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I mean, it's been here for beta years and yes, it is absolutely fantastic. The one year penalty keeps me from handing it out like candy to extended family and friends (plus we all have that cousin who can't be trusted) while I can let my wife and kids play games on my account without them kicking me out of mine.
The parental controls are good too, although I'm not using them yet since my kids are too young to really pick their games from the library themselves.
So how do I create a Steam Family? I can't see an option to do so anywhere but I am most likely just missing it... or it hasn't been rolled out to the UK yet
edit: found it! For anyone else who is lost like me, go to the top right and click on your use name and then Account Details. From there, Family Management is on the left and it's obvious
I have three sons, they live in the West Coast, I live in the Midwest. I can't join a family with them. That's a bummer.
Why not? My Steam Family is just a group of friends spread out all across the country. Geographic distance shouldn't be an issue.
I don't really know how it works but according to a lot of other people here it doesn't work unless you are in the same region. This isn't the only person here saying they can't use it because they don't live near their family.
Soon they will need a Family Crypt to archive the games of dead generations
Oh very nice! My partner and I share libraries and it was really clunky the way it worked before.
Rip my shared library with gf living in NO and me in NL :(
How does this effect that?
My guess is this, which is way at the bottom of the support FAQ page (which can be found at the bottom of the posted FAQ section):
"I cannot join a Steam Family"
If you cannot join a Steam Family, it is likely for one of three reasons:
I cannot invite my gf to the Families, while we could do Library share before just fine.
Just sign in with her account on your pc, invite her and then you can sign out. I had the same problem.
Why not?
Replied in other posts, it likely is because you have to be in the same country/steam store region or something...
A lot of work but: have her VPN into your residential network and send her traffic through your ISP for a while.
5head tactics haha.
I wish they made all games require sharing
What is this. Because I'm pretty upset that the games I paid for can't be played on different pc's. My daughter wants to pay stardew valley while I'm online with family on satisfactory. I have to take the other pc and go into offline mode. This wasn't the solution. Even with adding members I didn't think I did it right. So does this fix it? Can my family member log into stardew online with her cousin while I'm on another lan game?