Steam Families puts game sharing and parental controls in one place
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Steam recently introduced 'Steam Families', a feature that allows sharing games, approving purchases, and restricting access to minors. Although the platform already had Family Mode, the features were limited. Now,
Steam streamlines its family sharing features
Image: The Verge Today, Steam launched Steam Families, an overhaul of its family sharing system. The new system gets rid of limits on how many people can play games from one library, makes buying games for your kids easier, and adds new parental controls and sharing options. Before, you needed to use two different systems — Family Sharing and Family View — if you wanted to share your library but limit which games your kids could play. Also und…
As of September 2013, a family-sharing library feature was available on Steam. One owner could loan their purchased games to up to five other people. However, such a shared library could only be active in one place at the same time. If you're with someone
Steam is testing a new feature called Steam Families in the Steam Beta Client. This allows users to share their game library with a small group of people. Steam Families replaces the current Family Sharing and Family View.
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