Steam Family Share becomes even better (hopefully) with Steam Families

Just wish they would make it so that I can choose which games I want to share and which not.
My mom would love to play some of my puzzle games, but rather not let her touch some of my other games since I know that would require me to help set stuff up, explain stuff, etc. which gets annoying fast!

Time to start letting my wife play games on my account more often.

Hmm, there are a lot of open questions. Right now, I am not using any kind of family sharing. Though, if I would create a family, it would at best include my brother, sister and maybe my girlfriend. Is there a limit on adults in a family?

Also, how exactly is household defined? My family lives all in Germany but I am a few hundred kilometres away from them. Does this still count as a household in the family sense? Not that I think my brother and sister are actually playing a lot PC games.

For actual families with children in the same house, this is a great addition. For some what older people where the family may be at different places due to work and relationships, there are too many open questions to make a judgment. And for people abusing the current family library system, this will be a nightmare.

Next steps:

• the accounts have to be on the same IP.
• not letting you log into your own account if you're not in the country your account originates in.

Sounds like a solid improvement for family household sharing.

Honestly, for some of us, it will just become entirely useless. My family sharing circle are located across the globe, so I guess I won't be able to use this feature anymore :(

While a user in Maine can share a game with a sibling in Hawaii if you're located in a tiny country like Liechtenstein, Andorra or Malta you better keep your family close to you. But it's not about making families happy but to sell more games by imposing more restrictions.

1 step forward, 2 steps backwards. Typical Steam "upgrade" as of late.

Although I love that they allow simultaneous gaming now, I hate the geolocation. My brother-in-law can no longer use my games because I moved out of country and settled somewhere else.

time to adopt my best friends i suppose lol

from the sound of the news, it sound great, but i haven't add anyone as "family" yet, but if is geolocation, then is not that great, i.e. my cousin in HK for example, while i am in the states. or the other way around?

Playing games at the same time is a step in the right direction, but single country restriction is dumb considering families can be split across countries and game licenses already have region restrictions implemented.
Also be careful with your testing. Once a person leaves your family they will get a 1 year cooldown on joining a new one. Also, if you had invited anyone for testing and they joined, disbanding the family would also lock you for 1 year from creating a new one.

So after testing the beta last night I found the following
1) If only 1 person owns a game, and someone else is playing it, then the original owner can't play the game, doesn't even have an option to kick the other player (so this is annoying)
2) If you mark a game as private the following will happen
2.1) If you are the original owner: Then the game won't show for anyone else
2.2) If you are playing it off of someone else's library: Then it won't show in your activity feed at all

So if you have a new game, and want to make sure no one else can play it until your finished with it, then the best solution is to private the game until you're done with it