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- Undearius ( @Undearius@lemmy.ca ) English65•8 days ago
Family Sharing enables you to play games from other family members’ libraries, even if they are online playing another game.
This is a great improvement to this feature. It’s refreshing when these type of convenience features are considered and implemented.
- Gregor ( @gregor@gregtech.eu ) 8•7 days ago
Ubisoft and EA already opted out lmao
- MrGerrit ( @MrGerrit@feddit.nl ) 28•8 days ago
Very handy. Been using it with my daughter and loves the amount of games she can choose from.
- inlandempire ( @inlandempire@jlai.lu ) 18•8 days ago
Finally! Now I can switch back to the “normal” Steam Beta build for other experimental features, Steam Family was on a separate beta build which didn’t allow me to try other things…
- Toribor ( @Toribor@corndog.social ) English3•8 days ago
The family beta had weird issues on Linux (Gnome/Wayland) until recently too so I’m glad to see this getting a full release.
- Cethin ( @Cethin@lemmy.zip ) English2•7 days ago
I’ve been on it for a while (on Garuda, no Gnome) and it’s been stable. I don’t recall any issues. Maybe I just got lucky.
- Toribor ( @Toribor@corndog.social ) English1•7 days ago
It’s fixed now. But flatpak steam on gnome/Wayland would display a black screen on the store when opted into the family beta for a while. Stable was unaffected.
- Cethin ( @Cethin@lemmy.zip ) English2•7 days ago
Ah, flatpak. That might be the difference.
- _spiffy ( @_spiffy@lemmy.ca ) English17•8 days ago
This is a great feature! I can finally have both my kids play whatever game they want at the same time.
- jet ( @jet@hackertalks.com ) English14•8 days ago
You can only add family members in the same steam store region.
- verdigris ( @verdigris@lemmy.ml ) 4•7 days ago
Yeah this has been a sticking point since the beta, they never responded to the thousands of comments complaining about it. It’s pretty bullshit and makes this feature useless in many circumstances.
- lemmyvore ( @lemmyvore@feddit.nl ) English1•5 days ago
Unfortunately over here it seems to be doing IP-based location as I’m not able to add my brother who lives in a different part of the same town.
- jet ( @jet@hackertalks.com ) English1•5 days ago
just have him login to your computer, then log him out, then add him as a family member, steam will see both use the same ip/computer, and bam, your good
- ReCursing ( @ReCursing@lemmings.world ) 8•7 days ago
So how do I create a Steam Family? I can’t see an option to do so anywhere but I am most likely just missing it… or it hasn’t been rolled out to the UK yet
edit: found it! For anyone else who is lost like me, go to the top right and click on your use name and then Account Details. From there, Family Management is on the left and it’s obvious
- DJDarren ( @DJDarren@thelemmy.club ) English3•7 days ago
Between my wife’s enormous Steam library and Whisky/Crossover on my M2 MacBook, I’ve been playing more games than ever since the beta of this popped up. It’s actually quite impressive how many games just work - albeit with some compromises in places.
- wise_pancake ( @wise_pancake@lemmy.ca ) 1•6 days ago
Can you share more about how you got steam to work that way? Right now I play some games through a VM with horrible performance.
- DJDarren ( @DJDarren@thelemmy.club ) English1•6 days ago
If you’re using an M-series Mac, download the Windows Steam installer and Whisky. Install Steam through Whisky then simply install games through Steam as normal.
There’s a bit of a learning curve, but /r/MacGaming on Reddit is a useful resource.
There are some that simply won’t work because the hardware won’t run them (Red Dead 2 is the most disappointing one for me), but have a play and see what works.
- shirro ( @shirro@aussie.zone ) English3•7 days ago
This is a lot easier to manage than the old library sharing where I was always going between machines, changing accounts and sharing libraries with people with multiple desktop logins on multiple machines. Changed the family over today. I am concerned this new system will get abused by groups of independent adults like Netflix was and publishers will withdraw games or prices will increase. Just pirate please and don’t ruin a good thing because for parents with dependent kids at home the cost of living is rough.
Being able to remotely manage parental controls from my login for younger kids is also awesome. It feels like it was made by an actual parent instead of a single 20 something tech bro like some other parental control systems. It is fucking abysmal that so many streaming apps make it hard to find age appropriate content or set sensible access controls. Like seriously Crunchyroll - you are owned by a fucking filthy rich media megacorp Sony and you cant provide search by age, content ratings or helpful labeling.
- wise_pancake ( @wise_pancake@lemmy.ca ) 3•6 days ago
I know that this is supposed to be a family, but it’s a surprised dog face to me.
- krolden ( @krolden@lemmy.ml ) 2•8 days ago
I wish they made all games require sharing
- datavoid ( @datavoid@lemmy.ml ) English2•7 days ago
Soon they will need a Family Crypt to archive the games of dead generations
- BmeBenji ( @BmeBenji@lemm.ee ) 2•7 days ago
*are
- /home/pineapplelover ( @pineapplelover@lemm.ee ) 1•6 days ago
Been using this in Beta for a few months now. Very cool
- downhomechunk [chicago] ( @downhomechunk@midwest.social ) English2•6 days ago
Samesies