Steam Families for games available to share...?

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Steam Families for games available to share...?

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Legally you must be at least 13 years old to create a steam account. I don't want to create additional accounts for my little ones and even then, it's against the rules.

Originally posted by Adassko:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Steam Families for games available to share...?

Legally you must be at least 13 years old to create a steam account. I don't want to create additional accounts for my little ones and even then, it's against the rules

You, as the parent, can create your children's accounts and also turn on Family View.

Accounts are intended on a per user(not per family) basis. Make them an account and family share it with them. It is okay to make an account for a child under 13, they just cannot make one themselves.

https://steamhost.cn/help_steampowered_com/en/faqs/view/054C-3167-DD7F-49D4

I just want to keep being logged in on my account on all of my devices, which are occasionally used by other family members.
Why is steam preventing this? Thank you for a valid workaround, but this should just work. I don't see any reason for forcing me to create multiple accounts

Originally posted by Adassko:

I just want to keep logged in on my account on all of my devices, which are occasionally used by others.
Why is steam preventing this? Thank you for a valid workaround, but this should just work. I don't see any reason for forcing me to create multiple accounts

You shouldn't allow anyone on your account anyways.

Ok what if I want to play two games at the same time? I can do that from a single machine, why is it not allowed to do from two machines at a time? I want to hear a valid reason

Originally posted by Adassko:

I don't want to create additional accounts for my little ones and even then, it's against the rules.

It's not, and your kids will appreciate later that you made them one early. Plus Steam Families has a wealth of features that puts the control in your hands as a parent. You can control what they play, when they can play it, and what Steam features they have access to. Everyone can play a different game from the same library at the same time this way too.

Originally posted by Adassko:

Ok what if I want to play two games at the same time? I can do that from a single machine, why is it not allowed to do from two machines at a time? I want to hear a valid reason

Account sharing for commercial purposes is a genuine problem that Valve doesn't want to enable. If you could do this, you could rent out your account login information for profit.

Originally posted by Adassko:

Ok what if I want to play two games at the same time? I can do that from a single machine, why is it not allowed to do from two machines at a time? I want to hear a valid reason

Because it is just one person using the single machine.

Originally posted by Haruspex:

Account sharing for commercial purposes is a genuine problem that Valve doesn't want to enable. If you could do this, you could rent out your account login information for profit.

Account sharing is still a thing and I don't see how this is supposed to prevent it. The only thing it changes is that you need to share multiple accounts, each with one assigned game, instead of a single account. So it just adds a minor inconvenience and doesn't actually prevent anything. If you can easily avoid this limitation by making additional accounts, what is the reason for this limitation? It just doesn't make any sense.

Ok I got my solution, I guess Steam Family View is a way to go for me and thank you guys for it, but I can still see how someone may want to play two games at once (say turn-based rpgs where he needs to wait a lot) and doesn't want to alt-tab between them on a single laptop or drop fps so he uses two laptops for that. I still stand that this limitation is nonsense

Originally posted by Adassko:

Account sharing is still a thing and I don't see how this is supposed to prevent it. The only thing it changes is that you need to share multiple accounts, each with one assigned game, instead of a single account. So it just adds a minor inconvenience and doesn't actually prevent anything.

Right, but enabling it would make it much easier. Valve doesn't want to make it easier.

Originally posted by Adassko:

I can still see how someone may want to play two games at once (say turn-based rpgs where he needs to wait a lot) and doesn't want to alt-tab between them on a single laptop or drop fps so he uses two laptops for that. I still stand that this limitation is nonsense

I can too. There's no doubt it would be nice to have for exactly the situations you're describing, but there's a balance there Valve has to strike between convenience for the users and enabling abuse. At the very least there is a workaround. You can play multiple games on the same account from different machines if the other machine goes into offline mode first.

I'm glad you decided to go with Steam Families. It really is a great feature, and I think you'll enjoy it.

Originally posted by Haruspex:

Right, but enabling it would make it much easier. Valve doesn't want to make it easier.

One more question, how does valve actually control Steam Families? Doesn't it actually make account sharing extremely simple? This seems like a feature designed for account sharing, you don't even need to share password and risk that someone will change it

Originally posted by Adassko:

Originally posted by Haruspex:

Right, but enabling it would make it much easier. Valve doesn't want to make it easier.

One more question, how does valve actually control Steam Families? Doesn't it actually make account sharing extremely simple? This seems like a feature designed for account sharing, you don't even need to share password and risk that someone will change it

Steam families share games with one another, when combined with parental control features and privated games it allows restrictions on what games are shared and what content the child accounts have access to.

Steam families also have IP or general region restrictions to prevent long distance sharing, and when you leave one family you cannot join a new one for a year.
https://steamhost.cn/help_steampowered_com/en/faqs/view/054C-3167-DD7F-49D4

It doesn't matter what you think or feel about it, Steam has rules and you agreed to them when you set up your account, perhaps re-read the SSA / TOS agreement.

Originally posted by pckirk:

It doesn't matter what you think or feel about it, Steam has rules and you agreed to them when you set up your account, perhaps re-read the SSA / TOS agreement.

that's a suggestion to change it, in your mind there's no reason for this whole forum section cause people just agreed to existing rules and nothing can be changed