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Steam Families Launched
[Sep 11, 2024, 7:37 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

Valve announces that the Steam Families feature is out of beta, and has officially launched for all users. This allows you to invite up to five family members into a group to share your game library. Each gets their own saves and achievements, and you can set up age restrictions so the kids don't get in over their heads. Here's the intro video and there's a FAQ to fill in all the details. Here's more:

When you join a Steam Family, you automatically gain access to the shareable games that your family members own and they will also be able to access the shareable titles in your library. The next time you log in to Steam, this new 'family library' will appear in the left column as a subsection of your games list. You maintain ownership of your current titles and when you purchase a new game it will still show up in your collection.

Best of all, when you are playing a game from your family library, you will create your own saved games, earn your own Steam achievements, have access to workshop files and more.

Family Sharing enables you to play games from other family members' libraries, even if they are online playing another game. If your family library has multiple copies of a game, multiple members of the family can play that game at the same time. For a more detailed look at how Family Sharing works, see the FAQ below.

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Re: Blood is thicker than...
Sep 11, 2024, 23:22

Sepharo

Re: Blood is thicker than... Sep 11, 2024, 23:22

Sep 11, 2024, 23:22

Sepharo

Jim wrote on Sep 11, 2024, 23:13:
RedEye9 wrote on Sep 11, 2024, 20:44:
What happens if my brother gets banned for cheating while playing my game?
If a family member gets banned for cheating while playing your copy of a game, you (the game owner) will also be banned in that game. Other family members are not impacted.
this quote does not make sense. The latter statement implies that other family members sharing the same game are not affected. I don't think that is true since that would be an exploit.

Whether it can be exploited or not seems to hinge on whether the remaining unbanned family members can still share the owner's game purchase or not.
But it doesn't go into that specifically. Just that the remaining unoffending family members won't have their own Steam accounts banned from the game.
If they have their own copy they should be able to continue to play.
I think that it makes sense regardless of whether it's exploitable or not though.
If anything, the intention seems to be to close an exploit rather than open a new one... the offender and the owner of the game are banned.