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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (54 children)

This bit is a bit fucked up:

What happens if my brother gets banned for cheating while playing my game?

If a family member gets banned for cheating while playing your copy of a game, you (the game owner) will also be banned in that game. Other family members are not impacted.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It is not different from how the previous shared libraries worked. I guess it's there to stop cheaters from buying a single copy of the game and sharing it with throwaway accounts.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

That sort of behaviour should be easy to track if it happens more than once though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Being able to evade a ban once is already a problem. Now you need to ban every cheater twice to really ban them.

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