"Enhanced Steam Family Sharing: Shared Libraries, Parental Controls, and Cheating Consequences"

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Valve has announced an overhaul to its Steam Family Sharing feature, combining it with the Family View parental control system into a new package called Steam Families. The update allows family members to play different games simultaneously, provides individual saves and achievements, and introduces new parental controls for monitoring and purchasing games for children. However, there are restrictions, including a one-year cooldown for leaving or joining a family group, and a policy that if one family member gets banned for cheating, all members sharing the account will also be banned.
- Valve is improving how Steam Family Sharing works—but if your brother gets banned for cheating, so do you PC Gamer
- Steam Families opens up game libraries for sharing, with a few caveats Ars Technica
- Valve Introduces New Steam Family Game Sharing Program Game Informer
- Steam Families brings shared libraries and parental controls together Polygon
- Steam Families Beta Introduces Parental Controls, Game Sharing, and Getting Banned If Your Siblings Cheat IGN
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