Steam :: Introducing Steam Families

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Steam :: Steam News :: 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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It's the only way I can see it working. Otherwise, you could just make infinite cheat accounts.

i mean theoretically they could just make it count as a strike, and if your account gets 3 strikes this way then your account is out as well

That's two cheating incidents too many.