The developers of Dune: Awakening are fighting against users of cheats and exploits. As part of the necessary measures, they now have to deactivate a useful family feature.
What is this feature? The Steam family allows you to share the games in your Steam library with other accounts that you have defined as part of your family. Detailed information can be found on steampowered.com.
For Dune: Awakening, you can no longer use this “Family Sharing” for the time being. On duneawakening.com, the developers from Funcom explain:
Lastly, we are temporarily disabling family sharing, as this feature has unfortunately been frequently abused. We apologize to our players who have used this feature legitimately. We are actively working on changes that will allow us to reactivate the system as soon as possible. Although we currently cannot provide a timeline, we aim to implement these changes within this year. We will inform you as soon as we have a date.
The developers further explain that through hotfixes, several exploits have been fixed, hundreds of exploit users and cheaters have been banned, and large amounts of Solaris, obtained illegally, have been removed from the game.
“This is not Amazon or Activision”
How is the community reacting to the announcement? In a current discussion on Reddit, many players are pleased that Funcom is working on the current issues of the game and is responding to community feedback. However, some remember previous games by the developer.
- S-7G writes on Reddit: “I appreciate the communication and completely understand the decision.”
- andizzzzi praises Funcom’s work on Reddit: “People have not realized that these are serious developers. This is not Amazon or Activision.”
- Electronic-Clue6184 is still skeptical on Reddit:
They said the same thing more than a dozen times during the lifespan of Conan. Guess what was never fixed? The cheaters and dupers. Every patch only caused new problems. It would be great if they could fix this issue in Dune, but after Conan, I have little hope.
What do you think: Are you satisfied with the work Funcom has done so far? The fact that the developers from Funcom are keeping a close eye on community platforms like Reddit also shows a different, very nice story about a player whose base was abandoned: The “Message to Ben” even reaches the developers of Dune: Awakening, now the community celebrates a happy ending
