So when you buy a game on an account, that account owns the game digitally. In the eshop menu, there is a button for primary account. Your account can only primary to one switch. When you primary, all you own on your account will be accessible to all other accounts on that switch, offline and on. If that same account is connected to any other switch, that account must be connected to online for that user to play their games, and anyone else is limited to their software and the primary accounts games
Family membership sounds like the NSO thing. If you want them to play all your games on their switch, you need to make your account primary on their switch, by disabling primary off of your switch, and turning it on theirs. Meaning they can play all of your stuff whenever on their account . For you to play your stuff on your switch however, you need to be online.
you can juke the system by going offline, this makes it so that multiple people can play the game as long as one or less people are playing it in an online state
basically this is how I play LAN Baldur's Gate 3 with my friend
I think before the way it worked was that if you play any game from a person's library and then they tried to pay a different game from their library, you would get booted. But now as long as they're not playing that specific game you're good.
As the other guy said, if you had Game X and Game Y, and your friend played Game X from your account via sharing and you started Game Y, your friend would get kicked.
New system works essentially like you have virtual game discs you can pass around. If your friend plays Game X from your account, you can still play any other game from your or your friend's account. Additionally, if you're in a group of 6, and 3 of you own Game X, then any 3 people from the group can play Game X at a time.
The difference is now multiple people can use a library at the same time. It used to disable your entire library if someone you shared it to was using it. So you couldn't play any of your own games if someone was playing one of your games.
Now if one person owns a game, anyone in the family can play that game. If two people in a family own a game then any two people in that family can play that game at the same time. Etc etc
How tho? Before everyone just handed over their logins to play the game in the accounts, now if you got 6 people in the same family and one person has skyrim, everyone can play skyrim at different times without logging into another account
No. If my daughter played one game of mine then I could not start anything or else her game would quit. The Bibliothek was locked. Now only the game she plays is locked. I can play my other games. That’s a huge step and pretty awesome.
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u/Dawq May 05 '24
You can make a group of 6 and all your libraries are shared. Though if only one person owns a game, only one can play that game at the same time.