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Steam Families announced with parental controls, no more library locking https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/steam-families-announced-with-parental-controls-no-more-library-locking/

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Steam Families announced with parental controls, no more library locking

Valve has finally done it! They've overhauled Steam Family Sharing with the new Steam Families set of features now available in Beta and it fixes the most annoying issue with it.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Michael
Michael
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Great news! have been running into issues accessing the rest of my games while my son is playing #helldivers 😀
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This is great news. I feel like it's long over due so excited to see it come out.
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erstwhile
erstwhile
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oh.. so now, 3 years after I stopped having 'children' and now have young adults, this is ok, despite asking #Steam for it .. way back when. #SteamOnLinux :blobcat_rollingeyes: don't get me wrong Proton is Fine++ but it's not the only thing that needed developer time, well you know, beyond the mindless UX churn that fascinates them . .
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Miss Aemilia🎀
Miss Aemilia🎀
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The new changes are great, however they introduced a new term that completely screws it for me is that no longer can you have cross-region accounts in the same family. Which cuts me off from my family. Which worked before just fine.

I realise this is to prevent cross-region purchasing shenanigans, which Valve has constantly had so many bad-eggs ruin things with, but it really does make my LDR that much harder. Not cool 🙁

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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
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@ThatLuna I can easily see why they've done that though, there's not really all that many legit use cases for sharing a family across the world, it's supposed to be for a single household
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Luna :blobcatnauseated:​
Luna :blobcatnauseated:​
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I've seen a few people on steam forums already talk about abroad family etc, there's a lot of criticism of the updates on that. We'll see how this turns out

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