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Steam :: Introducing Steam Families (steamcommunity.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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Valve announced a replacement feature for both Family Sharing and Family View. Currently in beta.

Features:

up to 5 members
game sharing
parental controls
- allow access to appropriate games
- restrict access to the Steam Store, Community or Friends Chat
- set playtime limits (hourly/daily)
- view playtime reports
- approve or deny requests from child accounts for additional playtime or feature access (temporary or permanent)
- recover a child's account if they lost their password
child purchase requests

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[-] lemmydripzdotz456@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

This is good

and

I wish it was easier to manage multiple steam account on a single computer because some of us have more family than devices

[-] lud@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

There is actually a way to quickly switch accounts now.

[-] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

It seems easier these days than it was back in the old times. Four of us in the family hopping around on 2 desktops and 2 old laptops. Pretty fluid! Not sure if you're experiencing something specific?

I was also using the heck out of the 'local fire share' feature in steam, i only had to download Ark survival evolved (128gb!)1 time!

[-] lemmydripzdotz456@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

What I would really like is to be able sign on to my windows account and then log into steam as me without typing in another password BUT the kids can't log into steam and then switch to my account because they don't have my password and they're not signed in to Windows as me.

[-] pycorax@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

These changes are great although on a slightly unrelated note. I can sort of understand why they don't allow you to do it but it'd be nice if I could play something on my Deck while playing something on my PC too. Sometimes I'm just idling waiting for friends in a game and want to pass the time. I know you can just switch off Wi-Fi in the Deck to do that but it is still mildly annoying.