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Valve introduces Steam Families
Posted on 3/19/24 at 8:14 am
Posted on 3/19/24 at 8:14 am
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Steam, the popular gaming platform, has just unveiled a new feature called Steam Families, now available in the Steam Beta Client. This large collection of family-centric features replaces both Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View, consolidating all family-related functionalities into one convenient location.
Users can create a Steam Family and invite up to five family members to join. The only requirement is to ‘adopt’ family members from the same country; otherwise this will not work. You can easily manage the family using Steam Client, mobile devices, or a Steam website.
Similarly to what we had in Family Sharing, the Steam Family comes with benefits of allowing members to share games with each other. The most significant change is that the owner of the game can just borrow one of the titles to a family member, which does not lock the owner from his library entirely. Previously, if one of the games was accessed, it locked the whole account until the family member stopped using the shared game.
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Game by game sharing and not limited to a single physical household. If it stays like this in full release, this is big deal.
With that said, there are two major caveats I see to keep in mind:
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Steam Families are intended to contain your immediate family. As major life events can change who lives in your household, it is understandable that some day you may need to join a new Steam Family. 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.
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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.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 8:38 am to Joshjrn
With 3 of us on steam in the house, this could be significant. However, I have a little modder in the house that has been given a timeout in Gorilla Tag for modding. I'll have to keep an eye on that one.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 9:54 am to SaintEB
While I haven’t played around with it, at least by my reading, it would only affect you if they were playing your copy of a given game. So as long as they are on their own copy, it should be fine. And if you set it up as a child’s account, I assume you can block certain games, but you’d have to play with that.
Posted on 9/12/24 at 9:31 am to Joshjrn
I'm pleasantly surprised with how few opt outs there currently appears to be. In my library, it looks primarily like EA and Ubisoft:
Posted on 9/12/24 at 11:56 am to Joshjrn
Beta had issues with two people playing at the same time, so I'll run an update today and see if that's been addressed
Posted on 9/12/24 at 11:59 am to GrammarKnotsi
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Beta had issues with two people playing at the same time, so I'll run an update today and see if that's been addressed
Rephrase the bug?
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