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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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[-] Retrograde@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

TIL to make my future children their own steam accounts

[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

And buy them their own copies of online games.

[-] Retrograde@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Instead of the sax talk, I'm going to sit them down to chat about how cheating in video games is bad m'kay

[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

Parents, talk to your kids about saxophones. That, and cheating on video games, are the most important subjects to cover.

[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
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