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Introducing Steam Families (steamcommunity.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When you join a Steam Family, you automatically gain access to the shareable games that your family members own and they will also be able to access the shareable titles in your library. The next time you log in to Steam, this new 'family library' will appear in the left column as a subsection of your games list. You maintain ownership of your current titles and when you purchase a new game it will still show up in your collection.

Best of all, when you are playing a game from your family library, you will create your own saved games, earn your own Steam achievements, have access to workshop files and more.

Family Sharing enables you to play games from other family members' libraries, even if they are online playing another game. If your family library has multiple copies of a game, multiple members of the family can play that game at the same time. For a more detailed look at how Family Sharing works, see the FAQ below.

Also adds parental controls for children's accounts. Parental controls let you:

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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/11954402

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

You could before, but any games with steam DRM (which is most of them) would lock your library if your spouse was using it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It would not lock your library if someone was playing one of your games. You could start any game in your library and the family member would be given a 15 minute period to wrap up their session before being booted. It had nothing to do with steam drm either.

Source: I actually used family sharing a few times.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

The steam DRM does matter, games that don't have it could be played without it licking the library. I didn't know that they gave you a full 15 min though, I just knew my son would complain about being unable to play unless I was in something DRM free like Caves of Qud.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

*Most people could. My library has some kind of fucked issue. Had to reach out to steam support who were absolutely useless.