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
  • ALostInquirerEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    What happens when the leadership or ownership changes hands?

    • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
      121·
      3 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·
        3 months ago

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

        • KedlyEnglish
          21·
          3 months ago

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

      • ALostInquirerEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

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

    • KedlyEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      We go back to piracy. Easy enough

      Edit: Wait. Do you guys think we use Steam because we HAVE to? GoG exists bros, we’re using Steam because we prefer it. If Steam goes to shit we’ll just stop using it

      • ALostInquirerEnglish
        32·
        3 months ago

        Do you guys think we use Steam because we HAVE to? GoG exists bros, we’re using Steam because we prefer it.

        Do you think many are aware of options like GOG? Every other time I’ve seen it mentioned/suggested, it’s often accompanied by, “What’s GOG?”

        • KedlyEnglish
          11·
          3 months ago

          Uh yes I do. Itch and GoG are pretty well known, specifically because they are competent competitors to Steam