Steam family share screwed me over

[Siroldas]

I'm really beyond frustrated ...
I can't play my own freaking games because my 2nd account is set to another country.

I was messing around and the option to play my games on my 2nd account which I use to test games before I play them is gone.

FF16 Is blocked here so I activated in my other account and guess what I can't family share it due to the recent stupid rules ...

WTF HAPPENED TO STEAM ...
This used to be by far the most user friendly place but now it's getting worse.

I swear I'm thinking of moving on from this damn place cause of this BS...

[Cinemax]

I actually never thought of the old family sharing method as a means to bypass regional censorship. Clever, if totally blown now. Play on your other account with a VPN I suppose?

[Siroldas]

Originally posted by Cinemax:

I actually never thought of the old family sharing method as a means to bypass regional censorship. Clever, if totally blown now. Play on your other account with a VPN I suppose?

Bro I'm planning to 100% every main line FF Game on my steam, don't wanna touch it on the other account, ♥♥♥♥ man, haven't been this angry in so damn long, anyways I'll probably change to another region or something when I can in few months and never changing again to UAE, I'm constantly getting screwed over for the games I want to play now ...

I'll have to buy FF16 again which really sucks as I just paid full price and now I can't play it. Oh well moving on, and ♥♥♥♥ whoever come up with this ♥♥♥♥ at valve/steam whatever

[Cinemax]

Originally posted by Siroldas:

Originally posted by Cinemax:

I actually never thought of the old family sharing method as a means to bypass regional censorship. Clever, if totally blown now. Play on your other account with a VPN I suppose?

Bro I'm planning to 100% every main line FF Game on my steam, don't wanna touch it on the other account, ♥♥♥♥ man, haven't been this angry in so damn long, anyways I'll probably change to another region or something when I can in few months and never changing again to UAE, I'm constantly getting screwed over for the games I want to play now ...

I'll have to buy FF16 again which really sucks as I just paid full price and now I can't play it. Oh well moving on, and ♥♥♥♥ whoever come up with this ♥♥♥♥ at valve/steam whatever

Yeah, "move" to the region your other account is in, since they have to be in the same region to be family now. You'll probably have to "present" as in that region, so VPN is your best bet. Anything running wireguard, wireguard is boss.

[Siroldas]

Originally posted by Cinemax:

Originally posted by Siroldas:

Bro I'm planning to 100% every main line FF Game on my steam, don't wanna touch it on the other account, ♥♥♥♥ man, haven't been this angry in so damn long, anyways I'll probably change to another region or something when I can in few months and never changing again to UAE, I'm constantly getting screwed over for the games I want to play now ...

I'll have to buy FF16 again which really sucks as I just paid full price and now I can't play it. Oh well moving on, and ♥♥♥♥ whoever come up with this ♥♥♥♥ at valve/steam whatever

Yeah, "move" to the region your other account is in, since they have to be in the same region to be family now. You'll probably have to "present" as in that region, so VPN is your best bet. Anything running wireguard, wireguard is boss.

Thanks bro, gotta wait few months before I can change region as well lmao, I just got back to my region so need to wait 3 months or something like that.

So basically no FF16 for 3 months.

♥♥♥♥ man :/

[Chompman]

Messing around with your stores region is not something you ever need to do and any abuse such as with vpn's is a risk to getting your account banned for doing it.

You said the game is banned in your region and what you are doing to bypass that to play it is not allowed on steam.

What you are doing is one of the reasons it was changed because people are abusing it and game devs or countries do not approve of such actions.

[Cinemax]

Originally posted by Siroldas:

Originally posted by Cinemax:

Yeah, "move" to the region your other account is in, since they have to be in the same region to be family now. You'll probably have to "present" as in that region, so VPN is your best bet. Anything running wireguard, wireguard is boss.

Thanks bro, gotta wait few months before I can change region as well lmao, I just got back to my region so need to wait 3 months or something like that.

So basically no FF16 for 3 months.

♥♥♥♥ man :/

Yeah it is absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I've seen a ton of complaints about that restriction, even for use cases that are actually family (which I'd say yours technically qualifies as )... I'm still running the legacy family sharing as I haven't let my client reboot to apply the new update... but even if you were to roll back to this build, it would auto update on login. OH HEY HERE'S AN IDEA - Steam keeps it's previous exe after an update, as steam.exe.old. This one should precede the change to family sharing. Rename the active exe, rename steam.exe.old back to steam.exe. Fully stop and disable the steam client service in services.msc to prevent it from updating again. If it actually lets you log in, it could come up a bugged ass build that still has the old family sharing integration. I don't think the odds are great of this working, mind, let's call it a hail mary at best, but I ~would~ attempt were I in your position. If it doesn't work just revert the changes back and wait out the 3mo cooldown.

[Siroldas]

Originally posted by Chompman:

Messing around with your stores region is not something you ever need to do and any abuse such as with vpn's is a risk to getting your account banned for doing it.

You said the game is banned in your region and what you are doing to bypass that to play it is not allowed on steam.

What you are doing is one of the reasons it was changed because people are abusing it and game devs or countries do not approve of such actions.

Thanks bro, appreciate the advice, if it got to that point though I'll just take it as a sign to stop buying games honestly and move on.

[Siroldas]

Originally posted by Cinemax:

Originally posted by Siroldas:

Thanks bro, gotta wait few months before I can change region as well lmao, I just got back to my region so need to wait 3 months or something like that.

So basically no FF16 for 3 months.

♥♥♥♥ man :/

Yeah it is absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I've seen a ton of complaints about that restriction, even for use cases that are actually family (which I'd say yours technically qualifies as :zageyes:)... I'm still running the legacy family sharing as I haven't let my client reboot to apply the new update... but even if you were to roll back to this build, it would auto update on login. OH HEY HERE'S AN IDEA - Steam keeps it's previous exe after an update, as steam.exe.old. This one should precede the change to family sharing. Rename the active exe, rename steam.exe.old back to steam.exe. Fully stop and disable the steam client service in services.msc to prevent it from updating again. If it actually lets you log in, it could come up a bugged ass build that still has the old family sharing integration. I don't think the odds are great of this working, mind, let's call it a hail mary at best, but I ~would~ attempt were I in your position. If it doesn't work just revert the changes back and wait out the 3mo cooldown.

:(

I Took 5 days off which is hard for me to do to play the game on my main account, I feel like complete ♥♥♥♥ honestly ATM, massive screw over cause of new steam rules that are BS ...

I bought Dragon quests monsters and guess I'll be playing that instead but still am mad AF.
So hard to move on as I freaking paid for it and it always worked before but nope steam got some other plans for me now :/

[ReBoot]

Bypassing regional borders has never been accepted to begin with its actually been prohibited.

Pro tip: something that's clearly not supposed to work but works isn't guaranteed to work. When you're using a loophole, expect it to get closed without notice.

[Siroldas]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Bypassing regional borders has never been accepted to begin with its actually been prohibited.

Pro tip: something that's clearly not supposed to work but works isn't guaranteed to work. When you're using a loophole, expect it to get closed without notice.

Well I spent 70$ on it and can't play it and that sucks my friend.

People who never had this issue for a game they bought and wanted to play so badly won't feel my frustration which I get it but still.

Steam has always been gamers friendly far more than any other platform, I spent 1000s of dollars in here cause man I always felt like the really do want what's best for gamers, Remember when they introduced paid mods and removed them few days later due to gamers reaction?

That made me trust them a lot more, but now WTF is this ♥♥♥♥♥. I wanna play the damn games I bought FFS that's all that I'm asking. Plus I don't like to Jack sparrow my games as I really love having my games on MY main steam account and collecting achievements in the games I love.

ANYWAYS, I can't do anything about it and I'm sure nothing good will happen from me complaining but I'm just trying to let go of some of my frustration is all ...

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Siroldas:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Bypassing regional borders has never been accepted to begin with its actually been prohibited.

Pro tip: something that's clearly not supposed to work but works isn't guaranteed to work. When you're using a loophole, expect it to get closed without notice.

Well I spent 70$ on it and can't play it and that sucks my friend.

For starters, can you really not? What if you log into the account you actually have the game on, still can't play?

Originally posted by Siroldas:

People who never had this issue for a game they bought and wanted to play so badly won't feel my frustration which I get it but still.

Steam has always been gamers friendly far more than any other platform, I spent 1000s of dollars in here cause man I always felt like the really do want what's best for gamers, Remember when they introduced paid mods and removed them few days later due to gamers reaction?

That made me trust them a lot more, but now WTF is this ♥♥♥♥♥. I wanna play the damn games I bought FFS that's all that I'm asking. Plus I don't like to Jack sparrow my games as I really love having my games on MY main steam account and collecting achievements in the games I love.

ANYWAYS, I can't do anything about it and I'm sure nothing good will happen from me complaining but I'm just trying to let go of some of my frustration is all ...

As I just said

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Bypassing regional borders has never been accepted to begin with its actually been prohibited.

Pro tip: something that's clearly not supposed to work but works isn't guaranteed to work. When you're using a loophole, expect it to get closed without notice.

You assuming that a loophole through the rules is guaranteed to remain is a "you" problem. You relying on things that aren't guaranteed to work perpetually is your own fault & no-one else's. You are having this issue because of a mistake you've commited yourself.

[Siroldas]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by Siroldas:

Well I spent 70$ on it and can't play it and that sucks my friend.

For starters, can you really not? What if you log into the account you actually have the game on, still can't play?

Originally posted by Siroldas:

People who never had this issue for a game they bought and wanted to play so badly won't feel my frustration which I get it but still.

Steam has always been gamers friendly far more than any other platform, I spent 1000s of dollars in here cause man I always felt like the really do want what's best for gamers, Remember when they introduced paid mods and removed them few days later due to gamers reaction?

That made me trust them a lot more, but now WTF is this ♥♥♥♥♥. I wanna play the damn games I bought FFS that's all that I'm asking. Plus I don't like to Jack sparrow my games as I really love having my games on MY main steam account and collecting achievements in the games I love.

ANYWAYS, I can't do anything about it and I'm sure nothing good will happen from me complaining but I'm just trying to let go of some of my frustration is all ...

As I just said

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Bypassing regional borders has never been accepted to begin with its actually been prohibited.

Pro tip: something that's clearly not supposed to work but works isn't guaranteed to work. When you're using a loophole, expect it to get closed without notice.

You assuming that a loophole through the rules is guaranteed to remain is a "you" problem. You relying on things that aren't guaranteed to work perpetually is your own fault & no-one else's. You are having this issue because of a mistake you've commited yourself.

Ok bro, have a good day <3

[76561198407601200]

Originally posted by Siroldas:

I'm really beyond frustrated ...
I can't play my own freaking games because my 2nd account is set to another country.

I was messing around and the option to play my games on my 2nd account which I use to test games before I play them is gone.

FF16 Is blocked here so I activated in my other account and guess what I can't family share it due to the recent stupid rules ...

WTF HAPPENED TO STEAM ...
This used to be by far the most user friendly place but now it's getting worse.

I swear I'm thinking of moving on from this damn place cause of this BS...

Best of luck, blocked, etc.

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by Siroldas:

I'm really beyond frustrated ...
I can't play my own freaking games because my 2nd account is set to another country.

I was messing around and the option to play my games on my 2nd account which I use to test games before I play them is gone.

FF16 Is blocked here so I activated in my other account and guess what I can't family share it due to the recent stupid rules ...

WTF HAPPENED TO STEAM ...
This used to be by far the most user friendly place but now it's getting worse.

I swear I'm thinking of moving on from this damn place cause of this BS...

Bye.

But you won't leave. You'll eventually just accept the new standard, begrudgingly.

[Siroldas]

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Originally posted by Siroldas:

I'm really beyond frustrated ...
I can't play my own freaking games because my 2nd account is set to another country.

I was messing around and the option to play my games on my 2nd account which I use to test games before I play them is gone.

FF16 Is blocked here so I activated in my other account and guess what I can't family share it due to the recent stupid rules ...

WTF HAPPENED TO STEAM ...
This used to be by far the most user friendly place but now it's getting worse.

I swear I'm thinking of moving on from this damn place cause of this BS...

Bye.

But you won't leave. You'll eventually just accept the new standard, begrudgingly.

Yeah probably, I mean I can make another profile for the same country to test my games before starting them on my main account to get the achievements, that's one issue gone.

The second I will just change the country to another EU one, might be paying few $$$ more for some games but better than this headache.

If it keeps getting worse then I might go back to my old life style.
Work, Gym, Skydiving, can probably fit Nintendo games there as well.

Anyways I've calmed down a lot 70$ gone and 5 days off kinda wasted but I'll play DQ and go to the gym twice and be more productive in general.

Thanks for everyone who tried to help or give me a solution.
PS Why the guy above blocked me lmao