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Not defending it but it has to be a pretty long period, i have played their game or used their launcher in a few years and have not gotten any email about my account getting deleted.
I fucking love that Valve is privately owned and hope it stays that way forever. It seems like they're the only game store not subject to enshittification and I'm sure that not being a public company is a huge part of why. They've kept their amazing search feature all this time, just put out a significant UI update that helps UX a lot on high res monitors, and still let you play without updating if you go into offline mode (though it is a bit of a hassle).
Yet...
Fair enough, but why have any length of time at all? What purpose does it serve the prune old accounts?
Account information can't be taking up that much space on a hard disk.
I really can't say.
Google is also deleting email accounts that have been inactive for too long as well.