Failed to accept the family invite. You are ineligible to join this Steam Family at this time, as your Steam activity doesn't indicate that you are in the same household as other members of this family.

[Chefkoch Soße]

im sharing the same home as 2 other people yet they cant join my steam family

[Nx Machina]

Are you all on the Steam Beta client and all have the same store region?

[Chefkoch Soße]

we are all on the steam familie beta and same region

[Yujah]

You or the others using an e.g. VPN?

[Chefkoch Soße]

no vpn nothing

[Yujah]

You're into psychologically inspired visual novels whereas the others are CounterStrike players?

Just kidding...

I both expect that the only possibility is you asking Steam support and that such is not a realistic possibility either, with them just providing some useless copy/paste answer. Sorry, no idea.

[Ogami]

Did the other accounts buy a game in the last few months?
There is a bug with the Family BETA if a account has not bought anything in a long time and /or did not use a payment method registered in that region that the Family BETA cant read their store region and gives you a "not in the same region" error.
At the moment the only way to fix that is to buy something on those accounts in the store with a external payment method like PayPal or credit card to correctly "lock in" the store region.

Again, this only applies to accounts that have not bought anything in a LONG time, like years.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

The beta requires every person to have the same Steam Store Country (this may require a recent purchase to set the country code on the account) and everyone participating in the Steam beta.

[Chefkoch Soße]

mhm okay i will try to buy something on each

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Chefkoch Soße:

mhm okay i will try to buy something on each

Just buy something cheap for 50 cent or so, just to confirm if its the reason why its not working.

[Camarada Costa]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Originally posted by Chefkoch Soße:

mhm okay i will try to buy something on each

Just buy something cheap for 50 cent or so, just to confirm if its the reason why its not working.

I'm trying to join a friend's family and it doesn't work, I just bought a 50 cent game and it still gives me the same error, I don't know what I can do

[Chefkoch Soße]

your friend has to buy something on your account

[Chefkoch Soße]

that worked for me

[iB]

Originally posted by Chefkoch Soße:

that worked for me

What exactly worked for you? can you please elaborate? thanks

[Chefkoch Soße]

Originally posted by iB:

Originally posted by Chefkoch Soße:

that worked for me

What exactly worked for you? can you please elaborate? thanks

Whoever the family leader is has to buy a cheap thing on other person's account. that tricks steam into thinking that you and the other person live in the same household.

[Finrod Felagund]

Originally posted by Chefkoch Soße:

Originally posted by iB:

What exactly worked for you? can you please elaborate? thanks

Whoever the family leader is has to buy a cheap thing on other person's account. that tricks steam into thinking that you and the other person live in the same household.

So wait, if I'm the family leader, I need to login to the other person's account and buy something from there? Do I have to do it from my own PC? I'm trying to get family sharing to work with an account I just created for my brother (no purchase history) and it's telling me my brother's account is ineligible to join because Steam can't verify we are in the same household despite both living in the same household.