Steam Family Members

[reverence]

My brother can't join my steam family because he lives in different country. Is there gonna be fixes to such situations?
Also steam support says that there no evidences in our activity that we are actually brothers. How can anyone even check something like that?! And we are not able to share our libraries with friends anymore? Only with close relatives?

[Ogami]

Correct. Steam Families is meant for close family members in the same household.
Not "friends" in other countries.
That was already the case with the old family share if you looked at the rules, it was just easily circumvented so you could setup sharing with people in other countries.
Valve explicitly invented this new system so they can now enforce those rules.

So yeah, the regional restrictions will 100% stay since thats the whole point of Steam Families.

[reverence]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Correct. Steam Families is meant for close family members in the same household.
Not "friends" in other countries.
That was already the case with the old family share if you looked at the rules, it was just easily circumvented so you could setup sharing with people in other countries.
Valve explicitly invented this new system so they can now enforce those rules.

So yeah, the regional restrictions will 100% stay since thats the whole point of Steam Families.

This is just another money grind strategy. Now I can't share my game library with anyone. Friends, girlfriend and not even with my BROTHER, because he lives in different country. Seems like you can share library only with people who live under the same roof with you. (not sure if you can even in that case)

Fancy feature that almost no one is gonna use. Bravo.
To me it's obvious that this is just a way to force people buy more game copies.

I can't believe you stupid enough to prase this greedy stuff and say that everything is ment to be like this.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Dich9732:

I can't believe you stupid enough to prase this greedy stuff and say that everything is ment to be like this.

I must have missed where i have "praised" anything, i just explained the reasons of Valve and why they made this new system.
I know that for some users this new system will be a downgrade.
But it also has its good sides. For me personally this is way more useful then before.
I have multiple family members who are game collectors like myself where it was never useful to share games with because they basically played all the time and during the same times as myself.
Meaning their library was always " in use" and thus not accessible to me.

With the new system you can play games from the same library at the same time and even choose the version you want to play if you have different DLC and so on.
My available games did raise from 4200 to nearly 9000 over night.
So for me the system is a MASSIVE improvement.

But i also am not blind that for other users like yourself its not and i am sorry for that.
But its nothing i can change and from all we seen of Valve and their reasoning the regional restrictions are 100% staying in place.

[reverence]

Originally posted by Ogami:

With the new system you can play games from the same library at the same time and even choose the version you want to play if you have different DLC and so on.
My available games did raise from 4200 to nearly 9000 over night.
So for me the system is a MASSIVE improvement.

So is that your wife who collect games or your children? Maybe your dad or mom? How did you manage to add those people to your family group?

The only person in my family who plays on steam is my brother. And because of this new restrictions we can't join same family group. It's extremely unfair.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Dich9732:

So is that your wife who collect games or your children? Maybe your dad or mom? How did you manage to add those people to your family group?

The only person in my family who plays on steam is my brother. And because of this new restrictions we can't join same family group. It's extremely unfair.

I was lucky and joined the Steam Family BETA when it first came out in March.
At that point there were not local restrictions to joining, only that you had to be in the same country.
So i created a family with my collector friends from Steam.
We are all in Germany but not really that physically close to each other.

In July or so Valve introduced the stricter rules for joining like people have to live physically close to you or at least their login location have to show it.

Which btw is still a workaround for the invitation.
Let any person (in the same country) that you want in a family log into your PC with their account and start any game for 1-2 minutes. Then switch over to your own account and send them an invite to your family. It will now work since their last login IP and playsession IP shows the same location as you.
After they joined the family it really does not matter from where they login (as long as its in the same country).