I was planning to buy one Quest3 for each kid, (today - I have one, and they share one) I am not totally comfortable with being logged in as myself on my kids's Quests - mostly in case they game as me by mistake or something. So I asked support how to avoid being logged in on each kid's Quest - if possible. To my surprise: meta told me that I can only share games with ONE other device, so they basically advise against buying more devices, and having kids spend more time on them. So by not allowing to properly game sharing with kids : they limit their own sales (which is beyond stupid). today - I bought my first PCVR game on Steam (pre-order on "into the radius 2")specifically *instead* of buying it on Quest store. Here is why: On steam, I can freely share with both kids, and who is logged in on the Quest(s) is irrelevant. And if someone says "does both kids have good enough GPU today to run it? - then the simple answer is: only one of them now, but next time I upgrade my GPU , the other will have a nvidia4080 too - after all - this is about making sure they can have the games later - and in a few years, "all" GPU's will be good enough for this.
So in short: the awful restrictive "family sharing" made me prefer to buy VR game on Steam - because even on Steam I cannot really own a game, but at least I can share it properly with my kids.
Just make sure your kids don't want to play the same game at the same time, otherwise even with Steam Family Sharing you need to buy the game twice. (Only as many people as you own licenses can play a family shared game at the same time).
Cool. Just checking, they changed the Steam Family Sharing rules 2 months ago.
HL Alyx is great.
They really do need to update the family thing. Bringing in 10-12 accounts, pushing cheaper headsets and seeing how many families are getting multiple headsets, but they are still lagging so far behind places like Steam. The Steam system where every family member (up to 6) shares all of their games into one big family pool and it tracks license count for multiple people playing at once is so much better than Meta's 1 account shares with 2 (or 3, I forget) accounts on a single headset.
