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Crotaro@beehaw.org 1 week ago
A pretty good change for how I use Family Sharing. The only detriments seem to be the issue of the game owner being banned for violations of annoy family members and the 1 year Cookstown cooldown between leaving and joining a family. Both should be manageable issues, though, if you’re at the point of trusting someone enough to log into their machine with your credentials.
It’s one year cooldown after joining a family share. I.e. if you leave half a year after joining, you have to wait another half a year to join another family share.
Adults can leave a family at any time, however, they will need to wait 1 year from when they joined the previous family to create or join a new family.
Honestly, I think it’s the best solution to also ban the owner.
This new system does not involve logging in to another machine with credentials. You send an invite, they accept.
Mhmm, I just noticed it yesterday when I first tried using it. But it doesn’t seem all good, because apparently it only works (without any workarounds) if you are on the same network. My sister, who lives in the same country but 400 km away, couldn’t join upon invitation :c
Malix@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Both seem reasonable. The banning is (AFAIK) mostly to prevent cheaters from making made-up familymember steam -accounts, and cheating in games as them. Once one made-up family member is banned, make another.
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 1 week ago
The best option would be a checkbox that would exclude the sharing of VAC games
Crotaro@beehaw.org 1 week ago
I could be mistaken but I think I read something about being able to choose which games a child member can see and play? If your adult sis is prone to getting banned, just invite her as child, if the system works like that. Sure, the terms “adult” and “child” are more intuitive for regular people, but in essence it’s just “admin/mod” and “member”, no?
Crotaro@beehaw.org 1 week ago
You’re right. And sure, it’s gonna suck for the twelve legitimate people who lose their access because their sibling is a dickwad, but that’s an okay tradeoff if it prevents a sudden surge of cheats.
Vodulas@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Not sure if I am reading this wrong, but I think it is just the one that did the cheating and game owner that get banned
Emphasis mine