I was so hopeful... pretty much useless for me as I live in a different country to my family.
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I could've sworn this was already a feature
Am I getting the Mandela effect?
The previous 'family sharing' feature allowed for you to share your games with someone else, provided you were not playing any games at the moment.
This new family sharing seems to allow you to share your library even if you're playing another game.
Nice! Now, all I need to do is make the babies.
For sure, all of us who have been waiting to fall in love, get married, and have kids, are now free to do so now that we have better steam library sharing. I know it was the main thing most people have been waiting for.
Maybe now I'll finally be able to share my library with my partner
You could before, but any games with steam DRM (which is most of them) would lock your library if your spouse was using it.
*Most people could. My library has some kind of fucked issue. Had to reach out to steam support who were absolutely useless.
It would not lock your library if someone was playing one of your games. You could start any game in your library and the family member would be given a 15 minute period to wrap up their session before being booted. It had nothing to do with steam drm either.
Source: I actually used family sharing a few times.
The steam DRM does matter, games that don't have it could be played without it licking the library. I didn't know that they gave you a full 15 min though, I just knew my son would complain about being unable to play unless I was in something DRM free like Caves of Qud.
I hope it will work better than current family. There is so much friction to share one game with your kid that I almost gave up.
I'm curious how aggressive it will be at limiting families who live in different houses from sharing games.
The article specifically states that it is meant for "same household" families. But will it actively prevent that?
Time to install tailscale.
Hopefully, they're not as aggressive as Netflix - can't even share a login with the in-laws across the street...
I don't think so, at least not yet. They might try to prevent it later if it starts getting widely abused.
Narrator: "It did get widely abused."
Too bad that if my kid cheats I will be banned too. :(
If your kid cheats, you failed as a parent :)
It is possible to commit no mistakes in raising a child and they still be little shits. That is not a weakness; that is life.
With cooldowns for abuse prevention now on the table, I wish Valve will consider adding something like a "day pass" for Steam friends where they can share their libraries—or perhaps specific games—for a short duration to someone they know without having to adopt them.
With cooldowns they would find appropriate, of course. And I hope that isn't a whole year...
What happens if my brother gets banned for cheating while playing my game?
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.
Fuck that, yo.
If you have a Steam family with 4 members each owning a copy of a game, and the 5th member that doesn't gets banned. Which of the 4 accounts gets banned?
Since the game copies are "pooled" in the family, you are not sharing from anyone in particular, you have all games in the family available. So who gets banned?
That's actually nothing new, it's been like that with family sharing for ages. If the family share account gets banned, the owner of the game gets banned as well* so that they can't keep making alt accounts to bypass the ban. Others in your family not being impacted by the ban would actually be an improvement - it used to be that if the owner is banned, anyone family sharing the game would be as well.
*There are exceptions with a few games, like Dark Souls 3, which doesn't ban your main account so you can use family share to play mods in coop. Elden Ring bans both, however.
I understand why, and it makes sense to me. But I wouldn't want to take that chance.
It's not so much that I know a family member would knowingly cheat, but who knows if a friend might convince them to try a mod or something, and not know it could potentially get them banned, ya know?
I get you.
Here's hoping this new thing allows them to make it work better eventually, as the current system is a result of the older family share system - before the owner banning was implemented plenty of games just disabled family sharing entirely as a workaround for ban evasion.
Right now I believe the only workaround would be to use the parental controls to not share those games you care about enough.
Not for me.
My kiddo is kinda an butthead and I know he will absolutely figure out how to get banned.
Is there a non-zero chance you’d add a potential cheater to your Steam family?
I could imagine someone’s kid doing it
Teach your children to not cheat.
That's probably to avoid someone buying a game, and then cheating on a child account to avoid bans.
yeah necessary rule fsure
Really awesome news!
The previous system was rather arcane - this bodes much better for the father in law that doesn't know how texting works but does know how RTSes work...
Amazing!! My kid is going to love this.
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