When you join a Steam Family, you automatically gain access to the shareable games that your family members own and they will also be able to access the shareable titles in your library. The next time you log in to Steam, this new ‘family library’ will appear in the left column as a subsection of your games list. You maintain ownership of your current titles and when you purchase a new game it will still show up in your collection.
Best of all, when you are playing a game from your family library, you will create your own saved games, earn your own Steam achievements, have access to workshop files and more.
Family Sharing enables you to play games from other family members’ libraries, even if they are online playing another game. If your family library has multiple copies of a game, multiple members of the family can play that game at the same time. For a more detailed look at how Family Sharing works, see the FAQ below.
Also adds parental controls for children’s accounts. Parental controls let you:
- 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
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/11954402
I’m curious how aggressive it will be at limiting families who live in different houses from sharing games.
The article specifically states that it is meant for “same household” families. But will it actively prevent that?
I don’t think so, at least not yet. They might try to prevent it later if it starts getting widely abused.
Narrator: “It did get widely abused.”
Right lol the first think I thought of was now my friends can just split the cost of any single player game and just take turns playing it
Time to install tailscale.