Once it has finished loading, navigate via the menu bar to Steam – >Settings. Note: Although we’re using the Steam client for this tutorial (because it allows you to immediately test your changes and see the results), you can in fact log into your Steam account and, using the Family Options (found in the lower right hand column) make the same changes. If you haven’t launched it in the last week or so, you’ll have a client update waiting (which will enable the new options). Let’s take a tour of the setup process to show off how easy it is to lock down your Steam account. We’ve had the opportunity to beta-test Family Options and have been quite pleased with it. Even though there’s no objectionable game content in your child’s Steam account, it’s still nice to be able to lock down the account so that they can’t access the Steam store or find themselves chatting with random people via the Steam communities and chat. Let’s say you set up a Steam account for your child so that you two can play multiplayer Steam games together. Although the most obvious use of Steam Family Options is to lock down an adult’s account so that only the kid-friendly content is accessible, we’d like to point out that it’s also very useful for locking down Steam accounts that belong to children.
This less than ideal situation is, however, thankfully mended by the release of the Steam Family Options. It’s a less than ideal situation if you want to let your kids play the kid-friendly games in your Steam library.
Just take a look at the screenshot above: not only are there a bunch of kid-inappropriate games we certainly wouldn’t want our kids playing, but they can also (with just a few clicks) open the store and purchase things, hop into the Steam Community and talk with anyone, or otherwise mess around with settings and our content. By default, when you launch the Steam client you have full access to everything: the Steam store, the complete game library of the current user, the Steam Community (online discussions), the profile of the current user, and all the settings.
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