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rhacer ,

I have three sons, they live in the West Coast, I live in the Midwest. I can’t join a family with them. That’s a bummer.

Galapagon ,

Why can’t you?

Toribor ,
@Toribor@corndog.social avatar

Why not? My Steam Family is just a group of friends spread out all across the country. Geographic distance shouldn’t be an issue.

lunarul ,

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

Hm… so if you don’t trust your kids to not do dumb things in games you also play then don’t share them

taiyang ,

I mean, it’s been here for beta years and yes, it is absolutely fantastic. The one year penalty keeps me from handing it out like candy to extended family and friends (plus we all have that cousin who can’t be trusted) while I can let my wife and kids play games on my account without them kicking me out of mine.

The parental controls are good too, although I’m not using them yet since my kids are too young to really pick their games from the library themselves.

iAmTheTot ,

Oh very nice! My partner and I share libraries and it was really clunky the way it worked before.

Undearius ,
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Family Sharing enables you to play games from other family members’ libraries, even if they are online playing another game.

This is a great improvement to this feature. It’s refreshing when these type of convenience features are considered and implemented.

krolden ,
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I wish they made all games require sharing

jqubed ,
@jqubed@lemmy.world avatar

This is fantastic! I was just trying to set up my kid on a computer and the old way was seeming too clunky and slow, and she wanted to do something else so we never finished it.

inlandempire ,
@inlandempire@jlai.lu avatar

Finally! Now I can switch back to the “normal” Steam Beta build for other experimental features, Steam Family was on a separate beta build which didn’t allow me to try other things…

Toribor , (edited )
@Toribor@corndog.social avatar

The family beta had weird issues on Linux (Gnome/Wayland) until recently too so I’m glad to see this getting a full release.

_spiffy ,
@_spiffy@lemmy.ca avatar

This is a great feature! I can finally have both my kids play whatever game they want at the same time.

MrGerrit ,

Very handy. Been using it with my daughter and loves the amount of games she can choose from.

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