I've noticed that a LOT of games have "Notice: This game is excluded from Steam's Family Sharing service." on their store pages these days. Almost 1/2 of all the games I'm seeing in my queue is marked as such these days.

I'm guessing a lot of developers are opting out of that specifically due to the newish Family sharing system that was implemented (I'm referring to the system where you can create a family of 5 people, and everyone's libraries basically get pooled together and anyone can play any game, as long as there's enough available copies to be played at the same time).

UPDATE: I just went through my queue again and all of them were marked "Notice: This game is excluded from Steam's Family Sharing service."

UPDATE 2: I noticed that if I look at Hogwarts Legacy (as an example) it shows "Notice: This game is excluded from Steam's Family Sharing service." in my browser, but doesn't show it in Steam itself. It actually has Family Sharing on as a feature. So maybe the Augmented Steam or SteamDB extension is just being weird with this. (Either on my side, or globally, if other people are experiencing this and they have these extensions installed).

4 months ago*

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Have you noticed that more and more games are opting out of the Family Sharing service these days?

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As a sort of dev I can tell you it has nothing to do with us, Steam changed things and that popped up for everyone. You can even find an exact day when all the games got the update pushed if you look through the steamdb a bit.

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Ah, so instead of making it a "toggle to turn this off" it turned into a "toggle to turn this on"
And everyone's games got flagged as non-family sharing, and they can now toggle if they want that functionality on then?

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Just posted an update above. I think this might just be the SteamDB extension being weird.

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its a bug with the augmented steam extension, they accidentally have it reversed and are aware of it.
if you see that flag it has it, if you don't it doesn't.

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Ah, cool cool, thank you for letting us know :)

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Closed 4 months ago by CBlade.