I'd be very careful with using tools like that. I can't imagine Valve will simply let this slip if they detect it.
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2025
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Tools like this have existed for maaany years already. Just look at GreenLuma, which has quite the userbase. Nothing's happened to me yet and I've been doing this for 10+ years.
But you're right, as always use at your own risk since Valve can at any point and time disable your account/revoke your licenses etc
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Anyone know about family sharing "tools" as opposed to "games"? I bought RPG Makers but can't share them because they're classified as tools and not games.
Added brief instructions and a download that doesn't require registering to the post. I hope everyone is happy now
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Yeah, sorry CS RIN is semi public. But having an account there is definitely very useful, considering their forums are full of Steam games and useful tools for different stores.
Was the best forum to post into, because it fits perfectly on topic.
You should also upload it somewhere else so people can have access to it without registering to a shady forum they might not necessarily know or trust.
Alright, fine. My activity here is a lot less than on CS RIN though, so support & updates might take longer
What's the Steam Family Sharing Lock?
For example if your family sharing library has 1 license for a Game only one of it's members will be able to play it simultaneously. This modification disables that lock for everyone using it
Does it put you in offline mode or is there some other kind of magic?
The lock is client sided, that's the magic. You can play online just fine, I use it all the time to play multiplayer with my friends :)
Fantastic! Thanks for this.
No problem Mr. Ace! :)
They will ban your account and you will be crying because they took away all your games. Dont abuse the system is pretty generous already.
They will ban your account and you will be crying because they took away all your games.
Projecting much? I've been using mods like this for a good decade. Also Valve has way bigger fish to fry with their shitty abusable shop system, all the people selling Steam market items on other websites and so on. The list is long
~~>Dont abuse the system is pretty generous already.~~
~~You know what community this is in, right? It's all about bypassing and abusing the system to get shit for free~~
Edit: Corrected some false statements on my part.
Huh? Thats not true. Dbzero the creator of this community is pirate by principle to fuck the bad companies , not to abuse and get shit for free from companies that treat their customers okay.
Well then sorry for spewing false nonsense. I know Lemmy will flame me for this but Valve is still a soulless corporation fucking everyone over. Just not as much as most others
far be it from me to defend any corporation, but doesnt this send wrong kind of a message to them? They didnt need to make family sharing, let alone remind you if you can already play a game through it when purchasing one. This isnt typical behaviour and should be allowed a little slack for it, to show other corporations that not being asshole is more profitable.
If valve goes bad then nothing is too horrible, but until that, its kind of bad form to stab a hand that offers a little kindness, even if their ultimate goal is to just make money by staying on top by having good will. I dont think we can expect to get anything better.
other corps dont seem to be getting the message that not being asshole is more profitable, but I think valve can very easily start thinking that being nice is weakness if that is exploited.
You're absolutely right in thinking that way, but this isn't the only tool of it's kind. The most popular one is GreenLuma, which has multiple thousands of users. So me making a similliar one for Linux doesn't really matter in the grand scale of things
yeah, i just wish people thought more about these things. There are consequences not just to yourself but possibly towards fellow pirates and bystanders. Personally I have benefitted from family sharing greatly, much more than from piracy as with piracy you have to accept the possibility of malware which I cant afford at the moment. I really dont want to see valve rescind it.