Article 6KEN8 Steam streamlines its family sharing features

Steam streamlines its family sharing features

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Wes Davis
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Today, Steam launched Steam Families, an overhaul of its family sharing system. The new system gets rid of limits on how many people can play games from one library, makes buying games for your kids easier, and adds new parental controls and sharing options.

Before, you needed to use two different systems - Family Sharing and Family View - if you wanted to share your library but limit which games your kids could play. Also under the old approach, only one person at a time could play a game from another's library. Now - to use Steam's example - if you're playing your copy of Portal 2 and someone else wants to play Half-Life from your library, that's fine. They'll only be booted if you start up Portal 2 while they're playing it from your...

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