Steam :: Steam News :: Introducing Steam Families
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Hello! We are excited to announce Steam Families, available today in the Steam Beta Client. Steam Families is a collection of new and existing family-related features. It replaces both Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View, giving you a single location to manage which games your family can access and when they can play. Create a Steam Family To get started, you can create a Steam Family and then invite up to 5 family members.

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
  • Saik0English
    11•4 months ago

    He’s already said that he’d sink the company before he’d sell it. I believe him… it’s not like he’s not already rolling in money. What else do you offer him?

    Edit: sink in this context being releasing all the drm.

    • @sdcSpade@lemmy.zipEnglish
      20•4 months ago

      The man’s not gonna live forever, ownership changing is a matter of time, not raw money. And I dread that time.

      • @Kedly@lemm.eeEnglish
        1•4 months ago

        Well trashing steam wont fix that issue, thats an issue with all Steams competition being garbage

    • @ALostInquirer@lemm.eeEnglish
      4•4 months ago

      The other part of the question remains however, what happens when leadership changes, even supposing no sale of the company?