Steam :: Introducing Steam Families
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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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This is pretty fantastic. I have two kids that I share with, and when one plays any game from my library currently, my entire library gets locked out from the other kid. Changing this to a game by game basis makes so much more sense.
My account has been locked up because my daughter has three separate BG3 games going with friends. Last week my son said we need to put a time limit on her because nobody else can play on Steam.
Yeah I’m excited. My wife and I don’t buy two copies of games, so it’s been hard to play games the other has
And from you! Glad this has finally been amended.
Omg I was just complaining about this in another thread. I wish it hadn't taken them so long, but I'm stoked it's happening!
Doesn't the offline mode solve this?
Achievements don't track in offline mode, so not a perfect solution.
Only the parent can play while being online. Their two kids must be logged in.