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Introducing Steam Families (steamcommunity.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (13 children)

What happens if my brother gets banned for cheating while playing my game?

If a family member gets banned for cheating while playing your copy of a game, you (the game owner) will also be banned in that game. Other family members are not impacted.

That kinda sucks.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (9 children)

That's necessary, "it was my brother who cheated" is the oldest lie.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Except that lie is often used when sharing an account.

Under this system, there is no ambiguity in terms of if it was you or your brother.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes there is. You can just make another account for yourself and add it to the family, then use it to cheat. That's the reason why they have to ban both.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Aaah, didn't think about that. Darn! Can't have nice things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah it's unfortunate that a few bad Apples have to ruin it for everyone 😅.

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