Steam Family Sharing Thread: Share games that you will never play.

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MRORANGE

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Steam Family Sharing allows you share games from your steam account with other users. This thread is for letting gaffers share their games.
The Beta is open to the first 1000 users during mid September, but more invites are coming soon. For more info click here.

Info:

- ONLY share games with people that you trust.
- You will need to give your login credentials.
- Do not cheat in games which can cause a VAC BAN.
- You can only share with 10 people max and it's your entire library.
- For more information read the FAQ at the bottom of the page.

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I wish we could share specific games instead of libraries. Intrigued in this thread tho

Also, the "games I want to share thing" seems kinda useless because of that, I have too many games to list

Also, better make the link private behind email tags. Lurkers will abuse.
 
My biggest question here is how does this affect Trading Cards?
I'm assuming that shared games won't drop them. Would be odd if they did.
Since the Faq doesn't even mention them.
 
So you're going to give out your account password to some random stranger on the internet just for the chance of getting continually booted off their games whenever they sign on? Ok...
 
Shambles said:
So you're going to give out your account password to some random stranger on the internet just for the chance of getting continually booted off their games whenever they sign on? Ok...
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Excellent reading comprehension, dude.

No you don't give out your account password
No you don't get booted off when they sign on

100%!
 
I'm pretty sure this doesn't make any sense?

You have to share your entire library and you can only share with up to 10 people (devices).

edit: A better way might be just for people to post screenshots of their libraries so that we can just get in touch with those whose libraries compliment our own.
 
Great stuff! I live in the UK and don't get to game a lot, so happy to share with someone on the other side of the world with a few games to share.

Where is JaseC anyway?
I kid.
 
MRORANGE said:
Rules:

- Please share as much as you request in the spreadsheet, It's unfair if others just leech games while not letting others play their games.
- Do not share games which can cause a VAC BAN.
- You can only share with 10 people max and it's your entire library.
- For more information read the FAQ at the bottom of the page.

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How can you... well Prevent sharing games that can cause a VAC BAN when you can only share your entire library of games not just select games?
 
Mithos said:
How can you... well Prevent sharing games that can cause a VAC BAN when you can only share your entire library of games not just select games?
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Good point actually, well in that case you are pretty much screwed if you do occur a vac ban. Changing it to a warning.

EDIT: for the record, you do not get the VAC BAN but your family sharing privileges will be revoked.
 
I've read the faq and I still don't understand how to share my games on a computer I don't have (or never had) access to :(. Help me out here guys, how does the process work exactly?
 
kulapik said:
I mean, how Steam know who is playing if he is disconnected?
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the other person has to be online to play and needs to be request first if I recall which most likely will prohibit the other user going into offline mode while their library is being accessed.

Stronghammer22 said:
I know the FAQ says "share remotely", but according to Valve employee Christen, you need to have access to the machine you're authorising.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/familysharing/discussions/0/846964363936308178/#c846964363936879464
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oh wow :| it even says remote access on the 2nd paragraph of the main page and FAQ:

HOW DO I ENABLE FAMILY SHARING ON MY COMPUTER?
Family Sharing is enabled in one of two ways: You can either locally enable sharing in Account Settings, with Family Sharing & Devices, or remotely respond to a user’s Steam request to share your previously installed games via email.
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MRORANGE said:
the other person has to be online to play and needs to be request first if I recall which most likely will prohibit the other user going into offline mode while their library is being accessed.



oh wow :| it even says remote access on the 2nd paragraph of the main page and FAQ:
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Family Sharing is enabled in one of two ways: You can either locally enable sharing in Account Settings, with Family Sharing & Devices, or remotely respond to a user’s Steam request to share your previously installed games via email.
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It's badly worded, but people definitely misunderstand this part.
The only thing that can be done remotely is this:

I installed Bioshock Infinite on device A on my account. Some other family member/friend logs into his Steam account on device A and sees that Bioshock Infinite is installed on it, but can't play it since he doesn't own it himself. Now he can send me a request to remotely authorise the PC for family sharing and can play my games if I accept.
This is not supposed to be a  PS3 style account sharing thing.

So Shambles was right, to share your library with anyone, you do need to give out your username and password at least once.

There's also this:
See a family member's installed game that you want to play? Send them a request to authorize the computer. Once authorized, the lender's library of Steam games become available for others on the machine to access, download and play.
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I wonder how people think the requesting would work otherwise. I can click on any game that is out there and get a list of everybody on my FL that owns it (and installed it previously.. somewhere?) so I can spam them with share requests?
 
Shambles redeemed

FAQ needs to be revised to reflect that. To me, it sounds like 'gamesharing' on PSN. I wonder if there are words in Steam's TOS that says you can't share your password around. I guess it's intended for real-life friends
 
Wario64 said:
Shambles redeemed

FAQ needs to be revised to reflect that. To me, it sounds like 'gamesharing' on PSN. I wonder if there are words in Steam's TOS that says you can't share your password around. I guess it's intended for real-life friends
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It's intended for family members. A thread like this is why we can't have nice things. The entire purpose of this thread is to try to abuse the system Valve put in place.
 
Avallon said:
It's intended for family members. A thread like this is why we can't have nice things. The entire purpose of this thread is to try to abuse the system Valve put in place.
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I'm pretty sure it won't work anyway.

It says you can use email to get permission for a computer with a game the sharer has "previously installed." My guess is you have to have logged in on that PC before.
 
Huh.

A friend got into the beta and authorized me. So we wanted to check the restrictions. Downloaded and played Peggle Deluxe (only 18mb) and it works as advertised.
But, i wanted to check what happens when i switch to Offline Mode and to my surprise i was able to play the game freely. I didn't get any warnings and my friend who was online in Steam was able to play his games as usual.

What's going on? Beta glitch? Can developers decide on each case whether to allow play in offline mode with no (apparent?) restrictions? Is Family Sharing actually designed to allow that?
 
i'm not using this until steam allows us to specifically share what games we want. i surely don't want anyone to try playing any of the games that are VAC secured. they should have done it where the other account gets banned and whatnot rather place blame on the original person even if they were held responsible for sharing with so called "trusted family"

also was in it ages ago. just never used it ;P
 
Stupid question, can I authorize someone who's not in the beta to play my library?

Saty said:
Huh.

A friend got into the beta and authorized me. So we wanted to check the restrictions. Downloaded and played Peggle Deluxe (only 18mb) and it works as advertised.
But, i wanted to check what happens when i switch to Offline Mode and to my surprise i was able to play the game freely. I didn't get any warnings and my friend who was online in Steam was able to play his games as usual.

What's going on? Beta glitch? Can developers decide on each case whether to allow play in offline mode with no (apparent?) restrictions? Is Family Sharing actually designed to allow that?
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Huh.
 
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