[Invite] [Family Share] Users in Family Share beta are marked as "Already Joined" despite not receiving an invite email

[ajmix]

Thought I'd help summarise what we've sort of confirmed so far, for anyone else coming across this thread:

• If you don't own Deadlock but played it via family share (for at least 2-3 hours?), the game will be added to your personal library in about ~1-2 days. This seems to be the only known "fix" for people not getting invites because of the family share issues
• As of writing this, it seems invites are still not working for people who are family sharing with someone who already owns (and has played?) the game
  • Disabling family share/revoking access does not help in any way
• You can try posting your steam account on the forums or discord, but its unlikely you'll get help from a Deadlock/Valve dev. I've only seen a few people successfully get help like this on the discord
  • Steam support doesn't help either

Workaround:

• If you really want to play - inviting an alt account works, as long as that alt account is not family sharing with another account that has the game
  • You can then family share to your main account and play via family share (this will then help you receive the game on your main account, which is the only known "fix")
  • To receive an invite on the alt account, it can't be a "limited" account - I think you have to spend at least $5 on the account (you can just gift your main account something, for example)

Now for the bad news. As of writing this, it looks like they've disabled family share on Deadlock again. So if you currently don't have access to the game and didn't already play it via family share, you'll probably have to wait for the devs to finally fix the invites or for them to re-enable family share.

 

[yakovlev.maxim.1111]

I have the same problem. https://steamcommunity.com/id/elow11111/ my profile
Friend profile https://steamcommunity.com/id/gdelevo
My friend cannot accept the invitation

 

[kibner]

I also sent my partner who is part of the Steam Family Sharing an invite several days ago and they still have not received it. They did not attempt to launch the shared version of the game or anything. Other friends I have sent an invite to have received it in short order.

If manual fixes are still being applied, my partner's profile is https://steamcommunity.com/id/zheta/

My partner received access today. It took roughly two weeks after sending her the invite.

 

[toucheamore]

My son had this issue after I invited him and it looks like sometime in the last couple days, the game was unlocked for him. There was no notification.

If you've come to this thread, I'd suggest checking the library of the affected user, I'm guessing they got it working on their end.