License Family Sharing

Enable Steam Family Sharing to grant licenses to dedicated derver accounts without additional purchase

Written by Philipp

Updated 6 months ago

Prerequisite: You must have created two Steam accounts

This does NOT work for all Steam accounts depending what license your account has and which region your account has been created in.
This also applies if you have
- Bought the game through a key reseller
- Bought the game through a Steam bundle

This will NOT allow you to play on multiple accounts, this is only applicable to titles like DayZ, that require a license to download game server content

This guide shows you the steps to follow for enabling Steam Family Sharing on a dedicated server account, allowing you to download protected game server content without purchasing another license.

Things to have on hand:
- Primary account with a license (Origin account)
- Secondary account without a license (Shared account)

All steps must be done on the same device, that has the Origin account already present and logged in and the game title must be installed as well as recently played.

Steps:

1. Log in on your personal device to Steam Client with your Origin account

2. Log in on your personal device to Steam Client with your Shared account

3. Go to Steam Client Settings

4.Navigate to Family

5. Toggle the switch to allow Library Sharing on the device

6. Toggle the switch for the Shared account (name will be Steam profile name)

7. Switch to Shared account

8. Repeat steps 3 to 6 on the Shared account

9. Restart Steam

10. Start the title you want to share

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