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Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families

Bristle1744@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Optimist me: Steam looking into curating the next generation of customers.

Pessimist me: child protection laws made it too much of a headache for Steam to monetize the kids.

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Khanzarate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Both!

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bitwaba@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Also, 2 weeks ago Last Epoch disabled family account sharing because it was being abused for real money trading:

We have unfortunately had to disable family sharing on Steam for Last Epoch.

This feature enabled the use of significant RMT (Real Money Trading) and Botting options, and was removing our ability to ban/remove accounts, faster than they could share them with their entire networks.

I don’t think any one specific thing is responsible for this change, but the 5 account limit seems like it would certainily be a welcome change for the Last Epoch devs.

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- Someone64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  The 5 account limit was always there.
  
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  - dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    But you could freely rotate in new accounts. Now you have to wait a year.
    
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