My little sister and I can no longer do family share, why?

[VinelMint]

On the website it says for "close family" up to 6 members. We are full blood sisters, she recently moved to UK for school, and suddenly we are no longer considered close family?

Please change the wording on there. I imagine what Valve meant was, "for legal reasons, family sharing is for people in the same region." It is so rude and hurtful during such a new time for my family to see as if moving away is suddenly a split in the family. Can't get "closer" than full blood sisters, but according to Valve we're no longer related.

[rawWwRrr]

Close as in proximity, not blood percentages.

[VinelMint]

rawWwRrr の投稿を引用：

Close as in proximity, not blood percentages.

With how many beautiful words there are in the English language, perhaps they should have thought about which word they'd use.

[rawWwRrr]

VinelMint の投稿を引用：

rawWwRrr の投稿を引用：

Close as in proximity, not blood percentages.

With how many beautiful words there are in the English language, perhaps they should have thought about which word they'd use.

Ok.

Creating a Steam Family:
Steam Families can contain up to 6 family members.

I don't see any distinctions in that statement.

Who can be in a Steam Family?

While we know that families come in many shapes and sizes, Steam Families is intended for a household of up to 6 close family members.

The keyword in that statement is "household" assuming the family members within that household are "close". Considering your sister moved to the UK, they are no longer a close family member within the same household, not a statement of whether or not you two are still indeed close.

I really feel like we're nitpicking at this point.

[VinelMint]

rawWwRrr の投稿を引用：

VinelMint の投稿を引用：

With how many beautiful words there are in the English language, perhaps they should have thought about which word they'd use.

Ok.

Creating a Steam Family:
Steam Families can contain up to 6 family members.

I don't see any distinctions in that statement.

Who can be in a Steam Family?

While we know that families come in many shapes and sizes, Steam Families is intended for a household of up to 6 close family members.

The keyword in that statement is "household" assuming the family members within that household are "close". Considering your sister moved to the UK, they are no longer a close family member within the same household, not a statement of whether or not you two are still indeed close.

I really feel like we're nitpicking at this point.

Nitpicking?! We still have to file taxes TOGETHER in the United States of America!!! If the federal government count us as a family unit, then what makes this any different?

[FFL2and3rocks]

The difference is they can't confirm that she is actually your sister. You can thank the freeloaders who pretended to be related to their Steam friends on the other side of the planet to play eachother's games for free.

[Chompman]

Steam families forum is here:

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamfamilies/discussions/

The information about this updated version is here:

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/054C-3167-DD7F-49D4

Being in two different regions will not work anymore and that's all that matters.

[76561198407601200]

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rawWwRrr の投稿を引用：

Ok.

I don't see any distinctions in that statement.

The keyword in that statement is "household" assuming the family members within that household are "close". Considering your sister moved to the UK, they are no longer a close family member within the same household, not a statement of whether or not you two are still indeed close.

I really feel like we're nitpicking at this point.

Nitpicking?! We still have to file taxes TOGETHER in the United States of America!!! If the federal government count us as a family unit, then what makes this any different?

Your tax filings have nothing to do with you and your sister requiring both of your steam accounts to be in the same country in order to use family sharing, no amount of your misunderstanding will change that.

[RPG Gamer Man]

You can thank families that were "abusing" this system by having the family halfway around the world, or using VPN's to fake being in the same family. These type of people ruined it for you and your sister. If you get mad, i suggest you do it towards those individuals who abused this system for years before steam decided to fix this system from being abused.

If it was not abused, then more gaming systems would allow it, but we live in a world full of liars and scammers. So that is why we cannot have good things anymore.

[nullable]

VinelMint の投稿を引用：

Nitpicking?! We still have to file taxes TOGETHER in the United States of America!!! If the federal government count us as a family unit, then what makes this any different?

Have you provided Valve with all the personal information about you and your sister as exists with the U.S. government? No? Then I guess circumstances are different and you're just moving the goal posts after your complaint about insufficient language fell over.

Also, before family share and your sister's move proved an inconvenience how eager would you have been to provide Valve with gobs of personal information? My guess is not eager because, "why is Valve requiring all this when GOG or Epic does not??"

Yeah, it's an inconvenience, you're just not the primary use case for family sharing.

[󠁳⁧⁧ les yeux sans visage]

VinelMint の投稿を引用：

rawWwRrr の投稿を引用：

Close as in proximity, not blood percentages.

With how many beautiful words there are in the English language, perhaps they should have thought about which word they'd use.

Its funny how you interpret the meaning "close" As in blood relation.

Anyway, if you still cant get your sister to join your family sharing, set both of you and your sister Steam on the same region and try send the invite again.

One thing that I know is that your sister account would only able to accept the invite if she connect to the same WiFi as you are. Considering you both on a different country, so you probably need to log in to her account and accept the invite yourself.

[Crazy Tiger]

󠁳⁧⁧ ꜰᴀ𐕣ᴇ の投稿を引用：

VinelMint の投稿を引用：

With how many beautiful words there are in the English language, perhaps they should have thought about which word they'd use.

Its funny how you interpret the meaning "close" As in blood relation.

Anyway, if you still cant get your sister to join your family sharing, set both of you and your sister Steam on the same region and try send the invite again.

One thing that I know is that your sister account would only able to accept the invite if she connect to the same WiFi as you are. Considering you both on a different country, so you probably need to log in to her account and accept the invite yourself.

Won't she get kicked when she logs in herself in the UK?

I doubt Valve left that loophole in. Though, it's Valve.

[Lithurge]

󠁳⁧⁧ ꜰᴀ𐕣ᴇ の投稿を引用：

Its funny how you interpret the meaning "close" As in blood relation.

Why? It's an accepted legal definition that close family member is your immediate family, as distinct from aunts, uncles, cousins etc... That definition does not mean you have to live with them in the same house. Of course the OP is ignoring the later part of the sentence that refers to same household.

[76561198407601200]

Crazy Tiger の投稿を引用：

󠁳⁧⁧ ꜰᴀ𐕣ᴇ の投稿を引用：

Its funny how you interpret the meaning "close" As in blood relation.

Anyway, if you still cant get your sister to join your family sharing, set both of you and your sister Steam on the same region and try send the invite again.

One thing that I know is that your sister account would only able to accept the invite if she connect to the same WiFi as you are. Considering you both on a different country, so you probably need to log in to her account and accept the invite yourself.

Won't she get kicked when she logs in herself in the UK?

I doubt Valve left that loophole in. Though, it's Valve.

It is also rather interesting how since the change in family sharing a lot of family members have suddenly moved to far away places.