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Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 days agoI don’t see how family share solves anything, I looked it up a few years ago, and it seemed pretty useless.
What exactly does family share do that is actually useful?
They updated it in September:
Family Sharing enables you to play games from other family members’ libraries, even if they are online playing another game. If your family library has multiple copies of a game, multiple members of the family can play that game at the same time. For a more detailed look at how Family Sharing works, see the FAQ below.
They changed it recently where you can have two members of a family able to play two different games at ones (or rather number of copies of the game at once).
But that requires different accounts even if one account owns all the games.
Can I just declare my family member and then have access to that library?
Yes, but there are limitations on switching, iirc something like 6 months between being able to join a different family and so on. They don’t really matter for actual families, but does if you just want to share games with a bunch of friends.
Sounds fair enough, and not a problem here.
Yes
With a caveat - you need to share an ip address with the user at some point. A friend of mine logged into Steam on a pc in my house to get around that issue but my brother (who’s 1400 miles away) joined my family with no issues because we lived together at some point a decade ago.
I have a family set up with my brother, two childhood friends, and one of the friends wife. They don’t check anything, just have to be invited to join.
And atm, ive been playing Oblivion at the same time as my friend, just have to go offline before starting the game.
OK sounds like we should try it out.
Funny you mention Oblivion, because that’s one of the games I don’t have, but my wife does.
Master@lemm.ee 4 days ago
It lets you play a game on your account while someone else plays a different game from your account. Its literally the solution for ops issue.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I just enabled family share with my wife, but none of us has the games of the other?
And there is no hint of why?
Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Sorry, there apparently was a second mail the joining party needed to confirm, works now! 👍 😎 😋