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I buy all my games on Epic Games Launcher becomes it has less DRM than steam. If you have kids, they can’t play 2 completely different games on two different computers.

It’s like your kid not being able to play Mario kart on her switch because her brother is playing Halo on Xbox in another room. Steam doesn’t support that. Epic games doesn’t have a problem with you having 2 different games being played on 2 different computers, so I buy my games there whenever I have the choice because it’s the more consumer-friendly platform.

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If you have kids, they can’t play 2 completely different games on two different computers.

Steam does support that tho. That’s what Family Sharing is. And it works really well.

Now, if you wanted to play the same game at the same time, that’s on a single Steam account, that you can’t do. But I’m pretty sure you can’t do that on EGS, either. Not without 2 accounts and 2 copies of the game.

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No, it explicitly does not work that way. If you share a game to another family member, and that family member plays that game, you are not allowed to play any other game at all on steam.

“A Steam library can only be used by one user at a time to play one game at a time. The same is true if that library is being accessed by another user via Family Sharing.”

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/57A7-503C-991F-E9A8#:~:text=A Steam library can only,another user via Family Sharing.&text=Rate limit exceeded-,A Steam account may authorize Family Library Sharing on up,in a 90 day period.

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Two DIFFERENT games will work. Playing the SAME game SIMULTANEOUSLY will not work.

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I know the wording there is fucked up, but have you used it? Because you can play two separate games at the same time with it, but you can’t play the same exact game as each other. I use it all the time to play stuff my sister has that I don’t, while she plays something else.

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Not to justify it, but you can work around this with offline mode.

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Family mode too

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Family shared libraries can also ever only be used by one person. Or what do you mean with family mode?

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