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Steam :: Introducing Steam Families (steamcommunity.com)
submitted 6 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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[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 79 points 6 months ago (11 children)

This is pretty fantastic. I have two kids that I share with, and when one plays any game from my library currently, my entire library gets locked out from the other kid. Changing this to a game by game basis makes so much more sense.

[–] daddy32@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't the offline mode solve this?

[–] Vejezdigna@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Only the parent can play while being online. Their two kids must be logged in.

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