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