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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] 58 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Optimist me: Steam looking into curating the next generation of customers.

Pessimist me: child protection laws made it too much of a headache for Steam to monetize the kids.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Both!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Also, 2 weeks ago Last Epoch disabled family account sharing because it was being abused for real money trading:

We have unfortunately had to disable family sharing on Steam for Last Epoch.

This feature enabled the use of significant RMT (Real Money Trading) and Botting options, and was removing our ability to ban/remove accounts, faster than they could share them with their entire networks.

I don't think any one specific thing is responsible for this change, but the 5 account limit seems like it would certainily be a welcome change for the Last Epoch devs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The 5 account limit was always there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

But you could freely rotate in new accounts. Now you have to wait a year.