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Steam :: Introducing Steam Families (steamcommunity.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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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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[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 50 points 8 months ago

BuT wHy iS eVeRyOnE RiDiNg sTeAm'S DiCK? ThEy aRe A mOnOpOlY!!11!!!

- Some fuckwits

[-] Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml 32 points 8 months ago

To be fair, a lot of monopolies are great in the beginning. It's the inevitable power-tripping downslide that sucks.

I still love Steam and Valve though.

[-] noyou@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago

The only reason this hasnt happened with valve is because it's a private company. Publically traded companies are the cancer of ou society tbh

[-] Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml 23 points 8 months ago

Not disagreeing, but I think the point is that no single person or company should be in a position of that much power. All it takes is for one thing to go wrong, one law to change, or one financial scare to happen, and BOOM. Suddenly this great monopoly is doing things people hate and there's no alternative.

[-] Patches@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago

Well and GaBeN is still alive.

He need to find a successor before his time

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

From what I've heard, his son is cool, so we might get two generations of awesome steam.

[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

Laughs in Rockefeller and standard oil

Steam is a private company and being run by a decent human. Didn't have to be both.

[-] Schadrach 2 points 8 months ago

I suspect we'll be fine until Gabe dies. Then, it depends on who ends up with the company and what they do with it.

[-] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think people are more negative than positive about this change. The old system allowed for far more freedom at the cost of being more annoying to set up.
This change cracks down on anyone who used the old system in unintended ways, i.e. to share games with family members not living in the same household. For now that check only compares store region/country, but I wouldn't be surprised if they tighten the requirements further in the future.

It's also a negative compared to the old system if one of your (adult) family members throws a huge tantrum, allowing them to cause a lot more damage and inconvenience than before.

Edit: I just wanna mention, I am saying this as someone who is usually "RiDiNg sTeAm’S DiCK".