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

submitted 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

In the EU, you can.

[-] Reawake9179@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 2 years ago

But only the whole account, or did that change

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[-] morhp@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 years ago

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

[-] electricprism@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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)