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Steam :: Introducing Steam Families (steamcommunity.com)

submitted 8 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] 2 points 8 months ago

What I would really like is to be able sign on to my windows account and then log into steam as me without typing in another password BUT the kids can't log into steam and then switch to my account because they don't have my password and they're not signed in to Windows as me.