It should have been this from the start, the old method of having to share an entire library at a time seemd to be an obvious technical limitation rather than a good policy choice.
Steam Families Is Here
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
And that exclude long distance relationships and the case when one of the family members is studying abroad. And this is a realistic scenario not a hypothetical one.
I wouldn't really call a long-distance relationship or studying abroad the same household, so I don't think this is a good argument against the system.
I agree. Though children with split custody I wish was something that was considered a use case more often.
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#43I've been using the new Steam Families in beta for the past several months, and it's wonderful. This feature is why I was willing to buy a Steam Deck several months ago, and I've been very happy with it. Prior to that, I had been purchasing games on Steam as little as possible -- Epic Games Store, GoG, direct -- anything to avoid Steam, just because I was so frustrated with the old Steam Family Sharing setup and its…
Yeah, Steam is surprisingly pro-consumer in unexpected ways. Not like they don't have their closet skeletons but they present themselves as nicer than others companies in the videogame sector with their actions. I wonder if it is because ideology from the top or just a very robust good-reputation based company policy.
I remember in the early days the idea of not having physical copies and trusting Steam to continue to provide access to your content was quite a hard pill to swallow for a lot of people. It's somewhat ironic that while they paved the way, they have kept a good reputation while others that followed have abused this trust.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
And that exclude long distance relationships and the case when one of the family members is studying abroad. And this is a realistic scenario not a hypothetical one.
I wouldn't really call a long-distance relationship or studying abroad the same household, so I don't think this is a good argument against the system.
I think in this case they should focus more on explaining that this is for household family not for families in general.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wouldn't really call a long-distance relationship or studying abroad the same household, so I don't think this is a good argument against the system.
I think in this case they should focus more on explaining that this is for household family not for families in general.
That’s the case for every family feature ever though. Family is always short term for household. You can’t add your grandparents, cousins and uncles to your Spotify family either (if they don’t live in your household). And I don’t think anyone hearing about a family feature which allows sharing subscriptions expects otherwise.
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#46Can I prevent access to the game community art section which often has inappropriate content regardless of the games rating?
Settings -> Library -> Disable Community Content ? I don't know about locking access to the setting though.
...oh - that only prevents it being shown by default, there's still a button to load it.
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#47I love it, but I would rename it "Steam household" so that people stop confusing it with the term "extended family"
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#48That is great. Now they just need to add a easy way to alternate between different profiles on the same computer, because having to log-out and log-in every time you want to hand the controller to someone else in the family is a big hassle. I understand the now a days most people have their own computer, so the log-out/log-in is not a problem for most people; but some of us have a gaming desktop connected to the livi…
You could use the recently new change account feature where you open Steam and all your accounts appear in one window and you're already logged in to all of them and you just click on your profile icon and it opens that account and when you are ready to switch you click the drop-down box next to your username and select "Change Account" and after it closes, the window with the profile icons pops up again and you can select another account and you don't have to use a password each time. Make sure you tick the check box when you confirm the request to change the account. It makes it much easier to log in and out of different accounts.
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#49That is great. Now they just need to add a easy way to alternate between different profiles on the same computer, because having to log-out and log-in every time you want to hand the controller to someone else in the family is a big hassle. I understand the now a days most people have their own computer, so the log-out/log-in is not a problem for most people; but some of us have a gaming desktop connected to the livi…
You could use the recently new change account feature where you open Steam and all your accounts appear in one window and you're already logged in to all of them and you just click on your profile icon and it opens that account and when you are ready to switch you click the drop-down box next to your username and select "Change Account" and after it closes, the window with the profile icons pops up again and you can…
Does that work on a Steam Deck or on the “Big Screen” interface? I’d like to have that in Bazzite.
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#50That is great. Now they just need to add a easy way to alternate between different profiles on the same computer, because having to log-out and log-in every time you want to hand the controller to someone else in the family is a big hassle. I understand the now a days most people have their own computer, so the log-out/log-in is not a problem for most people; but some of us have a gaming desktop connected to the livi…
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