Steam Family View & Steam Family Sharing

[nya[dc]]

Are these interwined? For example if I restrict access on my account and only allow selected games to be played without pin access, would that translate over to the shared library for sharing so they could only access those games as well?

If that is not the case it absolutely should be, you're restricting your library and it should translate to everything. This would also make it nice so you could specifically exclude VAC enabled games from being shared to avoid the potential for the mess that could cause.

[ KARR™]

No.

Family sharing is currently everything or nothing.

[Midnight Sky ✨🌙✨]

Originally posted by ᴷᴬᴿᴿ:

No.

Family sharing is currently everything or nothing.

He's not asking if family view can let you play a game while someone else borrows the rest of your library. He's asking if family view can control which games other accounts have access to while using his library while still being unable to play those restricted games without kicking out whoever's playing your games.

[nya[dc]]

Originally posted by Mr. Gency:

Originally posted by ᴷᴬᴿᴿ:

No.

Family sharing is currently everything or nothing.

He's not asking if family view can let you play a game while someone else borrows the rest of your library. He's asking if family view can control which games other accounts have access to while using his library.

Precisely.

[ KARR™]

Originally posted by Mr. Gency:

Originally posted by ᴷᴬᴿᴿ:

No.

Family sharing is currently everything or nothing.

He's not asking if family view can let you play a game while someone else borrows the rest of your library. He's asking if family view can control which games other accounts have access to while using his library while still being unable to play those restricted games without kicking out whoever's playing your games.

As i said originally....

NO. You either share ALL the games or NONE of your games. You can't restrict which games are shared and family view only effects the account it is set on.

I didn't mention anything about playing while someone's playing a different one!!

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I'm still not clear on how this works.

Say John shares their library with Jane. Jane has Family View turned on. Can Jane control which of John's games are allowed in Family View, or without entering a Family PIN can Jane access all of John's games, regardless of the Family View setting?

[Tev]

Originally posted by redbmk:

I'm still not clear on how this works.

Say John shares their library with Jane. Jane has Family View turned on. Can Jane control which of John's games are allowed in Family View, or without entering a Family PIN can Jane access all of John's games, regardless of the Family View setting?

While you could've made your own thread instead of bump one back from 2.5 years ago.

From my personal experience, I'd say Jane has to launch all games she wants to exclude from John's library once so that she can actually exclude them on Steam Family View.

Before I ran the game	It doesn't show up on the list. [i.imgur.com]
After I ran the game	It shows up on the list. [i.imgur.com]

Stupid, I know.

And to clarify: the Family View only prevents incoming access; it doesn't prevent games from being shared. It only prevents access to them on the account that it's set on; and from the games it's set on.

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Hmm, I tried that, but it doesn't seem to work for me. Any shared game Jane starts to play will then show up as an option to exclude in the Steam Family View settings. However, the game is off by default and even with it off the game is still playable.