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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 to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Oh for sure, but it's definitely a concern for stuff like this. It's a lot easier for valve to just expect people to pass login info down as a way to pass on an account.

Valve actually migrating purchases from one account to another risks upsetting publishers, and requires whole new policies on how to verify death and verify who should receive the account. Finally there's the risk of scams and having to resolve them. Overall it's a lot of headache for valve, I'm not surprised they're not jumping to offer it officially.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Transferring ownership of the account also transfers the game license owned by the account. Still upset publisher

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Still applicable

[–] Cocodapuf 1 points 6 months ago

Isn't this all already possible in Germany? I'm pretty sure I remember a story about valve losing a lawsuit some years back so in Germany people are allowed to transfer their games.