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.
  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Family Sharing is a feature that developers may opt their games out of for technical or other reasons at any time.

    Ubisoft, EA, and Rockstar running to opt out every one of their games.

    Kudos to Valve, but for us remember as a general rule that if they have their own launcher, they have no interest in sharing.

  • ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io
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    1 year ago

    A bunch of people are going to become related all of a sudden really quick!

    Honestly though, my partner and I already use the family sharing extensively, so I hope this is an improvement. It is kind of tedious right now that you have to physically log in to the other person’s machine to be able to add them to your family sharing plan, so any kind of improvement on that front is welcome.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yup, hopefully this makes that smoother.

      We have three accounts linked: mine, SO, kids (they share one). I occasionally gift games to my SO and kids accounts, and each time I need to login to their accounts to accept/add the gift key or whatever. I go through this nonsense so my kids, SO, and I can play different games at the same time, but the kids can still only play one at a time (hasn’t been a problem so far).

      I have three kids and haven’t made individual accounts because it’s annoying enough as it is to manage three, but if this makes it easier, I’ll probably get them their own accounts.

      • warmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I already tried it, apply ASAP for the Family Beta. Now both of my kids can simultaneously use my library as long as they play a different game. Before, only one of my kids was allowed to borrow from my library, the rest of it was locked down. Amazing update.

  • lady_maria@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Does anyone know if the list of games that are considered "sharable " has changed in any way? I didn’t even know that some games can’t be shared.

  • warmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is amazing! And a long-overdue change. Now both of my kids can simultaneously use my library as long as they play a different game. Before, only one of my kids was allowed to borrow from my library, the rest of it was locked down.