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Steam Families is here - Steam News (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

The best option would be a checkbox to exclude the sharing of VAC games

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I could be mistaken but I think I read something about being able to choose which games a child member can see and play? If your adult sis is prone to getting banned, just invite her as child, if the system works like that. Sure, the terms "adult" and "child" are more intuitive for regular people, but in essence it's just "admin/mod" and "member", no?

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