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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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[-] 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.