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Just wondering if I can buy a game on steam, install steam on different PCs so that I can play coop with my sons. Trying to see if we can play borderlands 3 together. I might want to do this on 3 separate PCs in the same house. Any help would be awesome.

 
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No you can't. You need the game on separate accounts (buy multiple times). 

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Nope.

Theres steam family sharing but it limits to one PC at a time. 

 

Other games support steam remote play, take a look into that 

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You can install it on multiple PC's, but once you start up the game on these multiple PC's (or really, once you start up any games on two computers, on one account) it will kick out the other account.

If you try to use Family Sharing, a similar thing will happen. If you have the game started on the shared account and the original starts the game, it will kick the shared account out of the game (I think it does give a couple minutes, to save the game).

 

If you want to play a game co-op, you need to buy it multiple times.

Sometimes the publisher of the game has some deals, where you can buy a bundle of multiple games, but it doesn't seem like there is something like that for Borderlands 3.

There does seem to be a 67% sale on Steam right now

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Dang! I  was worried something like this would be the case... would there be a workaround for something like this? i.e play the game offline and in LAN mode or something? Trying not to buy a game 3 times if you know what I mean.

 
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41 minutes ago, Slottr said:

Nope.

Theres steam family sharing but it limits to one PC at a time.

not sure if it has been changed a lot.

but there was the idea of being able to do family sharing, but only in offline mode and so more can play on the account?

Likely no coop, other than splitscreen.

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