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Steam Families is here - Steam News (store.steampowered.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Kissaki@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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Up to 6, sharing your shareable games library

Adult and child accounts, limit child accounts, approve and pay for child buy requests,

Intended for close household family; can't join a different one until one year after joining

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. Other family members are not impacted.

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[–] Crotaro@beehaw.org 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

A pretty good change for how I use Family Sharing. The only detriments seem to be the issue of the game owner being banned for violations of other family members and the 1 year cooldown between leaving and joining a family. Both should be manageable issues, though, if you're at the point of trusting someone enough to log into their machine with your credentials.

[–] Romkslrqusz@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This new system does not involve logging in to another machine with credentials. You send an invite, they accept.

[–] Crotaro@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

Mhmm, I just noticed it yesterday when I first tried using it. But it doesn't seem all good, because apparently it only works (without any workarounds) if you are on the same network. My sister, who lives in the same country but 400 km away, couldn't join upon invitation :c

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