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Valve launches new Steam Families household game sharing tools


Valve has launched Steam Families, a streamlined, enhanced version of its existing household game sharing tools, and it…

Valve has launched Steam Families, a streamlined, enhanced version of its existing household game sharing tools, and it's available for testing now in beta form. The big caveat to all this is that games are only eligible for sharing if their developer hasn't chosen to opt out of the Steam Families scheme, but once that particular roadblock is cleared, the only other key restriction is that a single owned copy of a game can only be played by one person at any time. Steam Families also offers a new suit of parental control tools (accessible via the Steam Client, mobile device, or web browser) that enables members assigned as adults to monitor and manage game access to accounts registered as 'child accounts'.

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