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.
I already tried it, apply ASAP for the Family Beta. Now both of my kids can simultaneously use my library as long as they play a different game. Before, only one of my kids was allowed to borrow from my library, the rest of it was locked down. Amazing update.
There was a pretty big work around for that, as long as only one person is in “online” mode on Steam, you can technically have infinite people playing at once. Of course that only works if most people want to play a single player or local LAN game.
I already tried it, apply ASAP for the Family Beta. Now both of my kids can simultaneously use my library as long as they play a different game. Before, only one of my kids was allowed to borrow from my library, the rest of it was locked down. Amazing update.
There was a pretty big work around for that, as long as only one person is in “online” mode on Steam, you can technically have infinite people playing at once. Of course that only works if most people want to play a single player or local LAN game.