Steam Families is here

If a family member gets banned for cheating while playing your copy of a game, you (the game owner) will also be banned in that game

Hm.. so if you don't trust your kids to not do dumb things in games you also play then don't share them

I know that this is supposed to be a family, but it’s a surprised dog face to me.

You can only add family members in the same steam store region.

This bit is a bit fucked up:

What happens if my brother gets banned for cheating while playing my game?

If a family member gets banned for cheating while playing your copy of a game, you (the game owner) will also be banned in that game. Other family members are not impacted.

This is a lot easier to manage than the old library sharing where I was always going between machines, changing accounts and sharing libraries with people with multiple desktop logins on multiple machines. Changed the family over today. I am concerned this new system will get abused by groups of independent adults like Netflix was and publishers will withdraw games or prices will increase. Just pirate please and don't ruin a good thing because for parents with dependent kids at home the cost of living is rough.

Being able to remotely manage parental controls from my login for younger kids is also awesome. It feels like it was made by an actual parent instead of a single 20 something tech bro like some other parental control systems. It is fucking abysmal that so many streaming apps make it hard to find age appropriate content or set sensible access controls. Like seriously Crunchyroll - you are owned by a fucking filthy rich media megacorp Sony and you cant provide search by age, content ratings or helpful labeling.

So how do I create a Steam Family? I can't see an option to do so anywhere but I am most likely just missing it... or it hasn't been rolled out to the UK yet

edit: found it! For anyone else who is lost like me, go to the top right and click on your use name and then Account Details. From there, Family Management is on the left and it's obvious

Between my wife’s enormous Steam library and Whisky/Crossover on my M2 MacBook, I’ve been playing more games than ever since the beta of this popped up. It’s actually quite impressive how many games just work - albeit with some compromises in places.

I mean, it's been here for beta years and yes, it is absolutely fantastic. The one year penalty keeps me from handing it out like candy to extended family and friends (plus we all have that cousin who can't be trusted) while I can let my wife and kids play games on my account without them kicking me out of mine.

The parental controls are good too, although I'm not using them yet since my kids are too young to really pick their games from the library themselves.

Been using this in Beta for a few months now. Very cool

I have three sons, they live in the West Coast, I live in the Midwest. I can't join a family with them. That's a bummer.

Soon they will need a Family Crypt to archive the games of dead generations

Rip my shared library with gf living in NO and me in NL :(

What is this. Because I'm pretty upset that the games I paid for can't be played on different pc's. My daughter wants to pay stardew valley while I'm online with family on satisfactory. I have to take the other pc and go into offline mode. This wasn't the solution. Even with adding members I didn't think I did it right. So does this fix it? Can my family member log into stardew online with her cousin while I'm on another lan game?

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Family Sharing enables you to play games from other family members' libraries, even if they are online playing another game.

This is a great improvement to this feature. It's refreshing when these type of convenience features are considered and implemented.

Very handy. Been using it with my daughter and loves the amount of games she can choose from.

This is a great feature! I can finally have both my kids play whatever game they want at the same time.

Finally! Now I can switch back to the "normal" Steam Beta build for other experimental features, Steam Family was on a separate beta build which didn't allow me to try other things...

This is fantastic! I was just trying to set up my kid on a computer and the old way was seeming too clunky and slow, and she wanted to do something else so we never finished it.

Oh very nice! My partner and I share libraries and it was really clunky the way it worked before.

I wish they made all games require sharing