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Steam :: Introducing Steam Families (steamcommunity.com)
submitted 8 months ago by Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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Valve announced a replacement feature for both Family Sharing and Family View. Currently in beta.

Features:

  • up to 5 members
  • game sharing
  • parental controls
    • allow access to appropriate games
    • restrict access to the Steam Store, Community or Friends Chat
    • set playtime limits (hourly/daily)
    • view playtime reports
    • approve or deny requests from child accounts for additional playtime or feature access (temporary or permanent)
    • recover a child's account if they lost their password
  • child purchase requests
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[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 71 points 8 months ago (14 children)

If a family member gets banned for cheating while playing your copy of a game, you (the game owner) will also be banned in that game.

This is going to be hilarious. Can't wait to see the whining online.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 43 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Isn't that exactly the same as how it worked before?

There may have been a brief moment where that didn't happen, and then people discovered they could make cheat accounts, share their own games with them and get only the cheat accounts banned, and then make new ones and repeat.

[–] Jaybob32@lemmy.ca 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It is. My vac ban is currently 4990 days old. Thanks son!

[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

TIL to make my future children their own steam accounts

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And buy them their own copies of online games.

[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Instead of the sax talk, I'm going to sit them down to chat about how cheating in video games is bad m'kay

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

Parents, talk to your kids about saxophones. That, and cheating on video games, are the most important subjects to cover.

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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