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Steam :: Introducing Steam Families (steamcommunity.com)

submitted 9 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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[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

The problem is that without that rule, you can just buy a game, go offline and play the entire game, then return it. You could essentially play any game you wanted to for free

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago

That already happens; I've got a few thousand games on Steam so I'm not taking the piss when I want to refund a faulty game. My total is probably five or ten refunds in the life of my account (almost 20 years).