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nous@programming.dev 3 weeks agoThey 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.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Can I just declare my family member and then have access to that library?
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
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.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sounds fair enough, and not a problem here.
MeatSweat@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yes
tkohldesac@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
Jikiya@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.