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Introducing Steam Families (steamcommunity.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] DoctorRoxxo 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So people don’t have 5 accounts they can cheat under for a single game purchase.

[–] Eldritch 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Do it on a 3 strikes basis. They don't ban an account in a single offense. And therefore shouldn't do that to account groups either. It's not perfect. But it's much more forgiving and fair.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

you're not getting banned from steam, you're generally getting banned from participating in anti cheat secured lobbies of a single game or a group of games.

single player experience is generally not affected.

having a 3 strike system before getting banned from multiplayer just means it's 66% cheaper for a cheater to get a new copy of the game.

this is also not new and has been the case for the current family sharing system as well.

[–] Carighan 1 points 7 months ago

That's how most bans already work, so what's the problem? You got to be quite egregious for Steam to ban you outright.