Family sharing game showing purchase

[Sega]

Hello everyone, i heard steam now allows people from the same family to play together buying the game only once (game in question is ravenswatch) so i bought the game created a family with my wife but on her pc its showing PURCHASE not play, we want to play together and i cant find a solution for this, the game is showing as "included" on the family sharing section:

https://imgur.com/a/wRvAIpc

any advice on how to solve this?

[ZeroKasa]

What you heard is incorrect, you can't play the same game togather, the family share system treats games as discs, so only one person can play a game at a time.

[Sega]

ZeroKasa님이 먼저 게시:

What you heard is incorrect, you can't play the same game togather, the family share system treats games as discs, so only one person can play a game at a time.

makes sense, but they changed it Because before i had to turn off my wifi to let her play, now she can play any game BUT the one im playing

thanks for the help, i hope at somepoint steam let us do it at least if both at the same house/ip

[ZeroKasa]

Sega님이 먼저 게시:

ZeroKasa님이 먼저 게시:

What you heard is incorrect, you can't play the same game togather, the family share system treats games as discs, so only one person can play a game at a time.

makes sense, but they changed it Because before i had to turn off my wifi to let her play, now she can play any game BUT the one im playing

thanks for the help, i hope at somepoint steam let us do it at least if both at the same house/ip

Yeah back then the system was concerned about libraries as a whole so only one person could play from a library.

My pleasure.

[Ogami]

Basically everyone in the Steam Family put their games into a shelf and everyone from the family can grab any game at any time to play.
But you can only play as many copies at the same time are are licenses present.
So lets say 3 members of a Steam family have the same game, that means the Steam Family has 3 licenses of the game which is presented by a small number showing the number of licenses on the game cover in the library.
Looks like this: https://prnt.sc/8P3PDJfrd_2w

So in this case any 3 family members could play the game at the same time and/or with each other.
Since you only bought a single license of the game only one member of your family can play at the same time.
So your wife would need to buy her own copy of that game so you have 2 licenses in the Steam Family if you want to play together/at the same time.

[Sega]

Ogami님이 먼저 게시:

Basically everyone in the Steam Family put their games into a shelf and everyone from the family can grab any game at any time to play.
But you can only play as many copies at the same time are are licenses present.
So lets say 3 members of a Steam family have the same game, that means the Steam Family has 3 licenses of the game which is presented by a small number showing the number of licenses on the game cover in the library.
Looks like this: https://prnt.sc/8P3PDJfrd_2w

So in this case any 3 family members could play the game at the same time and/or with each other.
Since you only bought a single license of the game only one member of your family can play at the same time.
So your wife would need to buy her own copy of that game so you have 2 licenses in the Steam Family if you want to play together/at the same time.

oh got it, thats nice