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Family Sharing is a feature that developers may opt their games out of for technical or other reasons at any time.
Ubisoft, EA, and Rockstar running to opt out every one of their games.
Kudos to Valve, but for us remember as a general rule that if they have their own launcher, they have no interest in sharing.
opt out was already possible with the old system, and most devs didn’t opt out
Even Fall Guys only did it because Cheaters running rampant with family share.
but bans do propagate?
Unfortunately no at that time.
A bunch of people are going to become related all of a sudden really quick!
Honestly though, my partner and I already use the family sharing extensively, so I hope this is an improvement. It is kind of tedious right now that you have to physically log in to the other person’s machine to be able to add them to your family sharing plan, so any kind of improvement on that front is welcome.
Yup, hopefully this makes that smoother.
We have three accounts linked: mine, SO, kids (they share one). I occasionally gift games to my SO and kids accounts, and each time I need to login to their accounts to accept/add the gift key or whatever. I go through this nonsense so my kids, SO, and I can play different games at the same time, but the kids can still only play one at a time (hasn’t been a problem so far).
I have three kids and haven’t made individual accounts because it’s annoying enough as it is to manage three, but if this makes it easier, I’ll probably get them their own accounts.
I already tried it, apply ASAP for the Family Beta. Now both of my kids can simultaneously use my library as long as they play a different game. Before, only one of my kids was allowed to borrow from my library, the rest of it was locked down. Amazing update.
What if you’re in multiple families (polycules)?
Edge case that almost affects nobody. Just make 1 family for all or create a second acc and put it in a second family. And if they add it it would probably be abused more than used for it’s intended use.
Lots of people are in multiple families. Probably even most people. Most people have two sets of cousins. And lots of people have a family of their parents and siblings and a family of their spouse and kids. I have steam library sharing with my partner and my partner has library sharing with its roommate, who has library sharing with other people. Is this new system gonna screw us?
There is a max amount of people and they have to be in the same country otherwise it doesn’t matter so far. But they are probably watching it for abuse.
They’re introducing new rules about being in the same country?? Fuck, this news gets worse and worse.
That is a bit fucked up for Europe, where it’s much more likely to be on the border of another country.
Plus queer people are more likely to have international families due to the discrimination. Especially queer people from queerphobic countries like Saudi Arabia. This rule change is homophobic and racist.
This is amazing! And a long-overdue change. Now both of my kids can simultaneously use my library as long as they play a different game. Before, only one of my kids was allowed to borrow from my library, the rest of it was locked down.
