Two computers one steam purchase

[aceice]

Can i play one game on two computers (and make game between them actually) if i bought the game for one steam account? (make 2nd account and allow the 2nd to use the game on 1st acc) I wanna play BG:EE with my brother but i dont want to buy 2nd copy of the game...

[Big Bad Goat]

You can't do this without both accounts owning the game in question.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You can't do that.

One game per account.
You could share your game with brothers account via Family Sharing, but doing that means that u both still can't play, only one at a time.

If you both want to play at same time, both accounts need to purchase the game. End of story.

[aceice]

this is madness
Topic to close

edit: if i didnt use steam i could do it right?...

[Bad 💀 Motha]

No; especially for a MP game, each person must have their own game (product key) otherwise u both couldn't play at the same time.

[Big Bad Goat]

Originally posted by emszewski:

this is madness
Topic to close

edit: if i didnt use steam i could do it right?...

If you pirated one copy, sure.

[aceice]

Originally posted by Big Bad Goat:

Originally posted by emszewski:

this is madness
Topic to close

edit: if i didnt use steam i could do it right?...

If you pirated one copy, sure.

With old baldur's gate i could install it on 2 computers and play through lan.

[Kargor]

Originally posted by emszewski:

edit: if i didnt use steam i could do it right?...

Possibly. But even pre-Steam, games usually required the CD to be in the drive -- so if you had only one CD, only one person could play the game.

There were rare exceptions to this -- WarCraft II, for example, allowed multiplayer matches without the CD being present, with up to 3 players per CD. They even counted expansion CDs, so with just the game and the expansion you could run a 6 player game. But that was an exception, not the rule.

[Big Bad Goat]

The fact that game has no DRM doesn't mean you buy 1 copy and share it with friends.

[Kargor]

Originally posted by Big Bad Goat:

The fact that game has no DRM doesn't mean you buy 1 copy and share it with friends.

Well, I'm slightly less restrictive about such things. Sharing with friends = no. Letting friends participate in a multiplayer match is fine with me (and yes, this might even be possible with Steam, if the game has a LAN mode. I do this to run multiple copies of Borderlands to swap items between chars, without requiring a pirated copy that's compatible with the version on Steam).

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Games that allow LAN, sometimes do allow this kind of thing to work.
However games you play via Online Multiplayer, general rule is each player must have their own CD/Product Key. As that is usually how each player is tracked. Or sometimes it's simply the user itself, like Steam with it's VAC games for example. If you hack/cheat in-game, your Key and/or User could be banned from using that game any longer.