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

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Kissaki@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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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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[–] Crotaro@beehaw.org 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 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.

[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 month ago (2 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.

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Crotaro@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month 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 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month 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

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 month 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 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Crotaro@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month 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@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

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