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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] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You say this like the competition hasnt already failed at the get go. Valve has the market share it has because no one else is offering anything better. Itch and GoG offer some things Valve doesnt, and because of that I wont say ALL of Valves competition is shit, but MOST of the competition STARTED off as your worst fear for what Valve MIGHT become

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You are doing exactly what I said.

Valve is good, but they have shit features and I'm not sure why you're defending them (but maybe you're just a troll/ignoring my points?).

I don't care about the competition - it's like saying a person is molesting a child but hey, those two over there are molesting multiple children and murdering them! So they're worse!

Marketshare is also a poor predictor as it's often the first person to market as opposed to what's best.

Think of it another way - Google has the most marketshare of search. Is it the best and is it doing only good things? If you say yes to both then I can't help you further.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Just like you dont care about the competition, I dont care about CS:Go. I havent really defended anything they've done with CS:go. Right from the start I've focussed on two arguements, Steam's (not a) monopoly, and its 30% cut

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can't just ignore the arguments that don't fit your world view/argument. In that scenario I could just look at the negatives of Steam and the positives of Epic and say that the Epic Store is better than Steam because I ignore all the stuff that doesn't fit my argument.

It's not just Cs go but multiple games like Dota Etc. They have specifically built a whole market and ecosystem to convince you to buy stuff and gamble effectively.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

At no point did I say that steam is a perfect clean organization. I was calling out two very specific and common complaints against Steam, that is that its a monopoly and that it doesnt deserve its 30% cut. Your grievance against them is valid and I dont really have much to argue against it. Your fight is not mine personally, but I have no qualms against it