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Eirikra

I bought this E3 Humble Bundle and I would love to have Majora's mask, but I already own Payday 2 and this mask comes in the same code than the game (Payday 2 + 2 masks, incluying the Majora's) but I would really like to avoid just throwing away the base game... So, I was wondering if this would work: I have my account shared with my brother's and he doesn't own Payday 2, if I give the code to him so that he can activate it on his account and then share his (account) with mine, will I be able to use his Payday 2 DLCs AND mine at the same time? I'm assuming that if this works it would be while he's not using any game, right?
I found this and according to that (a post from 2013) you can -doing a process first- but I would like to see if anyone has anything else to say?

Also, did I understood correctly?

  1. Create an empty account
  2. Share both accounts (with base game and different DLCs) with this new empty account and update them.
  3. Go into normal account, run the game, verify that the DLCs work and then create a backup.
    It sounds a bit illogical to me, but I might have understood wrong.

tl;dr: Is it possible to share DLCs between two accounts that both have a base game with different DLCs?

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Aneszej

^this.

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HerBrokenHeart

I skipped those masks. I'm not jumping from the buck tier to the BTA+ tier just for two masks. I guess not separating the keys was part of not undermining the summer sale or something, I dunno. Either way, nothx Humblekill.

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Eirikra

Yeah, I thought they would add more games, at least one... if I had known they wouldn't add anything I wouldn't have bought it, I guess it was just the hype of the moment for the E3 u.u

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HerBrokenHeart

E3 bundle is always just a few days. I dunno about the books/comics/non-game bundles because I don't get those, but with game bundles, only the two-week long main bundle gets more after a week. With weekly and the occasional special like E3 or Insomnia Fortnight, it's pretty much really unlikely to change.

That is to say, never jump up a tier because something might be added. You always get that tier because it's already compelling (or, if you know something will be added, that the addition of pretty much anything is good enough).

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Eirikra

This is my first summer with money to spend... went full noob with that haha

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HerBrokenHeart

Everyone spanks their wallet at least once.

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IgotElbows

I think maybe if you don't own a game, and download a game and all it's DLC, and then buy the base game just for yourself, you might be able to access the DLC since it's on the computer already.

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Tumalu

Adding onto this. You can create a new account and family share it with the account with the DLC.
You then log onto the new account and download the game with the DLC.
Switch back to your main account, and you can now play the game with the DLC.

Edit: Which is basically what you said in your post.

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Eirikra

Yeah, well I'm gonna try it then, hope it works.

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Eirikra

Yes, but you can't access a game even if it's on your computer if you don't use family share with the account that owns the game.

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madjoki

That method works if game uses files to unlock DLC content (eg. Skyrim) instead of ownership check.

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Eirikra

O: and do they care or do something to know if it's being used with piracy?
I wouldn't do that, mainly because I don't want to compromise my account, just curious.
Do you know if Payday 2 works like that or if there's a list of games that do that?

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