If you don't have the same Steam store region, one of you will have to change region so they match. You'd need to do that by buying a game from the region you want to switch to. You'll also need a valid payment method and billing address in that region.

If you don't and can't meet that requirement, you cannot share your library anymore.

That's the end of that.

I had the same situation. We live in the same country (and the same state), but we don't actually live together. Steam wouldn't let them join saying we weren't in the same household.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Chika Ogiue:

If you don't have the same Steam store region, one of you will have to change region so they match. You'd need to do that by buying a game from the region you want to switch to. You'll also need a valid payment method and billing address in that region.

If you don't and can't meet that requirement, you cannot share your library anymore.

We do meet that requirement we all live in the same country 2 of us live in the same town. Region, address and card all showing same country still says we are not it same household.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Nekogod:

We do meet that requirement we all live in the same country 2 of us live in the same town. Region, address and card all showing same country still says we are not it same household.

That happens if your purchase/play history shows you never shared the same location so Steam flags that account as not from the same household.
Its pretty dumb.
A workaround is to have your brothers log into your PC with their Steam accounts, then starting a random game for a minute or two.
After that you can switch to your account and send out the family invite.
For Steam it now shows you both having logged in and played from the same location and the invite will work.
After they joined the family it does no longer matter from where they log in, its really just the invite thats such a pain in the butt to get working.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Ogami:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Nekogod:

We do meet that requirement we all live in the same country 2 of us live in the same town. Region, address and card all showing same country still says we are not it same household.

That happens if your purchase/play history shows you never shared the same location so Steam flags that account as not from the same household.
Its pretty dumb.
A workaround is to have your brothers log into your PC with their Steam accounts, then starting a random game for a minute or two.
After that you can switch to your account and send out the family invite.
For Steam it now shows you both having logged in and played from the same location and the invite will work.
After they joined the family it does no longer matter from where they log in, its really just the invite thats such a pain in the butt to get working.

Thanks, will give that a try!

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Oprindeligt skrevet af Ogami:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Nekogod:

We do meet that requirement we all live in the same country 2 of us live in the same town. Region, address and card all showing same country still says we are not it same household.

That happens if your purchase/play history shows you never shared the same location so Steam flags that account as not from the same household.
Its pretty dumb.
A workaround is to have your brothers log into your PC with their Steam accounts, then starting a random game for a minute or two.
After that you can switch to your account and send out the family invite.
For Steam it now shows you both having logged in and played from the same location and the invite will work.
After they joined the family it does no longer matter from where they log in, its really just the invite thats such a pain in the butt to get working.

As I suspected, it looks for a commonly used system now.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Nekogod:

We do meet that requirement we all live in the same country 2 of us live in the same town. Region, address and card all showing same country still says we are not it same household.

Then as Ogami says, it might be an issue with recorded IP address. Sharing the same IP address for at least one session was meant to also be a requirement in the old sharing system.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Ogami:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Nekogod:

We do meet that requirement we all live in the same country 2 of us live in the same town. Region, address and card all showing same country still says we are not it same household.

That happens if your purchase/play history shows you never shared the same location so Steam flags that account as not from the same household.
Its pretty dumb.
A workaround is to have your brothers log into your PC with their Steam accounts, then starting a random game for a minute or two.
After that you can switch to your account and send out the family invite.
For Steam it now shows you both having logged in and played from the same location and the invite will work.
After they joined the family it does no longer matter from where they log in, its really just the invite thats such a pain in the butt to get working.

Hi, I’m wondering if
A) this still works
and, more importantly, if
B) this would work in reverse (i.e. having whoever OWNS the family share THEIR account temporarily with the person they want to invite, play a bit and then invite them)
How about that?

A: As far as i know this still works fine, recommended the method to someone a few days ago and they said it worked.

B: Since you are not allowed to give someone else your login info this is not recommended.
But from a technical perspective both accounts just need to login to the same PC right after each other so i dont seen why it would not work in reverse. Its just important that the login history shows both accounts logging in from the same location/PC.