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Steam :: Introducing Steam Families (steamcommunity.com)
submitted 9 months ago by Essence_of_Meh to c/games
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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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[–] TheBat 50 points 9 months ago (8 children)

BuT wHy iS eVeRyOnE RiDiNg sTeAm'S DiCK? ThEy aRe A mOnOpOlY!!11!!!

- Some fuckwits

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (5 children)

To be fair, a lot of monopolies are great in the beginning. It's the inevitable power-tripping downslide that sucks.

I still love Steam and Valve though.

[–] noyou 32 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The only reason this hasnt happened with valve is because it's a private company. Publically traded companies are the cancer of ou society tbh

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

Not disagreeing, but I think the point is that no single person or company should be in a position of that much power. All it takes is for one thing to go wrong, one law to change, or one financial scare to happen, and BOOM. Suddenly this great monopoly is doing things people hate and there's no alternative.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well and GaBeN is still alive.

He need to find a successor before his time

[–] Buddahriffic 3 points 9 months ago

From what I've heard, his son is cool, so we might get two generations of awesome steam.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Laughs in Rockefeller and standard oil

Steam is a private company and being run by a decent human. Didn't have to be both.

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