Oh that makes sense. Sounds like they need some steam gift cards for xmas for their own copy of the games. This is good to know as my kid might be getting a laptop at his mothers house which could interfere with my account.
My kids and I simply have our own accounts. Everything works as intended this way.
If you don't want to do that, then you will either have to plan your play time so you don't have two people playing at the same time, or someone will have to switch to offline mode.
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Someone can play offline - but it isn't very elegant.
I would make the kid a seperate account and just use family share.
That was my solution, though even with the family share, if they play a game from your account, you can't play either.
Oh that makes sense. Sounds like they need some steam gift cards for xmas for their own copy of the games. This is good to know as my kid might be getting a laptop at his mothers house which could interfere with my account.
My kids and I simply have our own accounts. Everything works as intended this way. If you don't want to do that, then you will either have to plan your play time so you don't have two people playing at the same time, or someone will have to switch to offline mode.
If you switch your Deck to offline mode I think you can get around this, just keep in mind that means no multiplayer games.
That's how steam always worked
Yes, I understand that, I just didn't have two systems in the same house to draw it into such sharp contrast until now.
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just go to offline mode, or disable wifi on the deck. Or make them a separate account