Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die
Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die
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Well that’s a bit morbid. Happy Memorial Day.
But what is stopping just leaving your username/password on a piece of paper and transferring Steam Guard? I feel like this is one of those things we didn’t need a “confirm” on.
I will be reincarnated into myself to finish my backlog
This is why GOG storefront is superior….. Even though valve is better than Epic is regards to consumer friendly, nothing beats DRM free and unfortunately a lot of games have DRM on steam versions of games including steams own DRM
Everything is only illegal if you get caught.
Give your account to someone and say nothing to anyone. Does valve do an audit of accounts? How would they know your hand isn’t on the kb&m as opposed to someone else’s? Just pass on all viable information(user info, customer service info, wrc.), have them use steam gift cards, etc.
Ok. Writing down my info and putting in the safe lol.
Catch my 120 year old Steam account still playing TF2 (there is no TF3 yet)
A single support agent answering a rare/strange question isn’t the same to me as “Valve confirms”. I’ll hold of until Valve gives an official press statement about it.
I wonder, could they actually catch you? Say you give your username/password/email to a son or daughter or niece or nephew or the voluptuous brazilian caretaker waiting for you to die.
They’d have to use their own credit card, and thus their own name. Would that trip up a security measure?
More proof that you don’t own shit when you buy digital.
Get it hard copy! Always.
Valve needs to open gaming retirement communities so we can finally make a dent in our backlogs before we die.
I’m giving my grandchildren my username/password. Let Valve be the bad guys and take it away from them.
Shame my PC will automatically log into my steam account when I’m dead.
Not to mention my family sharing will still work.
This isn’t new. It applies to all digital libraries for all media on any platform.
That being said, there’s nothing stopping you from leaving a note or message to someone with your account details. No corp would ever know.
It’s Back to feudal days to let my son inherit my account, but then his younger brother plans to kill him, his uncles too, and even my bastard also wants to kill him.
i mean it makes sense, you’d need their phone if they have steam guard, you’d also need to sign into their email, and what if the person its given to just sells the account. too many bad things can happen
We all knew this was the case after Bruce Willis tried to leave his apple music collection to his kids in his will.
YOU OWN FUCKING NOTHING!!!!!!!
Oh no
Anyways
It can, just shut the fuck up about it.
I swear, I have no idea what it is with idiots and snitching on themselves. Just share the credentials and SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP.
Why is this in the news cycle? This has been known for years and the work around has always been just leaving your username and password to someone else in your belongings.
What confuses me is, what determines ownership? If a Steam account is used by a family or a business or anything else, how on earth is Valve supposed to verify this? Isn’t the only semblance of identity tied to things like emails, usernames and passwords, which can be shared or recreated easily? When someone passes, what’s stopping someone from truthfully saying “This IS my account”? Does Valve just seek admissions like it’s some court case so they can terminate accounts upon doing so?
My password can.
Honestly I will be dead so I won’t care. In theory it’s written in a book I keep for my passwords but if noone ever plays my steam games again it won’t bother me.
From what I’ve read this is inaccurate. You just are not allowed to transfer without Valve’s permission.
Let’s just revisit this discussion in 20ish years when it actually becomes a wide spread issue?
Hell yeah I’m 150 years old, and I change my name every 50 or so years. What of it?
Will just have to take it with me then.
I’ve been thinking about this since I saw it mentioned the other day. First, my collection is worth a lot right now – but it won’t be in 30 years. It might be a couple hundred bucks at best due to the games that will be cult classics, but most games will be purchased at a few dollars. Nobody else is going to have exactly the same interests as me, so most of the games tied to the account aren’t going to get played once I’m gone. Then we come to support – can we really say in 2-3 more OS’s all these games are still going to work? This is just the way it’s going to go with computer games. Online services get closed, games stop being supported. I have a stack of games in boxes right now that I own – and they do not work anymore without getting hacky.
When I’m getting up there in years I’ll probably put my Steam info in my wallet so someone can take it when I’m gone… but nobody’s going to actually want it.
Now, if I die in a car accident tomorrow the account’s just lost. I don’t write my passwords down anyway.
I have been reading this same story in this same subreddit every single day for a fucking week now.
How many times is this going to be reposted?
So no current game with Steam DRM,can be preserved legally on Steam in like 120 years.(if they get delisted today).
Didn’t you get this “information” from a tweet? All you have to do is give your family member your email and password. It’s not that difficult.
yeah sure
The longer I stay on the seas the surer I get of never returning to shore.
Does anyone actually care about this? I’d be dead, transferring my Steam account would be the least of my worries.
I feel like someone should tell them to stfu.
My testament will be my password
They really can’t stop you tbh.
Grandchild, u must inherit this 10,000 hours and number of trash set in dota 2. It is urs to shape ur toxicity and spread grievances.
All it takes is giving your passwords. They can do the rest.
Fortunately, Valve’s Terms of Service are not law. What I do with my Steam account is my own business, and Valve would have to violate actual laws to determine the real user of the account.
Yes you can, just pass down your email and logins.
Seems like a good question to email Gabe, rather than support. There’s evidence around the Steam forums and Reddit that support has flip-flopped on their responses to these inquiries for several years now. Some reps have said Steam will work with heirs who can verify IDs and send a death certificate, other reps have quoted the ToS and said they could deactivate the account only.
A lot of these companies now like Microsoft, Sony, Google, Apple, will only transfer data or account rights by providing them with all the aforementioned proof, with the additional requirement of a court order from a US judge.
If you’re concerned about what’s going to happen with your account after you die, you probably don’t want to leave it to chance or the goodwill of a corporation. If you leave the user/pass to your family, there may come a time when Steam just terminates all accounts over a certain age. Who knows.
LMAO, bet.
Already been writing down logins for the day as it can happen any day and I want my nephew to get my collection.
If I don’t own it, piracy is not a thing too.
And how do they know if I die?
They’re not saying you can’t give your login info to someone before you die. They’re just saying that they won’t facilitate the process.
Why would my children want to play 50 year old games that probably won’t even work anymore on future quantum 64K VR brain plugin devices?