Technology

Your Steam games will go to the grave with you

Great, then I'll finally have some time to play them....

If steam did allow transfers this way, I can imagine it being a new type scam where people fabricate death documents to steal steam accounts.

Life Pro Tip: Register an LLC to buy your steam games under. The LLC will never die and you can transfer ownership of the business entity while it retains control of the steam account.

just share your login lol

Do they check? Or can i just give my password to my homie in a letter

"Dear homie,

if you are reading this, it means that i'm on the long path to meet with master Kaio to train my ass off to death in the afterlife. Until we meet again, this is my user and pass of my steam account.

PS: i didn't bought the porno VR games. Someone gifted them to me.

Your bro in eternity,

Siegfried"

When you're dead but someone has got into your steam account and is about to find all of your anime titty games

Oh I didn't own my steam account it was created for my future children. it's a trust.

Bury me with my backlog.

Who's notifying Valve someone with an account has died? Link the dead person's account to a steam family and enjoy the inheritance.

“And to my son, I bequeath my steam account - user is blah and password is blah”

Checkmate steam

Assuming that the world continues to exist in a way that lets me have a steam account at the time of my natural lifespans average end (another... 46 years):

My steam library grows at a slower rate than my mass storage has, and I'm quite confident that one will be able to fit my entire steam library as it currently is on a normal and affordable drive in at most 15 years.

With those two facts in play I can remain confident in my ability to crack everything I own (assuming I even want everything) and safely store it for at-will passing down to as many people as I want.

But thanks for the reminder to not blindly trust you, Valve. Always useful to have those.

Sounds ripe for a legal challenge, but neo-ownership of digital-goods is already so fragile.

They also don’t let you transfer purchases if for instance you’re being stalked

Had a friend lose a thousand games that way

I really feel like this won't/can't be enforced.

To be absolutely clear, this is not new. Steam accounts being non-transferrable and not your property has always been how Steam's terms work. It's not even the first time the death situation comes up.

Because digital ownership sucks, and that absolutely, very much includes Steam. If you can't keep an offline copy you don't own it.

But honestly, given the new family groups Steam came up with this gets weirder now. Other accounts that are more closely tied to hardware are one thing, and I do wish we had a more effective and reliable way to hand over passwords and credentials to relatives in case of emergency, but it's so weird that now your mom can have an accident and you slowly see the games she was sharing with you over that system fade away as her account gets shuttered. It's such a grim, sci-fi distopian piece of minutia. This is not a great timeline we landed on.

just don't die

So you can inherit a house, but not a freakin' game... is that even legal?

Rare steam L

Does this apply to developer accounts? Because if so this would be dumb as fuck.

Once again further diluting the meaning of the words "bought" and "sold"

EU, do your thing

Seems like a shitty hill to die, sacrificing entire generations of family remaining on your platform over old obsolete games on a subscription service. Tell me the video game industry is stale without telling me the video game industry is stale.

What they dont know wont hurt you

So sad I won't be able to bequeath "Fifty Shades of Fur - Gay Erotic Visual Novel 18+" to my grandchildren

I’d like to see them try stopping me giving my kids my password.

I had been literally planning on putting my Steam account in the will...