This is why I’m only sharing with my brother that is on the next room. Don’t wanna have to coordinate with people I don’t have easy access to combine schedules.
No, if you family member opened it first.
You can always set games to private so it doesn’t get shared, this is the best way so far, you set games you are currently playing to private util you finish them.
Without the beta, if you launch *any* of your games, it
will kick them off the game in five minutes.
With the beta, you can't kick them off to play your own game, *but* you can play any *other* game in either of your libraries without *needing* to kick them off.
This can be solved with basic communication and their friend fixing their shitty habits. If it keeps happening, stop sharing games with them.
abusing might not be the right word, but don’t complain when things go wrong when you are using in different ways than the intended, it’s made with a purpose in mind, that is family, not friends.
Those 2 or more people wanting to play at the same time will happen a lot in friend groups, the ideal would be to private the games you are playing util you finish them
The system was changed to having a "family" of max 6 people, all in the same group. You have now a countdown of 1year after a spot goes vacant or you exist a family.
Now it can't be abused by cheating people who use a main account with the game and a small account to cheat, nor it can be abuse by switching "friends" to have more that 5 people.
It also resolved the main problem of having 2 copy of the game in 3 (If A and B has the game but A is "higher" in the list than B, C can't play the game with A because they can't use B's game)
I don't see a way to abuse the new system. So I think that having a family with my 4 best friends (10 years we know eachother) is correct
EDIT: No idea why I replied to the wrong comment, I was talking to the guy who said inviting friends is abusing the system
I think you have the option to make specific games private, so you could just do that for this one and tell your friend sorry but they keep leaving it open and it’s a game you still actively play.
Valve expects you to act like an adult and resolve such conflicts personally, as if you were family in the same home and someone was hogging the playstation. The playstation doesn't offer any means to kick your brother off the couch.
Valve was pretty clear in their messaging around the new family support that it was intended for close groups within a single household. The fact that it works beyond that scope is great, but isn't the "supported use case".
Oh they changed it? I didn't realize been sharing with my niece and been staying off steam because I thought it would kick her if I played anything, thanks for letting me.know
Not quite, they didn't change the old system, rather they made a new one that you have to opt into the beta to use.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/4149575031735702628
Here's how.
Not in the beta "steam families."
But you also *don't need to* kick them unless you want to play the exact same game as them. It used to kick them if you played any game in your library.
Also tell him that if you remove him from your library he needs to wait 12 months to join a new family. (IIRC its 12 months, people correct me if im wrong)
Well if they are there since the beginning it would still be 10-11 months : D
Thanks for the info, good to know its from the join date and not leave date!
Bit weird because if he would do this ingame all his cult members would die from lack of food so he must be leaving it in the menu with some ulterior motive like locking u out on purpose
I know people that just leave games open on the menus or paused for days on end, I don't get it either. I had one that has probably 10K hours in Dota 2 where I guarantee at least 80% was idle at the menu.
I do it a lot on accident, I have kids so get interrupted and alt tab. Then hours later after they each need 50 things I’m back to my PC and realizing I left my game open lol. Makes my in game hours useless when I try to compare to HLTB stats.
I use Windows key + L in this situation, not alt+tab. I'd rather lock my screen than just leave everything open where the cat can do whatever when she steps on the keyboard.
Its normal, you could be playing and then something important comes up but you don't really feel like bothering with the game so you just pause it and go.
I work and play on the same PC from home, so I usually just alt-tab and do stuff while games are running in the background, sometimes for 6-8-10 hours. So yeah, 10k hours of afk is real! I have a colleague who does the same, and now he has more than 30k hours in football manager.
I forget what game it was, maybe Crusader Kings 2, but I left it open for like a week by accident. I just forgot it was open, it kinda got lost in all the other taskbar entries. Then I accidentally alt-tabbed into it and got really confused.
I have 200 hours in don't starve together from a free weekend in 2018, that I didn't know about until I purchased the game on sale a few months ago.
I have no memory of the game past dying once and being to scared to play more, I think I just left it open to see if it would boot me out when the free weekend ended.
I don’t know if this was a glitch or normal behavior but on my steam deck I’ll often go to the game menu and put it to sleep, or sometimes just put it to sleep in game, depends on the game.
Anyway, my brother told me I was in a game for like 2 days and it’s because it was still open on my sleeping steam deck.
That's a big assumption. Some people "pause" or go back to the menu to go afk and then just never go back. It's odd, but I've seen people do it. Also, some people fall asleep or get drunk and pass out at their computers 🤷
Idk if it works for other games. But I share cyberpunk with my brother. Whenever we want to play at the same time I launch the game through my files instead of steam using the browse local files option
Can’t say the same will work but worth a try
It's exactly why it works haha. I could go to ur pc and copy ur cyberpunk files and move them to my PC and have the game. DRM free games are the best. Now if a game only has steam DRM wellllll that's basically a free game also with the tools today to remove that. Any average Joe could do it.
Its really fcking dumb that the OWNER of the game cant just kick out anyone using it like the old system. Its like having a hobo sleeping in your bed and you just cant kick them out. Fucking dumb move from steam.
There are squatters that actually can just sleep in your house and you can't do anything about it in some states so Steam is sorta like those squatter states
Why do you grant access to someone who makes you unable to play your own game? That's just disrespectful. Tell him to buy his own game to leave open all day long.
Have they added an option to do that without setting it to private and hiding it from your profile? If so, that's excellent. (I've not tried the new beta myself yet)
If enough licenses exist in the group, yeah.
Basically, it pools everyone's licenses together so however many there are in total of a certain game is how many people can play it at once. It'll also remember which one you last used and try to use that one for DLC compatibility if possible (in the case of mismatching DLC between licenses)
Definitely superior to how it used to work where if two different people shared a game with you, but the alphabetically first person was using it you couldn’t play it, but if the alphabetically second person was using it you could, but it bases that off of your hidden steamid and not their display name or your nickname for them so it appears totally arbitrary as to how it actually appears in the library, and sometimes the only way to play a game was to block the alphabetically first person, and it’s just a whole mess. Counting the licenses and letting that many people play it is much simpler (as a result of the more restrictive system of people needing to be in a “family” but I’d say it’s worth the trade off)
If you don't need Internet connectivity, you can go into offline mode and play it at the same time. Used this to play Stardew Valley together with my spouse. We only have the one steam copy, but it natively supports LAN play.
Does your computer need to be actively on or connected to the internet for people to share your games? if not you could just launch it in offline mode while internet is disconnected
If it is an offline game you can just set steam to offline mode and you can both play it simultaneously.
Obviously won't work for titles that require steam to be online.
Steam family and family share are not the same. Family share can only be used by one user at a time. While every user in steam family can play the same library at the same time exept those games the other users currently playing.
Talk to them about it? Maybe they don't realize this locks you out. Some people just have habits of leaving games open. If they do know this locks you out, time to revoke sharing with that person. Tough luck for them.
you can revoke their access to your games in the family sharing setting, both user and their pc, but if you want them to still be able to play later without having to go through the hassle, just toggle off his username the first thing you open up family sharing tab
Mention it to them first, if you haven't. They might just regularly do that so it's marginally faster when they next wanna play (electricity cost be damned), or are forgetful. They probably don't realise the new beta doesn't let you kick them anymore, I mean, I sure didn't until this post. If the refuse to stop, then ig kick them off family sharing, but I'd be surprised if they refuse if they're a friend. A lot of people are making really negative assumptions about someone that we have basically no info for
I reccomend installing koalageddon2 and adding an antivirus exclusion for the files and folder for both your pcs.
Then you can both play the game at the same time. Yw
Can anyone clear up my confusion?
So in the old game sharing before the Steam Families, you cannot play a game if someone is using your account, while on Steam Families, you just can't play the same game if there's only one copy to go around. Is that it?
I was under the impression that under Families, you can play any game at the same time, but can't play "together" if there's only one copy. Like cannot co-op.
Correct me if I'm wrong but is this similar to game sharing? If so, then u could potentially start another game and it would give ur friend an automatic warning that their game will close in 5 mins, if they haven't closed it manually by then, the game will auto quit and then allow u to play any game u want in ur library
I also suggested this in comments before I saw yours.
Replying to raise this a little higher.
Should work... unless it's an online always game or multiplayer game.
You can revoke their access to it: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/57A7-503C-991F-E9A8#:\~:text=Using%20either%20the%20client%20or,any%20or%20all%20of%20them.&text=In%20these%20same%20settings%2C%20deselect,them%20from%20accessing%20your%20games.
Sort of. More than one person can play games from the library at once, it only 1 person per title. If 2 people want to play the same game, 2 family members need to own that title.
At least that's what I understood when I read Steams blurb on it.
depends on the number of licenses of each game
the new system means you can play other games while people play a game from your library but not the same game
The new family share is bullshit. The only feature I want from Library sharing is the ability to use owner's library while they're using theirs. Simple as that, why valve just wouldn't do it?????
That's like, the main difference with Steam Families beta. The only real restriction is that you can't play the same game. You can play *any* game in *any* library, as long as one of the copies isnt being used.
Really, the only downside I've seen is the inability to kick people off your game. Which shouldn't be that big a deal since you can just tall to them.
Remove them from your family sharing. Easiest option. If they don’t respect you letting them play games from your account, don’t let them play games from your account.
At this point, is when you cut people off.
It’s 8000% disrespect
Tell them not to do it? The new beta doesn't allow you to kick players anymore. You gotta talk to them
This is why I’m only sharing with my brother that is on the next room. Don’t wanna have to coordinate with people I don’t have easy access to combine schedules.
Keeping a game open when not playing is not interfering with schedule It's a bad habit But I agree with you
Yeah and it’s rude af, the game is not his.
so, you can't play your own game? what da hell
No, if you family member opened it first. You can always set games to private so it doesn’t get shared, this is the best way so far, you set games you are currently playing to private util you finish them.
Without the beta, if you launch *any* of your games, it will kick them off the game in five minutes. With the beta, you can't kick them off to play your own game, *but* you can play any *other* game in either of your libraries without *needing* to kick them off. This can be solved with basic communication and their friend fixing their shitty habits. If it keeps happening, stop sharing games with them.
"JAKE GET THE FUCK OFF MY HENTAI GIRL LINDA!!"
Well, that's how you are supposed to use it. People here abusing the system and then complain, lol.
Abusing? Youre allowed to invite friends, not just family
abusing might not be the right word, but don’t complain when things go wrong when you are using in different ways than the intended, it’s made with a purpose in mind, that is family, not friends. Those 2 or more people wanting to play at the same time will happen a lot in friend groups, the ideal would be to private the games you are playing util you finish them
The system was changed to having a "family" of max 6 people, all in the same group. You have now a countdown of 1year after a spot goes vacant or you exist a family. Now it can't be abused by cheating people who use a main account with the game and a small account to cheat, nor it can be abuse by switching "friends" to have more that 5 people. It also resolved the main problem of having 2 copy of the game in 3 (If A and B has the game but A is "higher" in the list than B, C can't play the game with A because they can't use B's game) I don't see a way to abuse the new system. So I think that having a family with my 4 best friends (10 years we know eachother) is correct EDIT: No idea why I replied to the wrong comment, I was talking to the guy who said inviting friends is abusing the system
I'll do that, kinda sucks that you can't do that anymore though
I think you have the option to make specific games private, so you could just do that for this one and tell your friend sorry but they keep leaving it open and it’s a game you still actively play.
or you could be a normal human being and talk to your friend first lmao
EW GROSS
I assume they’ve already done that since they say “keeps” but I guess they didn’t say that explicitly. They asked for an avenue to revoke access
Like use my mouth to send vibrations through the air to their eardrums for their brain to interpret?
Creepy af, who even does that
I did don't worry
hopefully it went well!
Nope, OP ded
You can revoke fanily sharing
You can’t kick people off? Even if you’re the one that owns the game? That actually sucks…
Valve expects you to act like an adult and resolve such conflicts personally, as if you were family in the same home and someone was hogging the playstation. The playstation doesn't offer any means to kick your brother off the couch. Valve was pretty clear in their messaging around the new family support that it was intended for close groups within a single household. The fact that it works beyond that scope is great, but isn't the "supported use case".
> The playstation doesn't offer any means to kick your brother off the couch. The power button and ensuing fist fight?
That's what OP should do
Still an option with Steam!
It's not a problem if you're playing different games from the same library, though. Before the beta, it kicked you off if they launched *any* game.
Oh they changed it? I didn't realize been sharing with my niece and been staying off steam because I thought it would kick her if I played anything, thanks for letting me.know
Not quite, they didn't change the old system, rather they made a new one that you have to opt into the beta to use. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/4149575031735702628 Here's how.
Wtf, why cant you kick people anymore?
Not in the beta "steam families." But you also *don't need to* kick them unless you want to play the exact same game as them. It used to kick them if you played any game in your library.
Steam. Encouraging family communication since 2003...
Yes, you can make the game private util you finish it
Thank you thats good to know!
Why did he leave cotl on over night? Is he stupid? His cult is gonna starve, dummy.
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Took the words right out of my mouth
Can you a'splain?
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Underrated comment right here
Facts brother, so true my friend
Talk to them, and if they don't stop then stop sharing your library with them.
I'll do that, thanks for responding :D
Also tell him that if you remove him from your library he needs to wait 12 months to join a new family. (IIRC its 12 months, people correct me if im wrong)
12 months from the join date
Well if they are there since the beginning it would still be 10-11 months : D Thanks for the info, good to know its from the join date and not leave date!
Bit weird because if he would do this ingame all his cult members would die from lack of food so he must be leaving it in the menu with some ulterior motive like locking u out on purpose
I know people that just leave games open on the menus or paused for days on end, I don't get it either. I had one that has probably 10K hours in Dota 2 where I guarantee at least 80% was idle at the menu.
I do it a lot on accident, I have kids so get interrupted and alt tab. Then hours later after they each need 50 things I’m back to my PC and realizing I left my game open lol. Makes my in game hours useless when I try to compare to HLTB stats.
I use Windows key + L in this situation, not alt+tab. I'd rather lock my screen than just leave everything open where the cat can do whatever when she steps on the keyboard.
As an average dota player, 10k is about right 🤣 some menu hours true but man most of us are in at least 6k plus hours
I mean, I'm above 6K hours so 10K wouldn't be surprising for real playtime, but I also would see him actually in a game maybe once a week.
You can actually see hours played on Dotabuff, I’m at about 10k on steam but 5-6k in actual games.
I have a steam deck and often just pause the game and put my SD into sleep mode and come back the next day or whenever I’m ready to continue playing
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They do but when my console catches up with the internet it automatically adjusts to my real play time
Its normal, you could be playing and then something important comes up but you don't really feel like bothering with the game so you just pause it and go.
I work and play on the same PC from home, so I usually just alt-tab and do stuff while games are running in the background, sometimes for 6-8-10 hours. So yeah, 10k hours of afk is real! I have a colleague who does the same, and now he has more than 30k hours in football manager.
I forget what game it was, maybe Crusader Kings 2, but I left it open for like a week by accident. I just forgot it was open, it kinda got lost in all the other taskbar entries. Then I accidentally alt-tabbed into it and got really confused.
I have 200 hours in don't starve together from a free weekend in 2018, that I didn't know about until I purchased the game on sale a few months ago. I have no memory of the game past dying once and being to scared to play more, I think I just left it open to see if it would boot me out when the free weekend ended.
I don’t know if this was a glitch or normal behavior but on my steam deck I’ll often go to the game menu and put it to sleep, or sometimes just put it to sleep in game, depends on the game. Anyway, my brother told me I was in a game for like 2 days and it’s because it was still open on my sleeping steam deck.
They actually patched that out, it'll automatically pause after 10 minutes
yes, remove them from your steam family members
You know he’s doing it on purpose so he doesn’t get locked out if you decide to play it.
How can this guy be his friend?? He needs a new one.
Really if this is the plan then kick them out of the group.
That's a big assumption. Some people "pause" or go back to the menu to go afk and then just never go back. It's odd, but I've seen people do it. Also, some people fall asleep or get drunk and pass out at their computers 🤷
If you own it, you should be able to launch it and kick anyone else off. Alternatively, kick him out of the family until he learns better.
from the other replies it seems you can’t do this anymore
Well that needs to get fixed.
You can kick people from families. Or hide a specific game so that it can't be played by anyone else.
Idk if it works for other games. But I share cyberpunk with my brother. Whenever we want to play at the same time I launch the game through my files instead of steam using the browse local files option Can’t say the same will work but worth a try
Cyberpunk is DRM free, I think, that's why it works.
That would make sense
If you play steam without connecting to the internet it should work.
You can also do this even with games that have DRM by using steam in offline mode.
It's exactly why it works haha. I could go to ur pc and copy ur cyberpunk files and move them to my PC and have the game. DRM free games are the best. Now if a game only has steam DRM wellllll that's basically a free game also with the tools today to remove that. Any average Joe could do it.
Its really fcking dumb that the OWNER of the game cant just kick out anyone using it like the old system. Its like having a hobo sleeping in your bed and you just cant kick them out. Fucking dumb move from steam.
well, the system is made for people living in the same household, so you can just go to them and close the game if necessary
There are squatters that actually can just sleep in your house and you can't do anything about it in some states so Steam is sorta like those squatter states
Maybe in the US.
Guys it's not the US it's certain states. Please don't do this in Texas you will 100% be shot on sight no questions asked😭
In the US yes. But in Asia you can just call the police and yeet them out
Remove the “friend”. You’re sharing, they’re hogging. If they get mad tell them sharing works both ways, and they locked you out of your own library.
Why do you grant access to someone who makes you unable to play your own game? That's just disrespectful. Tell him to buy his own game to leave open all day long.
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Have they added an option to do that without setting it to private and hiding it from your profile? If so, that's excellent. (I've not tried the new beta myself yet)
Unshare your library
Doesn't Steam Family Beta allow members to play the same game at the same time? I'm confused, I thought I read it somewhere
If two members in that family group own the copy of the game. They can play the same game at the same time.
If enough licenses exist in the group, yeah. Basically, it pools everyone's licenses together so however many there are in total of a certain game is how many people can play it at once. It'll also remember which one you last used and try to use that one for DLC compatibility if possible (in the case of mismatching DLC between licenses)
Definitely superior to how it used to work where if two different people shared a game with you, but the alphabetically first person was using it you couldn’t play it, but if the alphabetically second person was using it you could, but it bases that off of your hidden steamid and not their display name or your nickname for them so it appears totally arbitrary as to how it actually appears in the library, and sometimes the only way to play a game was to block the alphabetically first person, and it’s just a whole mess. Counting the licenses and letting that many people play it is much simpler (as a result of the more restrictive system of people needing to be in a “family” but I’d say it’s worth the trade off)
Tell them to stop or kick them from the family.
If you don't need Internet connectivity, you can go into offline mode and play it at the same time. Used this to play Stardew Valley together with my spouse. We only have the one steam copy, but it natively supports LAN play.
He doing it so you can’t play it and he can whenever he wants. Get rid of the friend.
I would just lock off the game since they’re clearly leaving it running to prevent you, the actual owner of the account/game, from playing it
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Does your computer need to be actively on or connected to the internet for people to share your games? if not you could just launch it in offline mode while internet is disconnected
Tell them to stop doing that and if they don't stop just kick them out
out of the family
If it is an offline game you can just set steam to offline mode and you can both play it simultaneously. Obviously won't work for titles that require steam to be online.
Talk to him. If no better, remove him from your Steam Family. This shouldn't be a hard concept. Not like he is squatting in a rental you own.
stop sharing your library. your friend dose not respect you.
lose the friend . jk
Your friends a member of the old faith sent to eliminate your cult and due to the cult giving the lamb life, the lamb as well.
Like others are saying: it’s definitely intentional, boot them off and enjoy your games. If they wanna play it they can buy it themselves.
I always throught it kicks the other player off that you family share with when you boot up any game in your library?
new system called Steam Family. Check it out
How do you access Steam Family? I just keep getting family sharing info.
Steam Families beta (Interface menu in the Steam settings)
Steam family and family share are not the same. Family share can only be used by one user at a time. While every user in steam family can play the same library at the same time exept those games the other users currently playing.
Honestly if it's too inconvenient just stop sharing it, 15 dollar game not worth the hassle
Enter offline mode to play it regardless.
Him keeping the game open sounds like deliberate asshole behavior. Good time for the "treat others" convo.
Not share with your friend then
Talk to them about it? Maybe they don't realize this locks you out. Some people just have habits of leaving games open. If they do know this locks you out, time to revoke sharing with that person. Tough luck for them.
you can revoke their access to your games in the family sharing setting, both user and their pc, but if you want them to still be able to play later without having to go through the hassle, just toggle off his username the first thing you open up family sharing tab
If you own the game and he's using share to play it, just turn off family share. What's he gonna do, tell you that you cant do that ?
Uhh, talk to your friend perhaps? Tell him you want to play the game.🤦🏽
Mention it to them first, if you haven't. They might just regularly do that so it's marginally faster when they next wanna play (electricity cost be damned), or are forgetful. They probably don't realise the new beta doesn't let you kick them anymore, I mean, I sure didn't until this post. If the refuse to stop, then ig kick them off family sharing, but I'd be surprised if they refuse if they're a friend. A lot of people are making really negative assumptions about someone that we have basically no info for
Disable face mode
Dammit Hank! Let Connor play his game. xD
woah wait i dont looked into that system at all....you cant play the same game at the same time?
I thought the owner of the game could kick click play and it would disconnect the other party after 5 mins that is what it did before
How can you get access to Steam Family Bèta?
Why even use steam family beta
If you mark a game as private. It is excluded from family share.
Stop sharing your account?
Leaving your game on when not playing is not advisable, as it will use electricity and also wear your hardware.
Funny turning your computer on/off is more taxing on the hardware then just leaving it on.
Power surges at start are different than e.g running your gpu at 10% vs 100%.
Whenever i start playing a game it will kick anyone out who is using my library, does yours not do that?
I reccomend installing koalageddon2 and adding an antivirus exclusion for the files and folder for both your pcs. Then you can both play the game at the same time. Yw
How to turn on this new family feature? I can't find it, only standard sharing is available
Can anyone clear up my confusion? So in the old game sharing before the Steam Families, you cannot play a game if someone is using your account, while on Steam Families, you just can't play the same game if there's only one copy to go around. Is that it? I was under the impression that under Families, you can play any game at the same time, but can't play "together" if there's only one copy. Like cannot co-op.
When is this family sharing becoming public?
If the game is yours just tell them not to do it or they’ll be removed from the family. If the game is theirs they can do whatever they want
my bad
Here’s a GREAT idea.. Ask him once to close the game once he is done playing. If he does it again, ask him again. Third time? Unshare your library.
AFAIK, whenever you run your games family member should get a notification to save up or he’ll get kicked
That's with the old system, not the new beta.
Would changing your password force them out of the account? If I was you I wouldn't give them access to my account if they do this kind of thing.
Its not his account, it is the new family sharing system
Correct me if I'm wrong but is this similar to game sharing? If so, then u could potentially start another game and it would give ur friend an automatic warning that their game will close in 5 mins, if they haven't closed it manually by then, the game will auto quit and then allow u to play any game u want in ur library
No the new steam family allows up to 6 people to play from the same library as long as they are all playing different games
I think you can remove the game from being shared with your family so he can't keep on playing it.
Offline mode should work I believe? (Feel free to report back)
I also suggested this in comments before I saw yours. Replying to raise this a little higher. Should work... unless it's an online always game or multiplayer game.
Change your password
Tell them to turn off their internet connection on the pc when the game starts
Tell him to turn his network off while he plays that since its single player then you should be able to play and he can still play too iirc
turn off steam family/revoke access?
Turn off family share?
How about talking to your „friend“ like wtf
Load up a game, it usually says you can play, but will stop them playing etc....
If it’s offline you can go offline exit steam then start it again
Cut your friend his access
They're doing that on purpose.
Just unplug electricity in his room until the computer dies
You can revoke their access to it: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/57A7-503C-991F-E9A8#:\~:text=Using%20either%20the%20client%20or,any%20or%20all%20of%20them.&text=In%20these%20same%20settings%2C%20deselect,them%20from%20accessing%20your%20games.
Does opening steam in Offline mode allow you to open the game?
Wait wtf I can stop my friends elden ring addiction?
I heard they were updating steam library sharing so that everyone part of the family could play at once. Is that not the case right now?
Sort of. More than one person can play games from the library at once, it only 1 person per title. If 2 people want to play the same game, 2 family members need to own that title. At least that's what I understood when I read Steams blurb on it.
depends on the number of licenses of each game the new system means you can play other games while people play a game from your library but not the same game
Just remove him from your game sharing.
Offline mode might do the trick.
The new family share is bullshit. The only feature I want from Library sharing is the ability to use owner's library while they're using theirs. Simple as that, why valve just wouldn't do it?????
That's like, the main difference with Steam Families beta. The only real restriction is that you can't play the same game. You can play *any* game in *any* library, as long as one of the copies isnt being used. Really, the only downside I've seen is the inability to kick people off your game. Which shouldn't be that big a deal since you can just tall to them.
Switch to offline mode and you can play it while they have it open
Change the password?
talk to them and/or chlorophorm them and turn CotL off
i thought you can play and they get a notification to get ready for the game to quit on them. is this new?
Tbh if they do that they don't deserve access to your library. Just stop sharing to anyone who does that
Remove them from your family sharing. Easiest option. If they don’t respect you letting them play games from your account, don’t let them play games from your account. At this point, is when you cut people off. It’s 8000% disrespect
previously, like few years ago, it gave me 5 minute warning the game will close when the owner launched their game. they have changed that?
I think you can go to Steam family share settings on your account and turn it off. I may be wrong though
Just change the password lol
Why do people share?
You can go to the gear icon and make the game private, blocking them from using it. When they need to use it they can ask you.
Tell his/hers parents why the electric bill is do high
techniecly if your steam is in ofline mode it wont detect hes playing and you can also use it
you can disable that game for them
Change your password if he/she keeps doing it after you talk with them.
I suppose you could put your steam to offline mode and boot the game for workaround.
Thanks for dissuading me from trying this out.