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Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die | Your Steam games will go to the grave with you (www.techspot.com)

submitted 7 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

What Stream support have sent that person is probably an accurate representation of what happens when you apply their policies as written. Write another article if they are seen enforcing it.

Luckily, SteamDRM is usually easy to bypass, so if that happens one could prepare accordingly.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

These days a will should include documentation of logins. No need to bypass Steam DRM when my relatives have my phone's PIN and email credentials to just access all games. Pretty sure my local laws cover digital inheritance.

[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah, my point was, if they do try to enforce their policies, we could probably find a way to work around it. It's probably cheaper and easier than for your heirs to test those digital inheritance laws in court.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The difference is that your Steam account is probably holding thousands of dollars in value while your pirated copies of Steam games are worth nothing. And presumably that whichever of your grandchildren gets nerdy gran's stash will likely not care to reverse engineer your warez archives just to play Bioshock again in 2075.

It's not about access to the games, it's about whether you own what you buy.

[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago

I personally don't value them differently, but I see your point.

The wonky ownership of these games is actually the reason I've been pretty much exclusively buying stuff on GoG for a few years. I don't know their stance on inheritance, but at least the hypothetical grandchild won't need perpetual access to the account to keep playing the games.

In the end, clear legislation is kinda the only thing that can resolve this mess.