Steam :: Steam News :: Introducing Steam Families
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Hello! We are excited to announce Steam Families, available today in the Steam Beta Client. 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.

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
  • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
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    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.ukEnglish
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      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.

            • Retrograde@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              7 months ago

              Instead of the sax talk, I’m going to sit them down to chat about how cheating in video games is bad m’kay

              • Jojo@lemm.eeEnglish
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                7 months ago

                Parents, talk to your kids about saxophones. That, and cheating on video games, are the most important subjects to cover.