At the moment every user in the family group has the same level of rights for all shared games.
So there is no priority for the original buyer anymore.
It seems to be by design with the new system but lets see if its something they change before it leaves the BETA.

For the moment, if its a game you currently play regularly you could set it to "private" in your Steam library which should exclude it from Family Share.

Hmm, now i wonder what happens if someone plays your game and you set it to private right then, if they get kicked or similar.
BTW you could also switch to Steam Offline mode and play the game, that should work too.
Of course that is only useful if its a non online/multiplayer title.

Originally posted by Ogami:

At the moment every user in the family group has the same level of rights for all shared games.
So there is no priority for the original buyer anymore.
It seems to be by design with the new system but lets see if its something they change before it leaves the BETA.

For the moment, if its a game you currently play regularly you could set it to "private" in your Steam library which should exclude it from Family Share.

Hmm, now i wonder what happens if someone plays your game and you set it to private right then, if they get kicked or similar.
BTW you could also switch to Steam Offline mode and play the game, that should work too.
Of course that is only useful if its a non online/multiplayer title.

about making it private if they are playing I have already tested it and it doesn't kicke it, also try to set the other person as a child and deny them that game but if they are already in it doesn't kick them out.
I also tried to set the other person as a child and deny him/her the game but if he/she is already inside the game it doesn't kick him/her out.

I hope that before it comes out of beta it will put priorities, because it doesn't make sense like this, 2 brothers don't even have to get along and one can open the game just to annoy the other one.

Any asnwer about that? Still cant play my owned game if some1 is allrdy in game... before this every other person was kicked and the owner can play his games

+1

yeah this new system is an absolte joke, adds nothing to it and it makes it so that you cant even play your own games

+1. Had the same problem today.
A family member used my copy of a game for the DLC, and for that I couldn't start my game.

The previous version of sharing had a priority system which would kick me out of the game if the owner wanted to play it and I didn't own a copy, giving me the choice to buy it before crashing to desktop (5 min IIRC). Happened to me once.

I imagine that, if the owner wants to use it, the current player could be shifted to another unused copy in the family, or given the chance to buy it as before. Also, a few minutes to save and quit safely.

why am here

The solution I would see would be to change the "Play" button to something like "Username is playing" and make the behavior of the button to send a terminate signal to the process of the user who is playing if you are the owner (and only the owner). I could also see this being a function for child accounts so a parent can remotely terminate a game being played. Just like the ol' pull the plug on the console that our parents used to do when we wouldn't get off the game when they told us to.

Sadly the old system was unreliable. It would regularly kick people out without showing them the 5 minute warning. Additionally depending on the game 5 min might not be enough to save anyway.

So imho the new system is better since it always lets the lender exit the game safely. If you really need to remotely terminate games to get your children to exit them there ate other tools for that. But you should really try asking first. (Note that doing so via steam has the same reliability problems, better do it in person.)

Hmm, now i wonder what happens if someone plays your game and you set it to private right then, if they get kicked or similar.
BTW you could also switch to Steam Offline mode and play the game, that should work too.
Of course that is only useful if its a non online/multiplayer title. [/quote]
they wont get kicked

Originally posted by *FS* MFR1337:

Hmm, now i wonder what happens if someone plays your game and you set it to private right then

Nothing. The "private" flag only triggers after they end their game session.

+1 still have this issue

This needs to change the owner of the game should always have priority. I have had an issue where the person would not close or exit the game, and I could not play, even being the owner of the game. This is idiotic.

This is ridiculous. I'm having the same issue. Bought Black Myth Wukong and can't play it cause someone else in the family group is playing... lol

This might be deliberate to limit the nonfamily sharing. Normally you'd be able to just walk up to the other person and ask them to exit the game, or otherwise talk it out. A hostile takeover is an issue if you're not in the same house.

So the way I see it, they want this problem to exist.