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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)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My family plays the games under my account now. I imagine not much will change when I'm dead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] tsonfeir 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Put your passwords in your will

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Yes I agree but I’m telling them family sharing being on is not sufficient.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure I'm good. Account email is a forwarder to a family domain and they have access to everything relating to the account. For all intents and purposes, it's just me logging in from the grave.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sorry for not being clear, I wasn't aware family sharing was even a thing. In my case, everyone is using my credentials to log into and use the games under my account. All the same property so same IP.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, but Valve doesn't really give a shit if it's abused. Steam is a solitary positive example of the weird "(mostly)benevolent monopoly" idea. GabeN owns the company, there aren't any shareholders to appease, so as long as he's alive steam will be solid. I hope he has a successor picked out that can uphold his ideals.

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