Hello! We are excited to announce Steam Families, available today in the Steam Beta Client. Steam Families is a collection of new and existing family-related features. It replaces both Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View, giving you a single location to manage which games your family can access and when they can play. Create a Steam Family To get started, you can create a Steam Family and then invite up to 5 family members.
So this is great except for the cheating thing. Why am I being punished as the games owner because someone else in my family was banned for cheating? Ban the cheater not the owner.
Do it on a 3 strikes basis. They don’t ban an account in a single offense. And therefore shouldn’t do that to account groups either. It’s not perfect. But it’s much more forgiving and fair.
you’re not getting banned from steam, you’re generally getting banned from participating in anti cheat secured lobbies of a single game or a group of games.
single player experience is generally not affected.
having a 3 strike system before getting banned from multiplayer just means it’s 66% cheaper for a cheater to get a new copy of the game.
this is also not new and has been the case for the current family sharing system as well.
So this is great except for the cheating thing. Why am I being punished as the games owner because someone else in my family was banned for cheating? Ban the cheater not the owner.
So people don’t have 5 accounts they can cheat under for a single game purchase.
Do it on a 3 strikes basis. They don’t ban an account in a single offense. And therefore shouldn’t do that to account groups either. It’s not perfect. But it’s much more forgiving and fair.
you’re not getting banned from steam, you’re generally getting banned from participating in anti cheat secured lobbies of a single game or a group of games.
single player experience is generally not affected.
having a 3 strike system before getting banned from multiplayer just means it’s 66% cheaper for a cheater to get a new copy of the game.
this is also not new and has been the case for the current family sharing system as well.
That’s how most bans already work, so what’s the problem? You got to be quite egregious for Steam to ban you outright.
Honestly I think it’s a good thing. It strongly decentivizes cheating by there being a possibility of real-world consequences for cheating.
Don’t harbor cheaters 4head