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

submitted 10 months ago by jeena@jemmy.jeena.net to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 10 months ago

That's ridiculous. You should be free to give away, sell, or trade digital games just like you can with physical copies.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago

In the EU, you can.

[-] Reawake9179@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 10 months ago

But only the whole account, or did that change

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago

Not the whole account, only individual games.

Last I heard, Steam hadn't actually implemented that functionality yet, though.

[-] exu@feditown.com 2 points 10 months ago

It would probably take someone to sue them, but they would have to implement it.

[-] morhp@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 10 months ago

Transferring the whole account after you die is what this post is about.

[-] electricprism@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Agree, even more so with the private cloud data. If your loved one dies and you want to visit multiplayer you created together in open world builders it would be shitty to take that away from them. Eg: Father and son played Minecraft together on LAN server or whatever (If that even is a thing)