how to know someone is playing online game on steam account

[76561198221193232]

My friend give me his steam acc so I can play some game. But I am afraid that when I log in the game i will mess him up while he's playing it. How can I know that isn't playing that game while i'm on that acc?

[Mal]

You're breaking the subscriber agreement

[«Gғм» Kid Of The Century]

An account can be used by one person at a time, so if you're playing he's not.

In case you meant "shared through Family Sharing" if you're playing one of his games and he starts something you'll be booted out after 5 mins.

[HEAVY METAL ZOMBIE]

Originally posted by «Gғм» Kid Of The Century:

An account can be used by one person at a time, so if you're playing he's not.

In case you meant "shared through Family Sharing" if you're playing one of his games and he starts something you'll be booted out after 5 mins.

I'm curious .
Does " friend " = " family " in the Steam Family Sharing user agreement ?

[76561198221193232]

technically, he's my old brother ( son of uncle ) so yeah

[76561198221193232]

and how could i know whether he's playing so i don't mess his queue up?

[«Gғм» Kid Of The Century]

Originally posted by HEAVY METAL ZOMBIE:

I'm curious .
Does " friend " = " family " in the Steam Family Sharing user agreement ?

Ok, let's get real: while Family Sharing is ideally designed to share the game library among family members, it isn't closed to friends too.
Their advertisement mentions the word "friends" multiple times. Take a look: http://store.steampowered.com/promotion/familysharing

Also, there's no such thing as "Steam Family Sharing user agreement".
There's a Steam Subscriber Agreement, where is written that giving away the access credentials to share an account is forbidden. Steam Family Sharing does not require that access credentials have to be shared, therefore no rule is broken.

Originally posted by Don't Need To Know:

and how could i know whether he's playing so i don't mess his queue up?

I already told you that above.

[76561198221193232]

but i and he are logged in in the same time and when i see that he was dc then i realized i messed him up, so at that time, i and he was logged in in the same time

[ZanyScum]

you could use another messenger to talk to each other?

If you have a bit of an idea what you are doing:
- get the client miranda-ng: http://www.miranda-ng.org/en/
- create a jabber account for example via http://www.jabber.org/

If you have no idea what I am talking about, try instead the DAU variant:
https://telegram.org/ (it is good, but not as secure as a secure jabber connection)

[ZanyScum]

Ah, ok, there is the right way to do it:
- create a new steam account for yourself (it is free)
- let your friend family share his games to you

This way steam itself will take care of the problem and you don't have to do anything.
I think at least.

Could anyone here tell us if correctly used family sharing would help him?

[ KARR™]

Without going into the permissions issue.

If you log into an account already in use, it doesn't cause any issues. Trying to launch a game will give a warning that 'this account is already playing a game elsewhere and if you continue it will kick them out'.

You already get the warning you are looking for.

[Sticky Honeybuns]

My daughter, who is only 5, I let her play the Lego games on one of my PC's all the time. If I go try and play a game on my other PC it will always come up and say something like this,

"You are logged into steam playing on another computer, launching this game will disconnect the other computer"

I don't use family sharing though since it's my house and my computers. I just have it logged in at all times on both computers.

[BossGalaga]

Originally posted by Don't Need To Know:

and how could i know whether he's playing so i don't mess his queue up?

Originally posted by Don't Need To Know:

but i and he are logged in in the same time and when i see that he was dc then i realized i messed him up, so at that time, i and he was logged in in the same time

If he was family sharing this would not be a problem. Steam does not support two people logged into the same account at the same time.

There is a simple solution. Use Family Sharing.

[76561198221193232]

Originally posted by ⎛⎝ KARR ⎠⎞:

Without going into the permissions issue.

If you log into an account already in use, it doesn't cause any issues. Trying to launch a game will give a warning that 'this account is already playing a game elsewhere and if you continue it will kick them out'.

You already get the warning you are looking for.

tks. i didn't realize that