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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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[-] RisingSwell@lemmy.world 53 points 3 months ago

Digital refunds isn't them being good, it's them getting sued by Australia.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 43 points 3 months ago

They could have made it an AU only feature, though, and didn't, to their credit.

[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

Because I'm pretty sure EU was next in line to slap them in the face for not offering refunds.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago

and every other company would wait for every country to threaten them before enabling it there, because that's 5 more months of extra profit!

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

I think it’s also just generally a good thing for them. I’m way more hesitant to buy stuff from humble and fanatical because I can’t return stuff, so I rather pay a bit more to get it through steam.

[-] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

I too hate everything that's not completely perfect in every way

[-] RisingSwell@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Ah yes, my comment openly states I hate steam because it isn't perfect. It's definitely written in there.

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world -4 points 3 months ago

And they repeatedly ignored my requests for games which didn't work, as it was three weeks or thereabouts.

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Ehh... Idk if that's really on them. You can get around the playtime restriction by just playing offline, so there has to be an alternative restriction that doesn't have that same vulnerability.

Three weeks is more than enough time to figure out something you own doesn't even work.

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I didn't have the time to play it, tried to play it once and it didn't work. I have a life and it often gets in the way, especially if I buy something on sale with the intention to play it later.

I'm honestly surprised you are defending it; if my car, bought new, stopped working through my continued usage in its first year, it would be repaired for free. A game which I booted up once after three weeks wouldn't work... And I get told "no". Not really acceptable. 30% fee for zero accountability and my money lost.

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

A car isn't at max $70 lmfao, you're comparing completely different worlds of cost. Also depending on where you buy said car, that isn't the case lol, you buy a lemon... Get fucked it's capitalism baby.

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

Or my phone, or my TV, or my (insert device here).

Faulty goods are faulty goods.

Err no. Grow up.

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

The problem is that without that rule, you can just buy a game, go offline and play the entire game, then return it. You could essentially play any game you wanted to for free

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

That already happens; I've got a few thousand games on Steam so I'm not taking the piss when I want to refund a faulty game. My total is probably five or ten refunds in the life of my account (almost 20 years).