I am ready to declare kanly upon Steam.

It’s really, really simple. My kid plays all the LEGO games. I don’t. They’re on my Steam account. All I want to do is transfer them somehow so that my kid can play them without booting me off of the network when I’m trying to play Fallout 4 in peace and quiet. But I can’t set up a kid account, and I apparently can’t transfer the games out of my account, and I don’t want to spend two hundred bucks to put those games on a new Steam account for my child, and the forums are full of people who have been snarling about this for going on half a decade.

So. I guess it’s gonna be kanly, then? I’d much rather that it wasn’t…

11 thoughts on “I am ready to declare kanly upon Steam.”

  1. Go ahead and ask the Harkonnnnennsnnsnenes….er, ask the Harkonnens how well that worked out for ’em. Come to think of it, ‘ol Gabe is looking like he could use a suspensor or two. Yes, I went for the cheap-a$$ fat joke, I’m not proud.

    1. OH, I see you both can’t be on at the same time even with separate accounts… How is this feature useful then?

  2. Yup, if I had kids that would be an issue. But the LEGO games I mostly get on one of the consoles anyways.

  3. I have a similar complaint with Kindle, you cannot divide and remove books from a shared account. Not something I though of back when the 1st gen Kindle came out.

  4. Piter De Vries: Vendetta, he says, using the ancient tongue. The art of kanly is still alive in the Universe. He does not wish to meet or speak with you.
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    Baron Harkonnen: I made my peace gesture. The forms of kanly have been obeyed!

  5. The way I understand it (Legal disclaimer), you can share your library with him but he will need his own account. As far as I can tell, he can play his Lego games while you are playing Fallout. I’ll test that out at home today.

  6. If one of you logs in to steam and goes offline, the other one can then log in and play.

  7. Mmmm…can’t help you there…it was a task for me just to twin my account onto my laptop.
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    And my gom jabbar is at the dry cleaners.

  8. Are you *just* playing Fallout 4 (and not other games)? It might make sense for you to dedicate your current account to the kid and pay $35 to set up a new account for *you* (rather than $200 to set up a new account for the kid).

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