Can you get banned for sharing your account?

[Reptile Man]

Every now and then I let my little brother play TF2 on my account. Can anything happen from that? I know that some games and game platforms have strict rules against sharing your account.

[Reptile Man]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Teksura:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Red Heavy:

You know what, Imma just take a break from steam as a whole for like a week or two. This whole thing is just putting too much uneeded stress onto me.

Literally all you have to do is tell them to make their own account. That shouldn't be stressful unless you want to be stressed out.

The reason why I am stressed is because I don't know when or if I will be banned for what I did.

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You say you 'share' the account with your brother.

Your brother is just playing on your PC, right? Technically, you're sharing acces to your PC only, wich has steam. Those kind of rules are to prevent logins being shared from one to another. (for example : your brother copying your account info and transferring it to his own pc)

If you were to play a singleplayer on the couch in your livingroom, and you pass on the controller to your mate next to you, it would fall under the same rule, no?

Just tell your brother not to go online or cheat ingame. Set the rules. Keep an eye on him.

And otherwise you can just make another steam account with team fortress 2 on it. It's F2P anyway.

[Reptile Man]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von sm0:

You say you 'share' the account with your brother.

Your brother is just playing on your PC, right? Technically, you're sharing acces to your PC only, wich has steam. Those kind of rules are to prevent logins being shared from one to another. (for example : your brother copying your account info and transferring it to his own pc)

If you were to play a singleplayer on the couch in your livingroom, and you pass on the controller to your mate next to you, it would fall under the same rule, no?

Just tell your brother not to go online or cheat ingame. Set the rules. Keep an eye on him.

And otherwise you can just make another steam account with team fortress 2 on it. It's F2P anyway.

I don't even "share" it with him. It's just when he begs me to let him play Tf2, and even then I only let him play offline training with bots and I keep watch on what he is doing.

[PyroTec95]

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Ursprünglich geschrieben von Red Heavy:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von sm0:

You say you 'share' the account with your brother.

Your brother is just playing on your PC, right? Technically, you're sharing acces to your PC only, wich has steam. Those kind of rules are to prevent logins being shared from one to another. (for example : your brother copying your account info and transferring it to his own pc)

If you were to play a singleplayer on the couch in your livingroom, and you pass on the controller to your mate next to you, it would fall under the same rule, no?

Just tell your brother not to go online or cheat ingame. Set the rules. Keep an eye on him.

And otherwise you can just make another steam account with team fortress 2 on it. It's F2P anyway.

I don't even "share" it with him. It's just when he begs me to let him play Tf2, and even then I only let him play offline training with bots and I keep watch on what he is doing.

Dude, I don't care what your brother does or wants.

Are you actually even replying to my post? Or do you just need to get something off your chest?
If the PC is yours, set the rules. If your mom bugs you to let your brother play, let him play if you only have 1 PC. How hard is it to find some common ground.

The whole reason you started this topic is because you're scared to get banned because you think you're 'sharing' your account.

This has nothing to do with steam's rules about account sharing. You're not sharing your account, you share access with your computer with someone in the same room, the same as passing a controller to someone else.

You don't get it? Don't want be afraid? Then turn all that ♥♥♥♥ off and do something else.


Edit: I don't want to downplay or disregard anything what the users said above, but all those rules can make someone a bit paranoid, I get that.

You either make a new account for your lil brother, or you stay with him all the times.

You do either of these, you're pretty safe.

[Reptile Man]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von sm0:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Red Heavy:

I don't even "share" it with him. It's just when he begs me to let him play Tf2, and even then I only let him play offline training with bots and I keep watch on what he is doing.

Dude, I don't care what your brother does or wants.

Are you actually even replying to my post? Or do you just need to get something off your chest?
If the PC is yours, set the rules. If your mom bugs you to let your brother play, let him play if you only have 1 PC. How hard is it to find some common ground.

The whole reason you started this topic is because you're scared to get banned because you think you're 'sharing' your account.

This has nothing to do with steam's rules about account sharing. You're not sharing your account, you share access with your computer with someone in the same room, the same as passing a controller to someone else.

You don't get it? Don't want be afraid? Then turn all that ♥♥♥♥ off and do something else.


Edit: I don't want to downplay or disregard anything what the users said above, but all those rules can make someone a bit paranoid, I get that.

You either make a new account for your lil brother, or you stay with him all the times.

You do either of these, you're pretty safe.

Okay, thanks for understanding.

[akame]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Red Heavy:

Every now and then I let my little brother play TF2 on my account. Can anything happen from that? I know that some games and game platforms have strict rules against sharing your account.

I'll just let you know that, You'd be responsible for anything that happens to your account, Considering that your brother Cheats, Spams the Forums, Trades your items, Shares your account details Believing a scammer.

The simplest solution is to just create a new account for your brother, and just let him enjoy the game.

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If it's the same pc same ip address and the person don't cheat or nothing. How can steam know it's a different person other then the account holder playing on the account?

Person A owns the account person B gets on same pc and same ip address plays a game on persons A account don't cheat or anything. How is steam going to know that it's not person A playing but person B instead.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Red Heavy:

Every now and then I let my little brother play TF2 on my account. Can anything happen from that? I know that some games and game platforms have strict rules against sharing your account.

Worse.

There is a Zero-Tolerance policy for any violations of the Steam Subscriber Agreement and Online Code of Conduct. All accounts in a user's possession for any of the following activities will be suspended:

Hijacking or Sharing Accounts
Do not use Steam accounts which you did not create.


https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5406-WFZC-5519

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Snake:

If it's the same pc same ip address and the person don't cheat or nothing. How can steam know it's a different person other then the account holder playing on the account?

Person A owns the account person B gets on same pc and same ip address plays a game on persons A account don't cheat or anything. How is steam going to know that it's not person A playing but person B instead.

Valve does not use IP addresses to determine those things because IP addresses can be changed.

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Ursprünglich geschrieben von C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Snake:

If it's the same pc same ip address and the person don't cheat or nothing. How can steam know it's a different person other then the account holder playing on the account?

Person A owns the account person B gets on same pc and same ip address plays a game on persons A account don't cheat or anything. How is steam going to know that it's not person A playing but person B instead.

Valve does not use IP addresses to determine those things because IP addresses can be changed.

Ok ip address aside, how would they know if person B was playing on person A's account?

[Reptile Man]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Snake:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

Valve does not use IP addresses to determine those things because IP addresses can be changed.

But still how would they know if person B was playing on person A's account?

Yeah, how would they? Guyver is basically saying that they would have to way to tell. If they don't go off of IP addresses, then how would they tell? Not like valve will use your cameras on the pc to see who is playing.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Snake:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

Valve does not use IP addresses to determine those things because IP addresses can be changed.

But still how would they know if person B was playing on person A's account?

They have ways of knowing, but they do not use IP addresses to do it.

You thinking that they have no way of knowing, doesn't mean that they don't have a way.

Read this again.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Red Heavy:

Every now and then I let my little brother play TF2 on my account. Can anything happen from that? I know that some games and game platforms have strict rules against sharing your account.

Worse.

There is a Zero-Tolerance policy for any violations of the Steam Subscriber Agreement and Online Code of Conduct. All accounts in a user's possession for any of the following activities will be suspended:

Hijacking or Sharing Accounts
Do not use Steam accounts which you did not create.


https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5406-WFZC-5519

A suspended account is permanently locked. It is THE WORST thing that can happen to a Steam account, period.

[crunchyfrog]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Red Heavy:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Teksura:

Literally all you have to do is tell them to make their own account. That shouldn't be stressful unless you want to be stressed out.

The reason why I am stressed is because I don't know when or if I will be banned for what I did.

Simple answer.

If you shared your account with your brother, and your brother did nothing cheaty or against the rules, then you're all good.

Sharing with family members in the household is fine, other than that not. It's why the family sharing function was created by Valve. There was one user on here who, before that feature, managed to code a front end for Steam to do this too. He was a legend.

Now, if your brother did do some cheating online or broke the rules, sadly, as it's YOUR account, the account will receive some ban or infraction. That's unavoidable as you're responsible for the protection of the account.

I hope that answers your question.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

What you're not getting is, the account getting banned isn't even part of the equation, because the account will not get banned...it will get suspended. Stop sharing your account with others. Have you brother create his own account.