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Introducing Steam Families (youtu.be)
submitted 9 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world
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[–] Virkkunen@fedia.io 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That is not how the new families work. The new on all you need to do is sent an invite and they'll be able to join the family. No need to log in their computers or authorise anything, just a simple invite.

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It actually is how it worked in the beta at least. I've been using it for several months with my friends and the invite wouldn't work unless I had logged into steam on their pc previously.

[–] Virkkunen@fedia.io 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That is certainly not the case, either something unexpected happened or either of you didn't have the families beta on. I have never logged in someone else's PC and neither have someone logged on mine, I always use Steam on beta and I was able to send family invites to my friends, however only the ones in my region (country) were able to join.

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 1 points 9 months ago

I did (and do) have the families beta on. Maybe that's the way it worked for some people? I don't know, but it certainly is what happened in my case.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

How new is it? I just set this up about 2 weeks ago and it required logging into both computers