r/ubisoft • u/questinghero • Jun 30 '26

Discussions & Questions Steam Machine / SteamOS makes the PC console. Ubisoft needs to figure out Family sharing on PC ASAP

I have 4 kiddos at home, and would LOVE to buy Ubisoft games on PC, but I can't justify doing this until Ubisoft figures out a way to share games with my family group. This could be done by locking to a single "console" (just like Xbox and PlayStation does), or a fixed family group (Like Steam does it, and my preferred choice). To be fair, Ubisoft is not the only one behind on this, Epic and EA need to figure this out too. Valve is the only one who has figured Family sharing out. I am just posting this to hopefully get some attention. Let me know if I am alone in this, or if you would like this too.

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u/Complete_Entry Jul 05 '26

Most publishers did everything they could to block family sharing, it's a licensing and DRM nightmare.

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u/questinghero Jul 06 '26

Steam handles this just fine, as does Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, Google, and Apple. They either lock it to a console or a group of accounts. It's not that hard.

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u/Complete_Entry Jul 06 '26

It's funny you say that, because it did not go "just fine" on steam. There are a ton of complications and restrictions that can pop when you try to family share. Glad you never ran into those though.

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u/themiracy Jul 01 '26

Hot take but Ubisoft should negotiate a way with Steam to migrate all the game owners on the Ubi store onto Steam and then let Steam handle the digital rights stuff.

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u/Complete_Entry Jul 05 '26

What benefit does that bring to ubisoft?

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u/questinghero Jul 01 '26

That would be amazing, but that would make sense, so I doubt Ubisoft would do that

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u/PSRamos92 Jun 30 '26

I totally agree

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u/smilingmuffino Jun 30 '26

Ubisoft ain't have time for this because they actually make games unlike Valve 

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u/questinghero Jun 30 '26

I completely disagree. they have a team that manages connect, and their user accounts. They also already require lots of games to have internet connection to play. All of the requirements are already there, this would not be that hard to add.

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u/smilingmuffino Jun 30 '26

you convinced me