Introducing Steam Families

2 years ago by Blxter to c/steam

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.

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Lemmchen 37 points 2 years ago

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.

That kinda sucks.

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ByGourou 32 points 2 years ago

That's necessary, "it was my brother who cheated" is the oldest lie.

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Piemanding 13 points 2 years ago

It would be great to blanket disallow games that you can get banned in. Especially VAC bans.

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tortiscu 2 points 2 years ago

Is it though? If they are not banning the whole family, what prevents me from adding a new little brother?

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papertowels 1 point 2 years ago

Except that lie is often used when sharing an account.

Under this system, there is no ambiguity in terms of if it was you or your brother.

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mp3 24 points 2 years ago

I kinda hope they grant the ability to block some games from being shared. I trust my kids not to use cheats, but I can understand being a bit paranoid from being banned from a game you really enjoy and not wanting to take a chance.

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ByGourou 10 points 2 years ago

Yes, especially if you can be banned for your little brother borrowing your game and swearing.

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ReakDuck 5 points 2 years ago

Well, it never changed for years

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