Comment on Has the Deck turned *off* any other Steam users?

• 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.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sounds fair enough, and not a problem here.

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• MeatSweat@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes

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  • 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.

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• 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.

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  • 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.

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