Shareing games

[Skippie]

How do I share games? I want to share a couple of my games with my grandson.

[Emilio]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/4149575031735702628

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Steps:
1. Open Steam client > open settings > click interface > opt Steam into steam beta families.

2. Repeat process for your grandson account on grandson PC.

3. Now open Steam client > open Steam settings > family > create group from there name your group. Once done just click invite select your grandson account that it.

Please note have to do this on same household, that mean on the same network.

[Skippie]

So this is changing how things were shared? This is kind of crazy and defeats the purpose of sharing with family in my opinion. The games I want to share with my grandson I don't even play anymore so they sit in my library unused.

[Emilio]

Originally posted by Skippie:

So this is changing how things were shared? This is kind of crazy and defeats the purpose of sharing with family in my opinion. The games I want to share with my grandson I don't even play anymore so they sit in my library unused.

Using the new steam family share beta allows you and your family member to play games at the same time as opposed to the old family share where only one person could play at a time.
So they could play family shared games on their account while you're also gaming.

Some games such as anything from Rockstar (GTA, Red Dead Redemtion) just as an example can not be shared with family sharing.

[Skippie]

yes but my grand kids don't live with me Thankfully, so the family share will be of no use. This seems like a step backwards if it requires the users to be on the same network.

[Emilio]

Originally posted by Skippie:

yes but my grand kids don't live with me Thankfully, so the family share will be of no use. This seems like a step backwards if it requires the users to be on the same network.

I am not 100% sure but I think after the initial setup they don't have to on the same network anymore to share games.
I could be wrong of course but I would say try it and see if it works after setting it up on the same network.

I sadly can not provide a better answer then that.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Please note have to do this on same household, that mean on the same network.

This is definitely not always the case. I run 2 Steam Families (different accounts) and none of the 10 other members combined are even close to me. All in the same country but up to 300 km away from me.
And i still could invite them all to the Steam Family and everything works fine.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by Skippie:

So this is changing how things were shared? This is kind of crazy and defeats the purpose of sharing with family in my opinion. The games I want to share with my grandson I don't even play anymore so they sit in my library unused.

What we telling you is to use new family share that currently in beta, it allows your grandson to play any of your games whenever, even if you're playing one of your other games, you can play game call Doom, while your grandson play your other game Halo at the same time.

The old family share prevents your grandson from playing any of your games, if you're playing a game at any time, as it only allow ONE person to play from your library at a time. That why the new family beta is way better, and will be replacing the old one someday.

Originally posted by Skippie:

yes but my grand kids don't live with me Thankfully, so the family share will be of no use. This seems like a step backwards if it requires the users to be on the same network.

This is only for set up process to doing group invite that have to be on same network.

Originally posted by Ogami:

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Please note have to do this on same household, that mean on the same network.

This is definitely not always the case. I run 2 Steam Families (different accounts) and none of the 10 other members combined are even close to me. All in the same country but up to 300 km away from me.
And i still could invite them all to the Steam Family and everything works fine.

I'm getting mix info as well during March it's basically anywhere as long it in same country, but for some reason either in April, or later seem this was changed, and people getting reports have to do it when in same household / same network. This is resolved simply just logging their account on same PC, and doing it from there basically.

Anyways I'm going with info AFAIK until Steam gives us better documentations which I assume when they release new family share to public.