steam Introducing Steam Families 2.0

HowToIT · March 18

"Steam Families is a collection of new and existing family-related features. It replaces both Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View, giving you a single location to manage which games your family can access and when they can play."

This looks to be a unified steam sharing and family in the steam beta channels right now.
New features include:

Parental controls
- Limits on games (maybe rating or saying only these games can be played)
- Restricted access to the store, friends, and steam community
- play time limits and time of day restrictions
- playtime reports
- approve or deny request (additional playtime, feature access, temporary or permanent)
- recover the children account if the password is lost.
- child purchase request
send family request
- instead of having to sign in on that system to share, you can request the user be added from the family management dashboard
If a family member is banned playing your game, you and the game player will be banned, but family members that were not the one cheating or the game owner will not be effected.
family members games can be played offline as long as the game has family sharing support
by setting up steam, family accounts will be auto-recommended to join your family (the accounts that were signed in to share games with)
family management
- adults can kick out family members
- kids cannot leave unless an adult removes them
- if an adult leaves, a 1-year timer is started before they can join another family member

This is such a great new update to already great features. This is why steam is king and companies like EA and Ubisoft need to take a good hard look at their products and either step up or let steam take over. Family management has been a hassle for us and this is just such a quality of life update that is just a good job Valve moment.

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