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Introducing Steam Families (steamcommunity.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 121 points 5 months ago (13 children)

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

This is huge! Previously it was annoying to share games become if someone was playing my game and I opened something up they would be kicked out.

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

This sucks.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It does but it also makes sense. This way people can’t have “family” member alt accounts for cheating with the primary as a parachute.

But… I’d like to see something like “if a family member gets banned then their access to sharing is blocked and you will get a temp ban”

This way I can rain down hell on whoever screwed up and the penalty for trusting them isn’t permanent

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

I'm pretty sure this was already the case in some games before, depending on the netcode of the game.

The old FAQ said:

What if a borrower is caught cheating or committing fraud while playing my shared games? Your Family Sharing privileges may be revoked and your account may also be VAC banned if a borrower cheats or commits fraud. In addition, not all VAC protected games are shareable. We recommend you only authorize familiar Steam Accounts and familiar computers you know to be secure. And as always, never give your password to anyone.

If it's a game with VAC it probably always worked as described above, but for example: People in Fall Guys did use this trick to avoid getting banned for cheating until they turned off Family Share for Fall Guys shortly after release.

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