share steam account ??

nightrider1470 · 8 Dec 2014 at 15:13

Can I build a pc for my son in his room and he can play my steam games ??

cheesyboy · 8 Dec 2014 at 15:15

http://store.steampowered.com/promotion/familysharing

However, I believe only one of you can be logged on at a time.

nightrider1470 · 8 Dec 2014 at 15:21

Cool, thanks

GamingSlug · 8 Dec 2014 at 15:32

I use this with a mate, works great although yea he can only play my games if I'm not playing.

Gimpymoo · 8 Dec 2014 at 16:30

cheesyboy said:
http://store.steampowered.com/promotion/familysharing

However, I believe only one of you can be logged on at a time.

DO NOT DO IT.

Family sharing for the purpose you want is useless.

Witcher1979 · 8 Dec 2014 at 16:33

Well maybe and maybe not. If it is single player games just stick your sons PC into offline mode and he can play them all and you can to at the same time. Bad thing here is only one of you can play online at a time, unless it is lan then you can play each other.

vintage-x · 8 Dec 2014 at 16:34

Gimpymoo said:
DO NOT DO IT.

Family sharing for the purpose you want is useless.

Why don't do it? Sounds like a good solution

FloppyPoppy · 8 Dec 2014 at 16:37

Witcher1979 said:
Well maybe and maybe not. If it is single player games just stick your sons PC into offline mode and he can play them all and you can to at the same time. Bad thing here is only one of you can play online at a time, unless it is lan then you can play each other.

^ this, my dad plays in the front room offline and I play online all games are installed on both sides and we just update them weekly runs great! And you can always swap around on/off the internet depending who is playing what

Gimpymoo · 8 Dec 2014 at 16:43

vintage-x said:
Why don't do it? Sounds like a good solution

Until you try it. it is utterly useless which is why most will suggest using "Offline Mode" as a long term solution.

They call it "Family Sharing"... God forbid 2 people in my household wanting to play 2 seperate games from my library at the same time. *$%& you Valve.

For the record, I also just use Offline Mode although as a better solution, I do not purchase games from Steam where possible now owing to their sharing implementation or lack thereof.

Humble Store and GOG.

Purchase DRM free, place installers on network share, they can do as they wish.

The Family sharing implementation in its current form is almost useless for those who want to share their library with anyone in the same house and play games themselves.

It is so backards, if I am playing a Free to Play game, the other person is locked out from my library.

GamingSlug · 8 Dec 2014 at 18:26

Gimpymoo said:
It is so backards, if I am playing a Free to Play game, the other person is locked out from my library.

I know it shouldnt have to be done but as its a F2P can you not get the other person to D/L it and you play it on thier library while they use yours? Not tried it myself tho, just an idea

spoffle · 8 Dec 2014 at 18:29

Gimpymoo said:
Until you try it. it is utterly useless which is why most will suggest using "Offline Mode" as a long term solution.

They call it "Family Sharing"... God forbid 2 people in my household wanting to play 2 seperate games from my library at the same time. *$%& you Valve.

For the record, I also just use Offline Mode although as a better solution, I do not purchase games from Steam where possible now owing to their sharing implementation or lack thereof.

Humble Store and GOG.

Purchase DRM free, place installers on network share, they can do as they wish.

The Family sharing implementation in its current form is almost useless for those who want to share their library with anyone in the same house and play games themselves.

It is so backards, if I am playing a Free to Play game, the other person is locked out from my library.

It's hardly ideal, but they have nothing to lose by trying it, it's not like it'll cost them money.

stopper · 8 Dec 2014 at 19:12

Gimpymoo said:
The Family sharing implementation in its current form is almost useless for those who want to share their library with anyone in the same house and play games themselves.

It is so backards, if I am playing a Free to Play game, the other person is locked out from my library.

You must have some thing mixed up, because I share my games with my daughter's account on her PC and my missus' on her laptop, and we can all play games from my library at the same time. The only limit we have is we can't all play the same game at the same time.
As for F2P games, hide the shared library and install the one from your own library, it works perfectly.

DaleTheWhale · 8 Dec 2014 at 19:22

stopper said:
You must have some thing mixed up, because I share my games with my daughter's account on her PC and my missus' on her laptop, and we can all play games from my library at the same time. The only limit we have is we can't all play the same game at the same time.
As for F2P games, hide the shared library and install the one from your own library, it works perfectly.

Not possible.

Can two users share a library and both play at the same time?
No, a shared library may only be accessed by one user at a time.

trentlad · 8 Dec 2014 at 19:23

Steam Family share is a bit strange.

I started using it during the first week it was launched, managed to get it setup and I had full access to my brothers account with the ability to install and play any game offline. After a month I could no longer see his library on my interface, it completely dissapeared and when I tried to play previously installed games it displayed a request permission to play message.

I haven't been able to play a single thing from his library since but haven't tried to troubleshoot either.

Since he has an entirely different taste to me in gaming it was a perfect tool to try out a game before I bought it.

Witcher1979 · 8 Dec 2014 at 19:28

stopper said:
You must have some thing mixed up, because I share my games with my daughter's account on her PC and my missus' on her laptop, and we can all play games from my library at the same time. The only limit we have is we can't all play the same game at the same time.
As for F2P games, hide the shared library and install the one from your own library, it works perfectly.

The only way you could play on 3 machines on the same steam account is if 2 were in offline mode, All 3 can not be online and playing games.

trentlad · 8 Dec 2014 at 19:49

Gimpymoo said:
They call it "Family Sharing"... God forbid 2 people in my household wanting to play 2 seperate games from my library at the same time. *$%& you Valve...as a better solution, I do not purchase games from Steam where possible now owing to their sharing implementation or lack thereof.

Humble Store and GOG. Purchase DRM free, place installers on network share, they can do as they wish.

Entitled much?

You can't normally share games that require registration with a client and all blockbuster titles require a client. In its current state you have to approach this feature as installing your same steam account on the other computer with the added benefit of playing on both while offline.

Using Humble Bundle or GoG as an example is also disingenuous since their blockbuster titles also require a steam/origin/uplay client to activate and hence are not DRM free! It's only great for indie games and you could always buy those directly from the developers website so that's your fault for buying through a client.

Obviously it's ideal if Steam detects two accounts running in the same household and allow separate online games to be played at the same time but I'm sure you can imagine that's no easy task let alone preventing exploits.

I'm just thankful for such a feature since Valve could have easily continued without providing it and I trust it will evolve into a better feature set.

Gimpymoo · 8 Dec 2014 at 22:09

trentlad said:
Entitled much?

To an opinion, Yes thanks

trentlad said:
Using Humble Bundle or GoG as an example is also disingenuous since their blockbuster titles also require a steam/origin/uplay client to activate and hence are not DRM free! It's only great for indie games and you could always buy those directly from the developers website so that's your fault for buying through a client.

Do you know what GOG is?

I also said Humble STORE, not Humble Bundle.

Witcher1979 · 8 Dec 2014 at 22:17

Best way really is to use the offline trick when one person is doing single player, then just pick the games up in a sale again and get a second account for all the online stuff people in the house like. You only have to buy the MP stuff in the sales for a few quid.

Gimpymoo · 8 Dec 2014 at 22:17

ignore.

Drukk · 8 Dec 2014 at 23:00

ThaReaperGuy said:
Not possible.

Can two users share a library and both play at the same time?
No, a shared library may only be accessed by one user at a time.

It is n't supposed to be possible but, for a while, my lad could play games off my steam account while I played something else then one day it just refused and that was that. I think it bugs out sometimes. Both PC's were in online mode permanently.