Over the last decade, digital platforms have brought a whole series of benefits when it comes to sharing content within the same family, so that it is no longer necessary to buy two times. Whether it’s films, series, music and of course video games. But Steamit is not clear why, took longer than necessary to offer support to a request that the players They’ve been asking for it for years.
Who more or less is part of a family and it is more and more normal that parents and children share a love for video games, so they walk around with the computer to see who is playing what and when, because that Steam It does not allow you to have a session open on two computers at the same time and the progression games are exclusive to the profile we are using. The arrival of the beta version with these familiar functions has therefore revolutionized half the planet.
Don’t buy games twice on Steam
This new family organization seeks not only to allow PC users from the same household to share purchases made by the main account (or any other), but also to allow this content to be enjoyed on several sites at the same time and separately each profile so you have your own information on progression, games and more basic configurations. But if you have any doubts about what you can handle, here we explain in detail what you can expect from this new feature. Precise:
- Families Steam They can contain up to six different members.
- There will be the possibility of enjoying the same game at the same time within the family and at the same time as another is on another computer.
- Parental controls are coming for profiles Steam marked as for children or minors.
- This supervision can be carried out from any device that has access to our account. Steam.
- Accounts can be of two types: adult and children or minors. The first are those who will be able to access all the functions and limit the use of the seconds.
- These restrictions on the use of child accounts concern access to the store, the community, chats and forums, hours, hours and days of play and connection, as well as friend management.
- Family Sharing now includes:
- Full access to games purchased by the family, from one of the linked accounts.
- The family library Steam will offer all members the games they can use without limitations.
- Whoever buys the game is the real owner, although other members can play it as family unit users.
- Achievements, progress and saved games will be exclusive to each user.
- Minors will be able to purchase in store but always under the supervision of an adult, who must approve these transactions.
- Once the purchase is accepted, the game becomes part of the minor’s account library.
How to try the Steam Family Beta now?
If you want to try how this will work (without problems), this familiar Steam blueprintAll you need to do is:
- Go to menu Setting from Steam, top left.
- Select the option “Customer participation in the beta» in the menu that will appear in front of you.
- Finally, select “Steam Family Beta» in the list and accept when it asks for confirmation.
- Reboot Steam for the changes to take effect.
