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One would have to be an off-line game with Steam in off-line mode.
I don't know of any bans associate with such activity.
Everything that everyone says on Reddit is the undeniable truth, with absolutely no lies or misleading statements that leave out significant parts of the entire story ever posted there.
Reddit is undeniably the best place to seek the truth in all matters.
You can only access your games from one machine at a time. If you try to log in on 2 different computers, one will receive and error message, and you will have to logout on one machine.
Scroll down to item #3: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/71EA-CDCE-FB5C-82B3
for example i can play tf2 on desktop and bloons on laptop at same time
This has an advantage over ASF in this particular case, which counts as a distinct computer.
Reddit is the last place to go for ANY truth on all matters. Steam, also the case these days with the fake people on here who enjoy spreading misinformation, particularly in groups.
It was clearly noticed, hence the statement that steam is equally as bad. Learn to read please and stop being toxic.
I did not try playing games at the same time with both of them at the same time, nor did I try to have one of them log in on a different IP address, so I don't know either of those outcomes.
As for trying to play games with both, I'm pretty sure that won't work, given what I've heard about how Family Sharing works.
As for multiple IP address, there was one time that someone logged onto my Steam account from a faraway IP address -- when Steam messed up its password recovery page and someone attempted to hijack my account. That action caused me to get kicked off an active Steam account session (I wasn't playing anything but was logged in). So my guess is that it won't work if your IP addresses are different. (If you have a cell phone with mobile hotspot, you can try it yourself.)
I doubt you'd be banned from Steam, but it'll just kick you off, basically.
This request reminds me of the GOG FAQ saying that you're allowed to run multiple instances of the same game in the same household by pointing out that if you have a render farm in your basement you can try to set a record for number of simultaneous instances of The Witcher.
As far as I understand (correct me if I'm wrong), Steam not only won't let you do that because same game; it won't let you do that even if it's different games from the same library, even within one household.
Again, they probably won't ban you but they'll just kick whoever was on first off.
(They might ban you if you try to sell or distribute access to your account though.)
One thing to add, however, is that there are no issues running multiple games from the same account on the same computer, so you can easily have your idle game run in the background while actively playing something else. Just run everything on one computer and tab between the games. You can run idle games with low settings on small resolutions in order to save on processing overhead, and many games will flat-out stop using system resources (aside for the RAM allocation) when minimized.
Valve should really think about locking the library per IP and not per machine so that in one household multiple computers can access the same library. But every game only once.
Having the steam deck at the toilet for example for a quick play will kick you out of your maingame you are playing at PC which is quite tedious.
Valve with the actual system is just animating to create new steam accounts for single games, which is btw already a thing since family sharing and this is destroying the community-aspect valve wants to build here. There is even dedicated software that was developed just for the purpose to switch fast between steam-accounts to create a one-game-per-steamacc-library...
Also there are some games, idle games and MMOs like Albion or EVE for example, that people like to have open constantly at a second monitor to observe progress, chat and what not. The option to put these on a different system while having the main system for beefy games would put incentive away from buying bigger machines in order to parallel-play stuff.
Actually i am convinced that there already are ways with some techfu in networking and virtualization that you could trick multiple steamclients in a LAN into believing they run on the same machine so why not already make it possible by design...
Create VPN, invite all steam users... now everyone can play their games in a giant pool.
I doubt Valve would do that