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Introducing Steam Families (steamcommunity.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

On the other hand, Rust had a cheater issue at some point because they only checked the account ID when banning in EAC. Cheaters leveraged this by purchasing the game in a master account, and using secondary accounts tied with Steam Family Sharing to play.

Secondary account banned? No problem. Log out, share with another account, rinse and repeat. From what I can see they disabled Family sharing altogether.