This was previously available as a opt in beta, but is now available for everyone.
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It’s fantastic tbh. Less convenient for people who just abuse family share with random people, but for actual families or close groups of long-term friends it’s glorious.
it’s absolutely fantastic, my friends and i joined a steam family and they finally have 0 excuses to not play the games i’ve been recommending them for year (and neither do i)
It’s great. We already set it up and worked without issues
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.
Use the time honored technique of lying on the birthdate form.
Jan 1st
scroll scroll 1956! perfect!
enter
I like to pick 1901, so it looks like a 123 year old is playing The Witcher 3.
Does this mean we can “opt out” of the families beta and just use the main client again?
No, Steam families is now out of beta and is the default for all users I think. I’m not sure how long you can keep using the existing family sharing, but I’m guessing at some point you’ll be forced to swap over.
I just checked the client and looks like it rolled everyone who was in family beta back to “No beta chosen”. That’s actually what I meant with that question, and I wasn’t clear enough.
To originally get the new family sharing to work, I needed to select the family sharing beta build, but it automatically seems to have put me back on the “normal build” since this feature rolled out.
