Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die

www.techspot.com Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die

The confirmation came from the Steam support staff earlier this month when Resetera forum user delete12345 asked Steam support if he can put his Steam library in...

If you cannot pass on your ownership rights to your purchased games to your children, then you cannot pass on your copyright either, I guess?

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Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die

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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

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I mean... They're saying they can't transfer games from one account to another right? But you could just put your account details in your will and anyone could login to your steam account and access your games, right?
Sure would be nice if they had the feature. But I'm not sure it's such a big deal.
- This is explicitly against their TOS. Whether or not you'll be found out is a whole other matter
  
  I suppose they would only find out when the account is still in use after 130 years.
  Or if they cared to check payment details and such.
  
  What if I’m planning to live for more than 130 years, then what? Fuck big corporations /s
  
  Start following the blue zone life style friend!
  
  I can't be arsed to read the ToS again, but is it also forbidden to just share an account between several people?
  My brother and I opened up that account six years ago and except for the times I forgot to turn my internet off to not be kicked out of games while my brother plays one we never had problems. It would be really shitty if we got into trouble for this because the account is valued somewhere between 1.500 and 4.300€ and is the most expensive thing I own except for my PC.
  
  Probably technically, but I can almost guarantee you they quite literally couldn't care less about two brothers sharing an account. They're more worried about large groups sharing an account.
  
  Over the years I have heard stories where Valve closes an account after the owners passing. This is usually because the poster said they had trouble with something and explained that the original owner passed. Valve then responds by closing the account and ignoring the issue.
  With that said I don't think large groups of people can effectively share a library/account because only one person can play at a time. Small groups like spouses, parents, siblings or a small friend group is doable because it is easier to coordinate who is gonna use the account at any given time. This is especially true if they live together.
  With the Deck, I have issues where I boot up a game on my living room PC and my Deck closes it's game making me lose progress on the Deck. Imagine that multiplied 20x. Getting kicked mid match, losing that boss fight, lose your high score, getting left on cliffhanger mid cutscene. The throw your controller rage stuff.
  
  This is explicitly against their TOS. Whether or not you’ll be found out is a whole other matter
  Also whether or not those TOS are legally enforceable in every single country Valve operates in.
- They can. I buy and gift games to my son all the time.
  
  Gifting is not the same as transferring an already bought game to another account. Can you do that?
  
  It the same mechanism. They can do it, they just don't want to.

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