It’s the only way I can see it working. Otherwise, you could just make infinite cheat accounts.
Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families
callouscomic@lemm.ee 3 months ago
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.
This is going to be hilarious. Can’t wait to see the whining online.
Rinox@feddit.it 3 months ago
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
i mean theoretically they could just make it count as a strike, and if your account gets 3 strikes this way then your account is out as well
0xD@infosec.pub 3 months ago
That’s two cheating incidents too many.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Well, 5 cheat accounts a year.
INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Oh no
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Isn’t that exactly the same as how it worked before?
There may have been a brief moment where that didn’t happen, and then people discovered they could make cheat accounts, share their own games with them and get only the cheat accounts banned, and then make new ones and repeat.
Jaybob32@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
It is. My vac ban is currently 4990 days old.
Retrograde@lemmy.world 3 months ago
TIL to make my future children their own steam accounts
Silentiea@lemm.ee 3 months ago
And buy them their own copies of online games.
extant@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Currently each steam account is given a unique steam id number which is how most steam games identify the player and when you family share you are just associating that new steamid with your steamid so you can share certain purchases with if the developer allows it. Since each account is unique if I ban one it doesn’t ban the other. In the past you could use the steam public web API to query a steamid to see if it was a family shared and it would respond with the parent account and you could compare that to your ban list and then ban the new account. A few years ago steam removed that capability for privacy protection and moved it to the game developers partner only access so a game developer could implement that same check but very few did and older or abandoned games are rife with cheaters now.
Now it would steam they are automagically making that check now or instead of a steam id it’s a family id, I have no idea but if it prevents account whack-a-mole and brings back automation I’m all for it.