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Steam :: Introducing Steam Families (steamcommunity.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 158 points 7 months ago (84 children)

Its shit like this why I want to smack the "B-BUT STEAMS MONOPOLY" types who claim Steam does nothing with its 30%. Steam is one of the only companies out their in our late stage capitalist society that actually does things for its customer base without being forced to. We have digital refunds, completely remappable controllers, a linux operating system and portable computer that functions as a console when you dont want to use it as a computer, the only DRM in the world that doesnt actively suck, built in mod database/support, VR, official early access marketplace support (I know it has its issues), user game reviews with multiple sorting options, and thats everything I can currently think of. Steam is not only the only company I dont actively hate (Ok, I kind of like Costco too), vut I actually quite like Steam as a company.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What happens when the leadership or ownership changes hands?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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?"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

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

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