Steam :: Steam News :: Introducing Steam Families
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Hello! We are excited to announce Steam Families, available today in the Steam Beta Client. 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. Create a Steam Family To get started, you can create a Steam Family and then invite up to 5 family members.

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
  • Wes_DevEnglish
    320·
    7 months ago

    To be fair, a lot of monopolies are great in the beginning. It’s the inevitable power-tripping downslide that sucks.

    I still love Steam and Valve though.

    • noyouEnglish
      320·
      7 months ago

      The only reason this hasnt happened with valve is because it’s a private company. Publically traded companies are the cancer of ou society tbh

      • Wes_DevEnglish
        230·
        7 months ago

        Not disagreeing, but I think the point is that no single person or company should be in a position of that much power. All it takes is for one thing to go wrong, one law to change, or one financial scare to happen, and BOOM. Suddenly this great monopoly is doing things people hate and there’s no alternative.

      • PatchesEnglish
        100·
        7 months ago

        Well and GaBeN is still alive.

        He need to find a successor before his time

        • BuddahrifficEnglish
          30·
          7 months ago

          From what I’ve heard, his son is cool, so we might get two generations of awesome steam.

      • JojoEnglish
        60·
        7 months ago

        Laughs in Rockefeller and standard oil

        Steam is a private company and being run by a decent human. Didn’t have to be both.