buy the game once.

[Vertigo]

But you can see the glaring issue here. It is Family Sharing not a friend shared to me. This is a widely abused system that does steal revenue from companies. Im glad EHG disabled it. You want to play then you need to pay.

[tmaddox]

I actually don't blame any company for turning it off, although it should have been turned off from the start if that was the case.

Too many people abuse it and are not actually sharing with family but with friends and acquaintances near and far which, in the end, is costing the devs sales.

[Denver3D]

I used to share my last epoch with my brother when I'm at work ... I can't let them mess with my own account this is really a bad idea to disable family share just to fight bots instead of implementing anti cheat ffs
I'm done from this game

[shleepy]

Official Dev Post from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/LastEpoch/comments/1b6jzcg/comment/ktcz6db/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

We have unfortunately had to disable family sharing on Steam for Last Epoch.

This feature enabled the use of significant RMT (Real Money Trading) and Botting options, and was removing our ability to ban/remove accounts, faster than they could share them with their entire networks. This resulted in a significant amount of spam, RMT abuse, Gold Selling, and Botting, all within less than two weeks.

Disabling Family Sharing was necessary to combat these RMT services abusing this feature hurting the in-game experience for all players. We continue to prioritize player experience, from quality of life features in game design, to incorporating feedback, to social interactions within Last Epoch. With that, we want to ensure you that we will continue to explore options for how we might be able to support this feature, as well as ban these offending accounts to help keep Last Epoch a welcoming community for everyone.

[EvilHare]

Originally posted by Denver3D:

I used to share my last epoch with my brother when I'm at work ... I can't let them mess with my own account this is really a bad idea to disable family share just to fight bots instead of implementing anti cheat ffs
I'm done from this game

There should have never been family share on a live service game.

[Panquequita de miel]

Originally posted by boobies:

yes thats same as pirateing its illegal

Steam family is not pirateing, in order to share is mandatory a purchase,

How am I pirateing Last Epoch if my BF bought it?

If my BF buys a car, I cannot use it, I need to buy my own car, because thats same as pirateing its illegal. If my BF buys an album, I can't listen to it, I have to buy my own album because thats same as pirateing its illegal

Originally posted by Vertigo:

But you can see the glaring issue here. It is Family Sharing not a friend shared to me. This is a widely abused system that does steal revenue from companies. Im glad EHG disabled it. You want to play then you need to pay.

1- «Steam Family Library Sharing allows family members and their guests» source
2- While it is true that the system can be abused, the virtues it grants are greater than the harms, so much so that Steam allows said system to exist, I see it as absurd that you bring that argument up in this context
3- "steal revenue from companies", "You want to play then you need to pay"
«the study concluded that there was no evidence that piracy affects copyrighted sales, and in the case of video games, might actually help them» source Although it is true that it is piracy source, the results can be extrapolated, at the end of the day there is still someone who literally paid in the family
If I literally don't want to pay, I download the cracked version of elamigos. Otherwise I tell my boyfriend to buy the game, he plays it, then I play it, I don't see the "steal" logic here, and I see it as absurd to have to pay again for a game that my boyfriend already paid for.

[Roostahh]

Originally posted by Denver3D:

I used to share my last epoch with my brother when I'm at work ... I can't let them mess with my own account this is really a bad idea to disable family share just to fight bots instead of implementing anti cheat ffs
I'm done from this game

dont let the door hit your bum on the way out

[The Regulator]

I am refunding this game on my main account. I had 30 hours wasted on this and multiple high level characters now locked behind a $40 paywall. No thanks. left my review and I am peacing out

[Kama Nightfire]

I'm completely fine with Family Share being disabled for an online, economy-driven game that aims to rival games like Path of Exile, Diablo, and similar. You don't see these titles with Family Share enabled do you?

Only thing I've ever seen Family Share do is give an avenue for cheating and dishonest people to use it to disrupt online games. Years of Dark Souls across all their games has me well aware of the abuse it has caused.

Purchase the game if you want to play it, only one person in a family tree being able to afford a game is suspect anyhow.

[The Regulator]

Originally posted by Kama Nightfire:

I'm completely fine with Family Share being disabled for an online, economy-driven game that aims to rival games like Path of Exile, Diablo, and similar. You don't see these titles with Family Share enabled do you?

Only thing I've ever seen Family Share do is give an avenue for cheating and dishonest people to use it to disrupt online games. Years of Dark Souls across all their games has me well aware of the abuse it has caused.

Purchase the game if you want to play it, only one person in a family tree being able to afford a game is suspect anyhow.

I purchased it on my main account because I am staying in Panama right now and the game costs more money here because steam thinks I am in Costa Rica. So I bought it with my other account that is based in the US, my home. I played the game on my main account for 30 hours and now its locked behind a 40$ paywall. You think thats fair? for them to ♥♥♥♥ over a customer base over a feature that WAS implemented on their FULL RELEASE and then take it back effectively making all my time wasted. ♥♥♥♥ their virtual economy. I lost 40$ and 30 hours of my time.