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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 58 points 2 days ago (21 children)

Meanwhile on Steam my "family" consists of 3 adults with different addresses, last names, and credit cards, who have had accounts for decades and never lived at the same place.

We have full access to each other's library.

[–] sfjvvssss@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (8 children)

How do you add new people? I tried and a prompt told me that we don't seem to share a household.

[–] Rbnsft@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Login on their PC or let them login on yours

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's the old way of handling it. (And I think it still works.) They have a new implementation that's just the family group admin sending an invite and the recipient accepting.

[–] Rbnsft@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Which only works If you were in the same Network atleast for me

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

After I made my comment I saw someone else make a comment about getting a message saying that. I never did. Mine just worked. Weird.

[–] sfjvvssss@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If one changes their password afterwards, will the share persist? Old Steam family sharing broke after changing the passwords.

[–] Rbnsft@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Should still work. Not 100% sure tbh

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