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Steam :: Introducing Steam Families (steamcommunity.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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
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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Because I'm pretty sure EU was next in line to slap them in the face for not offering refunds.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

and every other company would wait for every country to threaten them before enabling it there, because that's 5 more months of extra profit!