Steam, seriously. This rule is outdated as fuck and needs to be removed.

Their Family Sharing program only allows one person on ONE account to play the owner’s library at a time. So, if one of your family members for whatever goddamn reason decides to get on while you’re playing a game from their library, then boom, you’re fucking kicked out, have a nice day. You will then have to wait until they STOP playing to even be able to pick up from where you left off the last time you got kicked out.

Like, what is this bullshit? Why can only one person play ONE game at a time? Roughly 2 hours ago my father was the only one who had RoboCop: Rogue City on Steam because he wanted to share the game with both of us so we BOTH could play it. But lo and behold, he boots up Spider-Man, and boom! I am fucking kicked out mid-game. All because I didn’t ‘own’ it. God forbid someone wants to play a different goddamn game then the game the ones their family members are playing, and God forbid its a co-op game that literally requires two fucking players!

Look, I fucking get it, okay? I fucking understand that we can’t both play one game at the same time. Like, we can’t both play Spider-Man at the same time, one of us is going to have to sacrifice the ability to play it so the person who WANTS to can. But what I DON’T fucking understand is kicking someone out mid-game when their family member is playing an entirely different game than the one they want to play! There. Is. No. Fucking. Point.

What is the goddamn purpose of even having Family Sharing if you’re just gonna kick people out mid-session just because someone else is playing an entirely different game? Like, holy shit, this is a similar problem that I had with Xbox a while back. My ex-stepmother was constantly playing Tetris Effect Connected whilist she was signed into my m Xbox account, and therefore, I was just unable to play anything! Sometimes she would just deliberately kick me out of games on purpose! Guess what? “Oh, I just wanted to play Tetris”. Then play it on your own fucking account! Jesus!

And even if he did get me RoboCop the first time around, guess what? Then if HE wanted to play the game sometime, and I was playing something else like Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, he would’ve not been able to play RoboCop until I stopped playing Bomb Rush! Like, what the fuck, Steam? Why only let people play one fucking game at a time? Imagine I was deep into Final Fantasy VII (I don’t own the Steam version) and hit a save point and just a moment before I attempt to save, I am kicked out beacue my dad started playing an entirely different game! I could lose minutes or even HOURS of progress because I was unable to save before I got kicked out!

But, even worse, imagine if it happened WHILE I was saving! Boom! Now I just got corrupted data. Now I have to restart not from a previous save point, but the very fucking beginning of the game! Oh boy, I would be absolutely furious! “Yeah sure, let’s just kick them out mid-session! Fuck if they’re trying to save their game! Oops, now there’s corrupted data!”. It would absolutely stop me from playing the game altogether if that happened.

Now, the good news is that I told him about it after he started playing Spider-Man Remastered, and oh boy, he felt foolish and guilty. Not that I can blame him for any of this. This is all Steam’s fucking fault because they are still using a legacy and outdated method of Family Sharing and only allowing one person to play one game at one time. It is in no way my dad’s fault, he did not know this would happen and didn’t know any better. So, because he had RoboCop: Rogue City on his account, he had to buy the game AGAIN so he could give me a Steam key to use for my account, which has now activated the game on my account, and I now ‘officially’ own it. So, my dad wasted over $100 on the same game because of Steam’s outdated rule for Family Sharing! It is fucking ridiculous and absolutely retarded!

For the love of fucking God, Steam, fix this shit. Stop kicking people out while they are playing a game from their family’s library just because they decided to play an entirely different game from the one they were playing prior to being kicked out. Sure, two people can’t play the SAME game at once through Family Sharing, but that doesn’t mean they can’t play TWO separate games at once. This essentially makes the concept of ‘Family Sharing’ entirely fucking useless since you still can only play one game at a time. You’d be far better off purchasing the games you want from your family’s library for your goddamn self than have to wait possibly hours to even play the game again. And I am just gonna fucking say it: this whole ‘Family Sharing’ thing is just another fucking form of renting.

Make it make goddamn sense!