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Steam Families is here - Steam News

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; after leaving can’t join another for a year

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.

haha

Trainguyrom ,

I’m curious if this will improve DLC mismatches. For example, I’ve purchased most of the map DLCs for Euro & American Truck Simulator, but my wife only purchased the base game.

By memory she previously could access all of the DLC via library sharing until she purchased it, then she could only access the base game and not the shared DLC. It’s probably cleanest to keep it that way since you never know how different games handle DLC being activated and de-activated within an existing save, but it would be nice to not punish someone for playing a game with DLC via library sharing then purchasing the game for themselves and buying DLC later

Crotaro , (edited )

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 ,
@Malix@sopuli.xyz avatar

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.

Chewy7324 ,

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.

discuss.tchncs.de/comment/13005467

Mirodir , (edited )

after leaving can’t join another for a year

Can you fix this? There was enough misinformation floating around about this already when this feature went into beta.

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.

it should say something like: “After joining, can’t join another for a year”

sirico ,
@sirico@feddit.uk avatar

Can I be kicked out of a Steam Family?

Yes, adult family members can kick any family member out of the Steam Family.

Just like real my real family

shapesandstuff ,

The difference is that you get to choose you steam family :')

Vodulas ,

You can choose your IRL family too, just takes a little more work to drop the shitty people.

Kyatto ,
@Kyatto@leminal.space avatar

Steam said my partner was ineligible, so no, steam gets final choice. 😢

It’s like the meme, is there someone you forgot to ask?

shapesandstuff ,

Hahaha that’s the abusive parent telling you you can’t see your partner anymore

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