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Steam :: Introducing Steam Families (steamcommunity.com)

submitted 9 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] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

He's already said that he'd sink the company before he'd sell it. I believe him... it's not like he's not already rolling in money. What else do you offer him?

Edit: sink in this context being releasing all the drm.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The man's not gonna live forever, ownership changing is a matter of time, not raw money. And I dread that time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Well trashing steam wont fix that issue, thats an issue with all Steams competition being garbage

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

The other part of the question remains however, what happens when leadership changes, even supposing no sale of the company?