Family sharing toggle not appearing

[The Revenant Hero]

So I had hit the toggle for enabling family sharing because I was having issues seeing the library I was sharing via family share. But after disabling family sharing, the toggle vanished and now I can't do family sharing at all. How do I fix this?

[Ogami]

The old family share system no longer exist. It has been replaced by the new "Steam Families" system that left BETA two days ago.
You now can create/join a Steam Family of up to 6 users. Everyone in the family automatically shares all their games with everyone else in the family.

Read through the NEWS and the FAQ how to setup a Steam Family.
Also carefully read about the new restrictions compared to the old Family Share system.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/4605582245626919823

[The Revenant Hero]

Originally posted by Ogami:

The old family share system no longer exist. It has been replaced by the new "Steam Families" system that left BETA two days ago.
You now can create/join a Steam Family of up to 6 users. Everyone in the family automatically shares all their games with everyone else in the family.

Read through the NEWS and the FAQ how to setup a Steam Family.
Also carefully read about the new restrictions compared to the old Family Share system.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/4605582245626919823

Ah ok. That explains it. Though I feel like I'm missing something. what are the restrictions?

[Ogami]

Originally posted by The Revenant Hero:

Ah ok. That explains it. Though I feel like I'm missing something. what are the restrictions?

You no longer can share with users from other countries. All family members must be from the same country and have their steam store region set to the same one.
Also if you leave or get kicked from a family there is a 1 year cooldown (starting from the time you joined) till you can create/join another family.

On the plus side, multiple users now can play games from the same shared library at the same time and you even can play shared games in offline mode.

[The Revenant Hero]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Originally posted by The Revenant Hero:

Ah ok. That explains it. Though I feel like I'm missing something. what are the restrictions?

You no longer can share with users from other countries. All family members must be from the same country and have their steam store region set to the same one.
Also if you leave or get kicked from a family there is a 1 year cooldown (starting from the time you joined) till you can create/join another family.

On the plus side, multiple users now can play games from the same shared library at the same time and you even can play shared games in offline mode.

Ohhh ok. Well I wasn't sharing a library with people in other countries anyway. BUT A YEAR COOLDOWN FOR LEAVING?! That's asinine.

Yeah I saw that and I'm glad they did. I was so tired of getting booted out of games.

[rayanthony10]

I don't think that's the case. Cause I setup on and sent an invitation to both my brother who live in the same country and region and it's telling us that we have to all be in the same household

[Ogami]

Originally posted by rayanthony10:

I don't think that's the case. Cause I setup on and sent an invitation to both my brother who live in the same country and region and it's telling us that we have to all be in the same household

Yeah that can happen if the purchase history of one user shows they never been near the same location as you.
A workaround is to just log into your PC with the Steam account of your brother and start any game for 1-2 minutes.
Then log out and switch to your own account and send him the family invite and accept it at your location.
This will work and they are now in the family.
After that it no longer matters where they are, its just the initial invite that can be a pain.

[Lostfox Chrozzy]

To be fair, it's kinda bs because I had the same issue and now I can't play anything from my boyfriends library anymore just because he lives in the Netherlands and I'm in Germany.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Lostfox Chrozzy:

To be fair, it's kinda bs because I had the same issue and now I can't play anything from my boyfriends library anymore just because he lives in the Netherlands and I'm in Germany. :CryingGhost:

Yeah, the new restrictions ain't too much fun. I'm one of the people who liked the old system more.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Yeah, the new restrictions ain't too much fun. I'm one of the people who liked the old system more.

Its a mixed bag. I lost some good connections because they were from other countries.
BUT on the other hand, with this new system that allows simultanous play of the same library it finally made sense to add two friends who are also heavily into gaming and game collecting.
Previously it was pointless to share with them since they usually always online and playing at the same time as myself, so their libraries were always "in use".
With the new Family system this no longer matters and so we now have a combined pool of nearly 9.000 games to choose from with no real playtime restriction.
Which is pretty sweet.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Yeah, the new restrictions ain't too much fun. I'm one of the people who liked the old system more.

Its a mixed bag. I lost some good connections because they were from other countries.
BUT on the other hand, with this new system that allows simultanous play of the same library it finally made sense to add two friends who are also heavily into gaming and game collecting.
Previously it was pointless to share with them since they usually always online and playing at the same time as myself, so their libraries were always "in use".
With the new Family system this no longer matters and so we now have a combined pool of nearly 9.000 games to choose from with no real playtime restriction.
Which is pretty sweet.
:lunar2019grinningpig:

On the other hand, people have to be in the same "family" now. Before, sharing with 3 people who barely know and certainly don't care about each other (while also getting games from one of them) was easy. Now, one of the people I'm sharing with, who is also getting games from 2 other buds, has to decide what we're going to do with our Sackboy couch co-op campaign as not all of us involved fit into one "family" anymore. Playing games at the same time has never been an issue as most of the people involved got more hobbies than just videogames.

[Ogami]

Thats why i wrote its a mixed bag. For some users like myself the new system is an improvement.
For some users like you the system is a downgrade and more
inconvenient then the old one.