{"id":126259,"date":"2024-03-19T09:55:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T07:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=126259"},"modified":"2024-03-19T09:55:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T07:55:46","slug":"steam-family-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/126259-steam-family-announced","title":{"rendered":"Steam Family announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Steam has announced Steam Family, a new set of family sharing and parental control tools for up to 6 \u2018close\u2019 family members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/games\/593110\/announcements\/detail\/4149575031735702629\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/games\/593110\/announcements\/detail\/4149575031735702629\">announcement<\/a><\/strong>, the Steam Families feature will replace the Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View to provide a single location to manage the games your family can access and play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new feature is now available in the Steam Beta Client and lets you create a Steam Family \u2013 allowing you to invite up to five family members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This new family can then be managed from your Steam Client, mobile device, or web browser, and those who join will gain access to the following features:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Family Sharing<\/strong> \u2013 This lets you access sharable games from other members&#8217; libraries, creating separate saved data and letting you play even if they are currently in a game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Parental Controls<\/strong> \u2013 This allows parents to control when and what games children play and monitor their activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Child Purchase Requests<\/strong> \u2013 Streamlines the purchasing process by allowing a child\u2019s account to request an in-game adult to pay for their shopping cart. Approved games will be added to the child\u2019s account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to join<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joining the Steam Family Beta is easy, needing only three steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>While Steam is running, click on Steam&#8217;s upper left, then choose the &#8220;Settings&#8221; menu.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select Interface, then under \u2018Client Beta Participation\u2019, select the dropdown menu.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select Steam Family Beta from the drop-down list, and click OK. You&#8217;ll be prompted to restart Steam at this point.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/126256-psvr2-production-paused\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/126256-psvr2-production-paused\">PSVR2 production paused<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam has announced its new Steam Family function that is now available in the Steam Beta Client.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":126170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26487,85,11341,11252],"class_list":["post-126259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-family-sharing","tag-steam","tag-steam-beta","tag-steam-family-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}