Steam News - Steam Families is here - Steam News
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Hello! We are excited to announce Steam Families is now available for all users. Steam Families is a collection of new and existing family-related features. It replaces both Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View, giving you a single location to manage which games your family can access and when they can play. Create a Steam Family To get started, you can create a Steam Family and then invite up to 5 family members.

This was previously available as a opt in beta, but is now available for everyone.

  • Linuturk@lemmy.world
    14·
    2 months ago

    I can’t figure out how to create accounts for my kids. They are under 13 and there’s a checkbox saying people under 13 can’t create an account.

    • warm@kbin.earth
      12·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, maybe they should have some sort of ‘young child’ accounts for children under 13, that are required to be in a family with more restrictions on store access and such.

      • cryptiod137@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        2 months ago

        I there are some regulatory hurdles as well, like data collection and ratings board stuff. It would probably take some work to implement those.

      • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
        3·
        2 months ago

        Thanks to COPPA, American kids under 13 actually have very good protections online. To the point companies like Google and Valve will forego profits so they don’t have to comply.

    • Grass@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      2 months ago

      IIRC I’m 5 years older on steam than reality because of this. From my family’s first computer onward, I am the parental controls.