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Steam :: Introducing Steam Families (steamcommunity.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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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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[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world -3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I didn't have the time to play it, tried to play it once and it didn't work. I have a life and it often gets in the way, especially if I buy something on sale with the intention to play it later.

I'm honestly surprised you are defending it; if my car, bought new, stopped working through my continued usage in its first year, it would be repaired for free. A game which I booted up once after three weeks wouldn't work... And I get told "no". Not really acceptable. 30% fee for zero accountability and my money lost.

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

A car isn't at max $70 lmfao, you're comparing completely different worlds of cost. Also depending on where you buy said car, that isn't the case lol, you buy a lemon... Get fucked it's capitalism baby.

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago

Or my phone, or my TV, or my (insert device here).

Faulty goods are faulty goods.

Err no. Grow up.

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

The problem is that without that rule, you can just buy a game, go offline and play the entire game, then return it. You could essentially play any game you wanted to for free

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago

That already happens; I've got a few thousand games on Steam so I'm not taking the piss when I want to refund a faulty game. My total is probably five or ten refunds in the life of my account (almost 20 years).