How to effectively disable family sharing and reduce botting/exploiters -- Amazon, please read!

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These people will still argument against the fact that account sharing is literally prohibited in AGS’ terms of use and code of conduct. And they think because it’s on Steam they don’t need to follow AGS terms. Ridiculous.

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Argument is a strong word, it’s more like “I just wanna play for free”…

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what my innocent daughter do then?
she is level 60
very clean player never break any law or cheat never done anything bad she is playing in her account sharing the game from my account
this is unfair. cheaters already have multiple accounts and can make more. why you punish innocent good players???
how about Amazon work with Valve and ban the bad accounts and all other accounts linked to that bad account it will be great solution. not punishing innocent people with very cheap lazy fix.

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if you can afford a pc that runs new world you can afford to buy more than one license for the game

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IDK, maybe have her parent(you) buy the game for her that she is enjoying so you can play at the same time together. And if you already are playing at the same time, then being able to do that with her instead of exploiting a bug in steam to allow you both to play at the same time together. IDK, doing what is normal in literally every B2P MMO

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Yeah right, this is such an ignorant response. A used gaming pc that can run new world cost 500$ which is 1/10 of the game price…
So lets say I have 2 child’s who both want to play this game including me (only one pc) that is 150$ that’s 3/10 of the pc…
So no not everyone who has a pc that they can use use for multiple years can afford multiple licenses. And no we don’t want to play this game for free (because I happy pay 50$ for it) I want to be able to share this game with my household without paying too much for it. We are still paying for the same amount of hours to play this game, we still can still only play 24h a day with the license because only one player can be online at the time (at least that’s how it should be without glitching)

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No one is sharing accounts. Account B is using account A’s Library, two completely separate accounts. Through a completely “legal” feature called steam family share. Zero exploits at all, literally how its meant to be used.

you can try all you want, there is nothing within terms of service from AGS, STEAM or anything else that makes your baselss claim more valid.

Seethe.

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$500 for a pc that can run this game, lmao. didn’t need to read anything after the first sentence so thanks for the laugh

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While I understand this point of view, and that works for singleplayer games that have run the development cycle to completion, it fails for an MMO.
MMOs need consistent development and deployment of assets to keep the long-term playerbase. No other B2P MMO on steam has family sharing enabled. They have to pay for server costs for these people who are paying their game for free and in return, they get a few more members and tons of bots/cheaters that take resources to get rid of. However, if those few new free members can’t/won’t pay for the game then how likely are they to buy things from the store shop.?

Its a no-win situation for an MMO developer to have family share enabled unless they have microtransactions, etc to support the game.

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My second hand pc was 500$ and can run this fine on low settings…
(maybe you can’t get one anymore bcs of the shortage but I bought this one 2 years ago so yeah)

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there is no way a 2 year old secondhand pc for that cheap can run this game on anything more than single digit fps at the most potato settings, are you seriously telling me that your entire family switches accounts to take turns playing this game like a powerpoint presentation? excellent bait but still, lol

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This has nothing todo with the family sharing a couple lines of code can fix this aka steam ban & blocking the player if the ownerid is already playing.

Yeah and the problem is that this isn’t an argument since the long-term playerbase doesn’t have to buy the game anymore. Family shared members still give revenue through cosmetics? coins etc…

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Yes my theoretical childs have strict gaming hours each of there own, that’s not that weird. Maybe in your household they all have there own gaming pc’s for a lot of money but that’s impossible for the average parent.

Oh and btw my pc with a gtx 980 that I bought second hand was indeed $580 so yeah (forgot about the conversion rate)

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You are looking for an excuse to continue playing without paying. Why don’t you pirate the game as well? And crack the Steam API verification so you can play the game without paying?

EDIT: I just realized we are arguing against a troll who keeps saying “my theoretical girlfriend” and “my theoretical kids” – meaning, they don’t actually have a girlfriend or kids they are just doing this for the sake of discussing and trolling.

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if you’re gonna make shit up you should at least try to make it believable my guy

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Garbage? No.
However, I would not be surprised if they are severely understaffed.

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I see a license as an account and by the terms written it’s not allowed to share accounts, thus not allowed to share licenses.

Still, I don’t think family sharing was an intended feature for New World. If it was they wouldn’t be looking at disabling/fixing it because a lot of people are abusing the feature so they can exploit the game and not get banned in their main account.

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Let’s see a list of MMOs on Steam which have Family Sharing disabled:

No one ever complained about not being able to share these games with their household. I think it’s pretty much common sense that family sharing (read: account sharing) is not allowed in MMOs and even if it is, it doesn’t make sense, specially if your game depends on a player-built world and economy.

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If I remember correctly, when using Steam Family Share, you can’t BOTH be playing a game from the same library, so they’re not playing “WITH” family/friends.

If User A owns New World and User B is playing New World as a shared game from User A, User A can’t access any other game within the shared library until User B is no longer playing.

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Yeah cool because game x does this x must do it as well! Lets jump all off a bridge together because x did it!