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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.

haha

  • Crotaro@beehaw.org
    17·
    2 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
      23·
      2 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
          3·
          2 months 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?

      • Crotaro@beehaw.org
        5·
        2 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
          4·
          2 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
      9·
      2 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
      6·
      2 months ago

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

      • Crotaro@beehaw.org
        1·
        2 months ago

        Mhmm, I just noticed it yesterday when I first tried using it. But it doesn’t seem all good, because apparently it only works (without any workarounds) if you are on the same network. My sister, who lives in the same country but 400 km away, couldn’t join upon invitation :c

    • Drigo
      6·
      2 months ago

      Honestly, I think it’s the best solution to also ban the owner.