Steam News - Steam Families is here - Steam News
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Hello! We are excited to announce Steam Families is now available for all users. Steam Families is a collection of new and existing family-related features. It replaces both Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View, giving you a single location to manage which games your family can access and when they can play. Create a Steam Family To get started, you can create a Steam Family and then invite up to 5 family members.

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
    16·
    5 months ago

    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.

    • Malix@sopuli.xyz
      21·
      5 months ago

      Both seem reasonable. The banning is (AFAIK) mostly to prevent cheaters from making made-up familymember steam -accounts, and cheating in games as them. Once one made-up family member is banned, make another.

      • Crotaro@beehaw.org
        5·
        5 months ago

        You’re right. And sure, it’s gonna suck for the twelve legitimate people who lose their access because their sibling is a dickwad, but that’s an okay tradeoff if it prevents a sudden surge of cheats.

        • Vodulas [they/them]@beehaw.org
          2·
          5 months ago

          Not sure if I am reading this wrong, but I think it is just the one that did the cheating and game owner that get banned

          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.

          Emphasis mine

    • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
      5·
      5 months ago

      It’s one year cooldown after joining a family share. I.e. if you leave half a year after joining, you have to wait another half a year to join another family share.

      Adults can leave a family at any time, however, they will need to wait 1 year from when they joined the previous family to create or join a new family.

      https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/13005467

    • Romkslrqusz@lemm.ee
      3·
      5 months ago

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