Fall Guys cheating loophole leads to blanket Family Sharing ban

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  Race against dozens of foes in a typical "race" minigame. [credit: Mediatonic / Devolver Digital ]

 

Unscrupulous Fall Guys players have been using a loophole in Steam's Family Sharing feature to get around cheat detection bans. Now, the Fall Guys Twitter account says it has turned off Family Sharing for the game as it continues to find and stop cheaters among the game's 7 million Steam purchasers.

Before the loophole was closed, Steam players were able to buy Fall Guys on a primary account and then share the game with a newly created, free "burner" account using Steam's longstanding Family Sharing program. If and when the burner account was banned after cheating was detected, the process could be repeated ad infinitum without the need to repurchase the game on a new account.

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