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Steam :: Introducing Steam Families (steamcommunity.com)

submitted 7 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 73 points 7 months ago

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 7 months ago

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.