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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It is. My vac ban is currently 4990 days old. Thanks son!

TIL to make my future children their own steam accounts

And buy them their own copies of online games.

Instead of the sax talk, I'm going to sit them down to chat about how cheating in video games is bad m'kay

Parents, talk to your kids about saxophones. That, and cheating on video games, are the most important subjects to cover.