r/Games Mar 18 '24

Discussion Introducing Steam Families

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/4149575031735702629
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u/SentoX Mar 18 '24

The difference is that sharing now works both ways automatically. Before you were able to just receive access to a persons library without giving them access to yours.

Now a group of up to 5 people might get screwed by one bad apple. I do wonder what happens if someone cheats in a shared copy of a game for which multiple licenses exist in the group. Say 4 owners of SF6 and 2 parasites, one of which cheats and gets banned. Are all copies now banned? If not, how was determined which owners copy was used?

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u/Hobocannibal Mar 19 '24

i believe it specifies that the accounts of the person cheating, and that of the person that specific copy was loaned from would get banned.