Comment on Introducing Steam Families

AliasWyvernspur@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s probably to avoid someone buying a game, and then cheating on a child account to avoid bans.

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  • LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yeah necessary rule fsure

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• JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s actually nothing new, it’s been like that with family sharing for ages. If the family share account gets banned, the owner of the game gets banned as well so that they can’t keep making alt accounts to bypass the ban. Others in your family not being impacted by the ban would actually be an improvement - it used to be that if the owner is banned, anyone family sharing the game would be as well.

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  • AliasWyvernspur@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I understand why, and it makes sense to me. But I wouldn’t want to take that chance.

    It’s not so much that I know a family member would knowingly cheat, but who knows if a friend might convince them to try a mod or something, and not know it could potentially get them banned, ya know?

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    • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I get you.
      Here’s hoping this new thing allows them to make it work better eventually, as the current system is a result of the older family share system - before the owner banning was implemented plenty of games just disabled family sharing entirely as a workaround for ban evasion.

      Right now I believe the only workaround would be to use the parental controls to not share those games you care about enough.

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      • AliasWyvernspur@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Being able to gift games, parental controls, etc. Plenty of other reasons to set this up. As long as we’d be able to just not share games in case this happened, I’d be cool with that.

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• NewNewAccount@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is there a non-zero chance you’d add a potential cheater to your Steam family?

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  • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I could imagine someone’s kid doing it

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    • lud@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Teach your children to not cheat.

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      • Aasikki@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        As a former child, yeah, but it’s not always that easy.

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• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not for me.

  My kiddo is kinda an butthead and I know he will absolutely figure out how to get banned.

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• dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you have a Steam family with 4 members each owning a copy of a game, and the 5th member that doesn’t gets banned. Which of the 4 accounts gets banned?

  Since the game copies are “pooled” in the family, you are not sharing from anyone in particular, you have all games in the family available. So who gets banned?

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