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.
Edge case that almost affects nobody. Just make 1 family for all or create a second acc and put it in a second family. And if they add it it would probably be abused more than used for it’s intended use.
Lots of people are in multiple families. Probably even most people. Most people have two sets of cousins. And lots of people have a family of their parents and siblings and a family of their spouse and kids. I have steam library sharing with my partner and my partner has library sharing with its roommate, who has library sharing with other people. Is this new system gonna screw us?
There is a max amount of people and they have to be in the same country otherwise it doesn’t matter so far. But they are probably watching it for abuse.
What if you’re in multiple families (polycules)?
Edge case that almost affects nobody. Just make 1 family for all or create a second acc and put it in a second family. And if they add it it would probably be abused more than used for it’s intended use.
Lots of people are in multiple families. Probably even most people. Most people have two sets of cousins. And lots of people have a family of their parents and siblings and a family of their spouse and kids. I have steam library sharing with my partner and my partner has library sharing with its roommate, who has library sharing with other people. Is this new system gonna screw us?
There is a max amount of people and they have to be in the same country otherwise it doesn’t matter so far. But they are probably watching it for abuse.
They’re introducing new rules about being in the same country?? Fuck, this news gets worse and worse.
That is a bit fucked up for Europe, where it’s much more likely to be on the border of another country.