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"Family Sharing"/Link multiple accounts
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DeathArcanum Family sharing would make for an easier time with organizing games by multiple family users if they can access each other's games without having to constantly log off and on. Achievement progress and time spent on the game could be individualized per user as well.
cwagoner I agree. this would be a significant benefit to the platform.
xKhaozs Absence of this feature just make me regret of buying cyberpunk on gog...
poopydoodle I have purchased games for my 10 year old, who now has his own pc and we can't be both logged in to Gog Galaxy at the same time. So annoying. I am not getting my 10 year old his own account, he doesn't know how to handle it or anything. There should be no reason he can't login to my account on Galaxy. I am very perturbed by this.
sansei Steam library can be used by just 1 user at any given moment.
GOGs library can be used by any number of users and on unlimited number of machines at the same time. You can do multiplayer with your kids, or you can play different games - all is allowed as GOG doesn't impose any technical restrictions, and the only legal one is that you're not allowed to install games on computers you don't own.
This is the true power of DRM-Free which GOG embraces.
Family Sharing on Steam, or Android, or Microsoft store, is a method by which these stores soften a bit restrictions they enforced. It's far from sufficient for most parents who still need to buy multiple copies of same game for their kids to play it together.
In my opinion, if GOG is persuaded to implement Family Sharing they'll need to also add some form of limitations which it doesn't have at the moment, otherwise people would abuse this system.
That would be the end of DRM-Free system. I'm really surprised so many people upvote this thread. Do you really prefer the Steam model?
ariston1983 it would be great feature specially as part of "parental control". parent can share game for their kids, watch which game they allowed to play, how many time they spend playing. and as parent we do not share any payment method in their account, they can play game that we (parent) purchase and share with them.
NimthirielRinon Definitely want this feature. Feels like penny-pinching to not have it, and only encourages account-sharing, which GOG doesn't want. Please add this feature, because if I live in the same house as someone, we shouldn't have to pay for the same game twice.
trng That would be awesome.
batesman I have Gog Galaxy installed on a single PC that my son and I use for gaming. It is a SUPREME hassle trying to both play games in my library on a single PC. You have to shut Galaxy down completely from one account to use it on the other. Sheesh. It's 2021 already - get with the program.
babutto Agreed.
My dad likes old games and will be happy to replay some.
TJW65 +1
Hakuso3 It's legal to share games on your home computer, which is why even Steam (and consoles) has a Family Share option, installed games owned by the parent being able to be played by the kids without mucking up achievement staus for us would be a nice thing to have.
VBProject You can do this on GOG:
1. Have accounts 1 & 2 as friends.
2. Install needed game(s) from account 1.
3. Start them via Galaxy and "play" for a minute. Close all and logout.
4. Log in to account 2.
5. On the right tab got to Recent - Played by others.
6. Click on games - Mark as owned - Link exe.
DONE
Method not perfect but workable.
GOGGERVault Yes please, we tried to setup GOG Galaxy on two machines and it did not go well.
watcher0066 Dear GOG, I really would like this feature since my brother and I both share our large Steam libraries.
PJanaszk Dear GOG I beg You for that functionality. That's "must have" in outr times.
Laggy_Trash I would greatly appreciate this feature being added. Logging in is such a pain because of Recaptcha. Last time I tried to log into my own separate account, it must have taken at least 10 minutes. I honestly wondered if I would ever be able to log in.
CL4P-TP_Ninja I'd also really like to see Family Shared games show up in my "owned games" list on GOG. I buy a lot of single player games for my kids on Steam that I also want to play when they're not around, but GOG is not showing any of those games in my list.
Ehren1337 Yes.
rtmills I'd also really like to have this feature. I prefer to buy from GOG.com because I support their DRM-free philosophy, but it sure is easier for my kids to play the games I purchase on Steam.
m.io It is disappointing that this functionality of sharing between accounts is not available. This is the point of DRM free imo.
Makein Need this too
nocci.north Yeah. This is something I and my wife would like to see.
Sharing is caring, right? ;-)
kainerweissmann From 2017 on users asking for this and still no update on this? Sad...
h8g8c8 Only thing stopping me from actually using this client is that it only has access to a fraction of games
atibus I have three gamer kids and would love to share games with them.
wally666 This is why I buy on Steam: easy sharing games with my children
HadaCrystal Dear GOG programmers,
With the global pandemic of CoVid-19 going one, I think to have a clear and simple system on games that can be bought once and enjoyed by the whole family (playing at the same time or not) like Google does with the "Family friendly" star badge, it would be VERY timely. Seriously... We all need it. Please.
Thief_a Im signing this too.
Got shared steam-games with my bro, while i like galaxy so far, as its less full of bs (just want to launch my games, idc for more) im still having to use steam for the shared games
Teeshy I'd like to add my voice in support of this too! We've already re-bought all the games I had on this account on my husband's account, as he had more originally than me anyway, but now that we are sharing the games on his account, we have to be careful not to mess with each others saves etc
.Apathy. i was basically forced to create a second account to save my console gwent progress and have to switch between accounts whenever i want to play gwent, it would be nice not to
Latcady It's sad to see this petition has been going since 2017 and still no word from GOG on this. Family sharing would be amazing, my BF and I can't share games we should be able to between our 2 accounts because of the cloud save issue. Please add this feature GOG!
thedarkcloak Yes please! In our household we both have GOG accounts, and it's a hassle to log into eachothers accounts on our computers whenever we want to play one anothers games.
Originally we would have just had one shared account, but some multiplayer games (hello No Man's Sky & Diablo) still require you to have 2 GOG copies on separate accounts.
Enabling a family shared library would be amazing and user-friendly.
Exoticcantor I use:
Steam <> +Family Sharing
Uplay 1 Account + 2 Account (friends sharing)
Origin 1 Account + 1 Account (friends sharing)
Are be nice to get multi Account access!
THX
p984 I just want this to share games with my kids. So they can use their own galaxy accounts, cloud saves, steam achievements; on their own computers, as well as the shared PC in the living room.
The way our Nintendo switch has multiple user profiles; so each of us can have our own saves, friends, etc.
I can imagine balancing 'DRM free / trust' with any restrictions on linking/sharing is going to be a massive headache and likely any proposed limitation will piss off some portion of the community.
Simply having GoG galaxy to 'see' all installed galaxy games on a shared PC regardless of which user/profile installed them; but manage cloud saves/acheivements/etc based on the logged in galaxy user would be a pretty decent compromise.
aberrantwolf My wife is literally choosing not to play The Witcher because she doesn't want to mess up my cloud saves and also doesn't want to go through the hassle of disabling cloud saves but only on her computer.
Celo_Sk yes please
silvrdark Yes, please! This would simplify so many things for my family of gamers.
gokhanaaa Need it
micebirds Absolutely need!
JaceTaran I'd very much like support for Steam games that have already been enabled in our Steam Family Sharing.
Since Galaxy 2.0 already requires the client to be downloaded, Galaxy should, in theory, be able to detect games in Steam Family Sharing, AT LEAST on that particular machine. Steam Family Sharing is handled on a machine by machine basis on Steams side of things, but (again, in theory) Galaxy should be able to communicate with the installed Steam client to see if Family Sharing has been enabled on that particular machine.
SupremDOS This would be realy cool! I have 3 PSN accounts and I have some trouble finding some games.
YouKnowHerWell Why would you need this, we're talking about GOG, there's no DRM.
Kes_Gaming_YT Definitely need this! I have games shared to my main account from two alts, so this is a must have!
rywebster To be clear, I would want access to my Steam Family Sharing games from within Galaxy 2.0.
rywebster I'll throw in my vote for this being essential as well! :) Thank you! Loving 2.0 so far!
SirKalen Absolutely need this, please.
Amazonil Yes please - this is very important to me! At least let me add the games of a family members Steamgames (I'd remove non-familyshare games manually)
Over 80% of all my games are on a family-share steam account
Lyn_ This is needed to get me to switch over to 2.0. A large portion of the games I play in my Steam library is family shared, and if I can't play the games I want to play then there's no point of the launcher for me.
Deltarys You can download a backup copy of the game, copy the files and install it on your friend/family PC
Gobydon Just coming over from Steam. What I always wanted is the ability to play one game from my library on one computer and be able to play a second game at the same time on another, in the same household. So not abusing the system by letting my buddy in the next town over play all my games. Just want to have access to my games in my own house. With Steam it kinda works but DRM games will not because with steam you still need to link two separate accounts and a game under DRM will only launch from my account regardless of family sharing.
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