Giving my games to my son

[Perrys_Playground]

Hello, I recently bought a new computer, gave old computer to son, got steam running and reset my password because I had forgotten it. My son is old enough he would appreciate half of my game collection to be able to play with his other parent. I would like to know how to give them to him in his own account. I made him his own steam account and bought a $6 game to activate his account. My account is telling me I am blocked from trading for 6 more days. Is that the feature I would use to give my son some of my games that I don't play? Thanks.

[Splinter]

If I understand correctly, you want to give some of your games that you don't play anymore in your library to him, right? Sadly, that isn't possible. If that would be possible, people could abuse the system and only buy 1 copy of a game and just share the game to other all the time which means noone will buy it themselves.

[Sensei]

You can't trade/sell/gift away your games, But you can use 'family share'.

[Kargor]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Sensei:

You can't trade/sell/gift away your games, But you can use 'family share'.

Family share is good in name only. Playing a shared game will do two things:
a) it blocks the entire library, not just the one game that's being played
b) VAC bans (and probably other stuff too) will fire through the family sharing and destroy the owning accunt as well. And there's no way to just share the games that aren't VAC-infested -- it's an all-or-nothing deal.

On the positive side, older games tend to have pretty good sales discounts...

[ReBoot]

The solution to issue #2 is not cheating. Ive been sharing with my sister for years now. Not a single ban. How can it be if #2 is an issue? Oh right, she doesnt cheat. Seriously, citing VAC as a downside to SFS doesnt make sense.
As for #1, an issue for families where everybodys playing 24/7. For families with additional hobbies, it works jsut fine. Again, my sister gets to ppay my stuff because i have other hobbies as well.

[MancSoulja]

Giving your son direct access to your account breaches Steam’s subscriber agreement. Use family sharing like others have suggested.

[Supafly]

Family sharing is the only option other than purchasing games for your sons account. Wait for sales and you can get some great games really cheap.

[ KARR™]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von ReBoot:

The solution to issue #2 is not cheating. Ive been sharing with my sister for years now. Not a single ban. How can it be if #2 is an issue? Oh right, she doesnt cheat. Seriously, citing VAC as a downside to SFS doesnt make sense.

Of COURSE it is an 'issue'. If it wasn't then Valve wouldn't bother telling you about it in the first place.

If you share your games to someone who is young and doesn't understand what could happen if they cheat, if they're being told by their friends that "i use this, its great, i win all the time and its untraceable!" then there is every chance that they are going to try it. Or their friend is there with them and they start saying "let me know you this, it'll make you invincible!"

It's peer pressure. The same reasons why kids start smoking, or stealing things from people. If someone is going to share games with someone they NEED TO BE AWARE of the dangers of doing it. It's not a case of not trusting them, they make be very good kids, but you need to be AWARE it could happen.

[ReBoot]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von  KARR™:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von ReBoot:

The solution to issue #2 is not cheating. Ive been sharing with my sister for years now. Not a single ban. How can it be if #2 is an issue? Oh right, she doesnt cheat. Seriously, citing VAC as a downside to SFS doesnt make sense.

Of COURSE it is an 'issue'. If it wasn't then Valve wouldn't bother telling you about it in the first place.

If you share your games to someone who is young and doesn't understand what could happen if they cheat, if they're being told by their friends that "i use this, its great, i win all the time and its untraceable!" then there is every chance that they are going to try it. Or their friend is there with them and they start saying "let me know you this, it'll make you invincible!"

It's peer pressure. The same reasons why kids start smoking, or stealing things from people. If someone is going to share games with someone they NEED TO BE AWARE of the dangers of doing it. It's not a case of not trusting them, they make be very good kids, but you need to be AWARE it could happen.

How comes I never cheated even when I was younger? Oh right, my parents managed to teach me right from wrong. But even if you dont believe in social solutioks, theres a technucal one: A process whitelist. Set that up, viola, no cheats. Ever.

[The Giving One]

VAC and family sharing are not "issues" taken together, unless one MAKES it an issue. For example, cheating.

No cheating, no VAC ban and no issue with family sharing. It's fine to mention the possibility just to inform others, but as long as there is no cheating, there is no issue with VAC and family sharing.

[Perrys_Playground]

Thank you so much for everyone's comments, I am not intelligent enough to even know how to let my kid play these games, let alone try to find a way to cheat in games, lol :) I will tell my husband about family sharing and see what happens. Thank you again! :)

[alexnode]

I think it's totally unacceptable that you can't gift your games to your child. Family sharing is totally beta. Now that he is older and we split accounts I would like to give him all the platformers and early childhood games that I bought for him in my account. That's the world of digital downloads unfortunately.

[Cathulhu]

If you think that's unacceptable, then why did you accept the Steam Subscriber Agreement where you accepted exactly that?

[Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥)]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von alexnode:

I think it's totally unacceptable that you can't gift your games to your child. Family sharing is totally beta. Now that he is older and we split accounts I would like to give him all the platformers and early childhood games that I bought for him in my account. That's the world of digital downloads unfortunately.

If you bought them for him, why did you use your own account? You are allowed to make an account for your child as a guardian, even if your child isn't 13 yet.
You didn't use that option, that's on you.

Completely unnecessary necro of a 5 year old thread.

[ReBoot]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von alexnode:

I think it's totally unacceptable that you can't gift your games to your child. Family sharing is totally beta. Now that he is older and we split accounts I would like to give him all the platformers and early childhood games that I bought for him in my account. That's the world of digital downloads unfortunately.

You've assumed you could split accounts when buying games for your child on your account. You went ahead with an unverified assumption & got bitten. ♥♥♥♥ happens, take this as a life lesson, one to pass on to your child.

You need a better way to deal with assumptions!

[Crazy Tiger]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von alexnode:

I think it's totally unacceptable that you can't gift your games to your child. Family sharing is totally beta. Now that he is older and we split accounts I would like to give him all the platformers and early childhood games that I bought for him in my account. That's the world of digital downloads unfortunately.

Why haven't you bought those games on an account for your kid. I've always done that for both my kids.

It might also be wise to familiarise yourself with a platform before you start acquiring a library on it. Had you done so, you would have been aware of the limitations. It's, again, why I made accounts for my kids to begin with.