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FINAL FANTASY XIV Online: How Can I Play When I Have Family Share On?

Short answer

No confirmed fix yet. Players suggest: whenever i try to boot the demo it just shows the normal launcher the paid version not the demo thats one of the main problems.

The problem

steam doesnt lets me go into the free trial, the launcher ALWAYS boots on the paid one, why??? theres literally no way to steam to even let me select the free demo version for some reason this is strange and stupid...

GreenMario, original post

What players suggest

you can still make your own free trial account and play the game. your issue is that you want to do it via family share for personal reasons. Its mmo not single player game i do not think you understood. STEAM ITSELF DOES NOT SHOWS THE DEMO ANYMORE!!! and i dont want to get out of family share because of the OTHER GAMES, i cannot just "turn off" family share, or i am booted or am on it. theres…

GreenMario

i do not think you understood. STEAM ITSELF DOES NOT SHOWS THE DEMO ANYMORE!!! and i dont want to get out of family share because of the OTHER GAMES, i cannot just "turn off" family share, or i am booted or am on it. theres no inbetween, and steam does NOT let me just "turn off" a specific game from family share. whenever i try to boot the demo it just shows the normal launcher the paid version…

$CRWTNY

This person is taking time out of their day to offer you free technical support, btw. Put in a support ticket and ask Steam or Square Enix directly. its such a old ass problem it baffles me they never fixed this. and its even more of a problem on the square side because its a launcher issue, the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ launcher detects a license, your friends one even when you literally right click on steam to…

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