Indeed, though it's a pity that there is no other, more visible warning of it (yet) - got to the selection of payment method, and there were no other mentions of me having access to game in any other shape or form
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Yeah, that would be really nice if we see the warning on games' store pages, like "X friends already own this game".
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It shows on mobile as well, so got to be vanilla Steam feature.
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Deleted my comment because i was stupid ^^ (How would Augmented Steam know who is part of a family group?)
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I was wondering about it as well, I guess that's supposed to be a pretty private data but I'm not really in the know.
On the good side though, if Steam itself marks the games, a script can be used to make the message more visible. (I don't think AS will do it themselves, but who knows ^^ )
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They've recently restricted it so that family sharing will be strictly shared with people living in the same household, so if you have a friend or family member that doesn't live with you, the feature won't be very useful to you. I've heard there's a workaround for it, but I'm not on the beta so I haven't tested the new steam family feature yet.
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They did this to prevent people using secondary accounts from the countries where the games are cheaper but it was already limited to 5 accounts. Didn't know it also has to be the same household.
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They did this to prevent people using secondary accounts from the countries where the games are cheaper
If that was the point, they would have simply restricted to the usual regions but they also restricted countries. I'm in France, my gf sometimes is in Portugal. The limitation doesn't make much sense inside the euro zone where games are priced exactly the same.
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I mean I assume it is to counter regional price abusers but the same household thing makes it somewhat more sense. Now I wonder if people from different countries but temporarily live in the same place can form a Steam family, probably currently not though.
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The Steam announcement speaks about same household. Though, so far the beta allows same country. I'm sure Steam intends the feature to be for same household but not sure if they will enforce it more strictly than the current "same country" restriction in the beta. They are going after the abusers of the previous family share system while probably looking to reduce the colleterals. Just speculating.
It is something I'm waiting for as my my brother and sister live 400 km southwest than me but still same country.
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Originally it allowed you to invite people that were in the same country, but in the last couple of days it was restricted to same household. I saw a post saying that you can bypass it by logging into the person's account and accepting the invite on your PC but I have no idea if that really works or not.
Anyway, it was a super recent change, a lot of people have been posting about it on Reddit and the steam forums
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Haven't been aware of the recent change. That is a rather strict limit but I understand it from a buisness perspective. Will be interesting to see on how it will be at the end of the beta.
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They can enforce it but many internet users' IPs are in rotation from their providers. There are also VPN users. That might complicate things. Though if they announced it as same household, it's most likely their intention and they will probably enforce it some time.
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Oh it's the same household too now? At least it makes sense.
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restricting it to same household makes it worse than the current.
only time will tell how well that restriction works... it doesn't work well for Amazon(its called amazon household afterall) or Costco(policy is same household) at least, my brother and I share those memberships despite living in different homes.
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That is cool. I've always liked the store decluttering features
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Cool, that's a good way to reduce part of my wishlist (they should add an icon there as well if you check yours).
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Just wanted to share this. Although you cannot currently use Steam Family if you and your family member are in different countries, there are still some really nice features like this one.
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