You don’t have to share credentials!!! They can just send you a picture with the steam qr and you scan it with your phone. They can log in without the need for those credentials
I wish they would make it so like for someone to be eligible to join your family you have to have a certain amount of time played with them or they have to be in your top 5 most played with friends or something. I don’t have any family members that use steam and even if I did, I’m in college so we don’t live in the same house so this Family sharing feature was basically a giant tease for me
So basically my wife (who only plays single player games) would be ineligible to join my steam family since she only plays single player games. But some random guy I befriended on the internet halfway across the world would be eligible.
alright guys, ive figured it out, after a few hours of researching this bs. takes about ~7-15 minutes. 1) you'll have to do the 3rd point listed in this video first, having your friend/ family member log into your account, then log out 2) have them go through email to accept the invite in the browser, im not sure if they can just accept it in the app versions 3) if that worked, have the person turn on the steam family beta in the app 4) boom, it should be done edit: If you get the red message saying something along the lines of "this user cant join to account activity in a different area", its best to wait a few days, up to a week, and try again.
BRO THANK U SOOOOOO MUCH. VALVE WONT LET ME ACCESS DEADLOCK SO I HAD TO BUY A HONG KONG ACCOUNT THAT WAS INVITED AND THIS WORKED. Tip ur gonna have to pay money to change location if u do what i did but after that log out on ur computer log into the account u wanna share on another computer/laptop then allow family sharing. Log out log into the account you want the game on see you have the invite log out again then go to a browser and accept the invite. Ur gonna have to log into steam website then itll say okay now go to your phone aka steam guard to fully accept it there then it should work.🙏🏾
Thanks, Its worked, My location is Indonesia, and my friend is in Ireland (but His steam is Indonesia region), basically, both accounts must login on 1 PC and using steam android app login QR code credentials
I've tried somwthing that work with me in the app version (smartphone). Both accounts must be in the same country on the settings, naturally. 1- Log out with all accounts. 2- Log in with the account with the games to share, send an invitation to the account you want to share games with, and log out. 3- Log in with the account that you want to share the games with and accept the invitation. Keep in mind, in my case, both accounts were mine, so I used one smartphone for the whole process, so I imagine that sharing games with a different account will still require the same device. I hope this helps. Now I'm off to eat pinapple.
Nice explanation man it’s not like people aren’t buying the games on steam or you can share with the entire world 😭 Dey wilding wit dis lmao wha if my cousin live across the Atlantic Ocean fr lmao
Bro, cannot my actually family (cousin) that lives next block but a friend living at the other side of the world can?? steam???? bs man, having to share my account data cause they cannot do their shit right is infuriating
They change the rules frequently during this beta. Let me guess - the friend on the other side of the world is a pretty old share, while your cousin that lives close is a recent attempt to add? My ENTIRE share list are people from out of state - I got it BEFORE the crack down. If I removed one of them and tried to readd them? I'm 100% sure I'd be denied. :(
hey i have a question, i feel like it’s possible steam could ban me for sharing with someone outside of my physical home. would this be like a VAC ban where i can’t play games online, or would they confiscate my entire game library!?
So far, no. It appears that 1) they just deny the addition or 2) they remove the "offending" person. I keep my ears open on this, and no one has reported ANY sort of ban or hard action like this.
idk why its completely broken for me. I just made a new account for my wife for the PC we bought her and wanted to add her to the family, we literally live in the same apartment and are connected to the same router via ethernet. Really hope it'll settle in a few days, maybe the account is too fresh
@@Darkuni can't even login into my accounts on the same computer, only thing that they don't got in common is different country stores, so i guess valves is doing that one on purpose 😅
Why TF is it named steam families if i can't have my actual close fam share games? Me, my brother and two cousins have been borrowing games on each other's accounts. Why should it work just like so? Because we also do this for f***ing consoles! We share f***ing discs! F*** valve
Do you think one of these work-arounds will be necessary if two PCs are on the same home network, but one uses a VPN and the other does not? Or each uses a different VPN?
I believe it would be necessary, yes. IP != VPN IP ... so yeah, it would think one person in the house is at the home IP and the other person is in Abu Dhabi or wherever the VPN is routing you to.
@@isovrhell al parecer es para miembros cercanos de la familia, por lo que es solo para personas que vivan en tu misma casa, ,seguro lo hacen rastreando la ip o similar
Worst part about this is they minimize that fineline, knowing damn well that people share mostly with people outside of their household. Huge step forward, but a huge step backward. can't tell if it's a W or an L.
Hi, i tried all the methods and none of them is working. I am currently on my PC, logged with my account on the app, and with my friend account on the Google Chrome. I still get the red error messages :(. I contact Steam and they don't want to support as this is an algorithm which make the verification... i told them we are in the same house but they don't care...
You can try the log out switcheroo ... Both of you sign out of steam. Have him log in as YOU on HIS computer. That may establish a presence that "you are there". Once he logs in as you, have him launch a game, etc. Show activity. Then have him log out as you - log back in as him. Then try the setup again.
@@xb360t Would be easier to log out of your PC, go to log in, take a pic of the QR code and send it to him and let him log into his PC as "you". Let it settle a bit - maybe install a small game... then log out ... you log back in ... then try to add him.
Yessir. Someone found an interesting "hack" that suddenly stopped working. One user was on STABLE (OG family share) and the other was on BETA (new families share) and somehow they could play the same game at the same time :)
Here is the thing ... Valve doesn't publish any sort of criteria for determining the relationship. Since they won't tell us what they are looking for, we can't circumvent it accurately (likely by design). I expect, at some point, if you're not behind the same external IP? Eventually you will be prohibited from joining a "family". It wouldn't surprise me to find out that Valve is using a Steam to Steam peer check on the LAN to validate what they are looking for.
They are constantly shifting the requirements. If you're not actually behind the same router, I think you're going to have issues. :( People are reporting these tricks aren't working anymore.
Someone claims they have gotten it to work, but I'm not touching my family as it is setup exactly how I want - and if I'm grandfathered into something older? I'm keeping it!
se puede bloquear un juego que yo compré para que un amigo o familiar no lo juegue? o que se haga invisible para el o ellos. o puedo jugar MI juego comprado mientras un amigo lo juega y yo lo saco y puedo jugar yo?
You can if the other person is a minor. There are "parental controls" that allow that. But just "user vs user", I don't THINK so. It is changing all the time though.
