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Has the Steam Family update launched yet? The one that lifted the limitation on playing different games from the same account at the same time. I feel like last I saw it was in beta.

Was also wondering if anyone has a good sense on how they’re policing Family Libraries. Does it work to share with close friends or am I going to want to be sure I’m sharing only with household members?

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I’m in the beta with my wife and cousin. It works great so far. I was able to try out dragons dogma 2 from the cousins account, remember why I hated dd1, and promptly un-installed it.

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Ha I actually thought I liked DD1 after I played it for about 45 minutes. But that was years ago and I haven’t touched it again soo

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The one that lifted the limitation on playing different games from the same account at the same time.

That should never have been a limitation in the first place. If I have two games installed outside of Steam there’s nothing stopping me from playing both at the same time, so WTF does Valve think ever justified it?

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Agreed it was a chincy restriction. I’m glad they’re righting that with the new Family Sharing.

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You can opt into the Family Sharing beta and get the features. You can only join one family per year so choose wisely as they say.

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Okay good to know. I’ll be using it to try to entice a few friends at least half way away from their Playstations to Steam Decks.

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