Your Steam Library Dies With You

I am going on a deployment with the military to a high risk location that is not at war (yet at least). I did as all in my situation write a formal will and an informal one. In the informal once my log in details (and gaming email address) are mentioned which goes to my best friend.

People can just give their log in info to who ever they want to have it and then that person keeps that games and the account.

LOL this is so ridiculously stupid… pretty sure nobody will be thinking about my steam games when I die…

Who would want your collection of waifu simulators and hentai games anyway?

I really never thought about being I will be dead, but it makes sense to me.

just pass down your steam account info., valve won't know if your alive or not.

But my children must finish what I started!!! This is my legacy, I buy games I never have time to play because they are on sale and I feel like I got a good deal. It will take more life times than I have to complete all the games. Immortality is the only way now!!!

No doubt this will enrage a lot of the easily triggered folks on here or the anti-PC brigade, but this is a minor thing. Obviously it'd be nice if this was something we could do, but at the same time when you die I would like to think there are bigger things to deal with, like things that have actual value.

With that said, I don't know if Valve can actually enforce this as something tells me they aren't checking obituaries so they can cancel your account the second you bite the dust. If you just put your account name and password into the will, I'm pretty sure you can more or less pass on your game collection.

People move and change addresses, get new credit cards, and even can legally change their name...there is no way (AFAIK) for Valve to actually enforce this.

In the end, if it's that important to the deceased, they will have accounted for this and given you the account name and password. My dad has done this with all his various accounts for more important things, for example, as he is 80+ years old and getting things prepared.

I have a Steam account and kept receiving emails constantly for several years. My gaming computer died and I had the username, password and password confirmed because I could log in and request the user name, etc. I got a new gaming computer.

But they would not reactivate my account, they even asked me for the codes from the games CDs that I still have and provided to them. I understand protecting the account but if you forget what credit card you used, forget it. They still have my address, I have not moved.

Shame on them, you own nothing!

Sounds like just before you plan to XX yourself, or going to die, hand your steam email account (whatever it's tied to over) to whoever you want. Then when they set a password reset, it will go to the email.

I personally would want some legal note on this one. So, how about Microsoft ? How about Sony ? How about Nintendo ? (X that one, Nintendo will abandon the console and you can no longer get your games, they suck for this)

Sounds like time for lawmakers to step up to the plate and kick these digital game companies into gear.

Everybody calm down, they aren't saying they will actively try to stop an account being passed down, just that they will not assist with the process.

That said, it is high time we get new laws passed about how digital ownership works and what companies are allowed to get away with in their EULAs. They can say you signed a EULA all they want but if a law passes that makes that portion null and void, it would solve a lot of problems and would be better for the consumer for things like passing down games or in cases where the company goes under or when a license is about to expire so the company tries to delete "purchased" titles from your library.

I gave my PlayStation account to my younger brothers, and another PS account to my older brother, both of which contained games. Sony won't ever be able to find out, nor will Steam. :/

Slow news day eh Gamespot?

And how exactly could they enforce this? like the article says, if I make sure to leave a login / password behind, then how would they even know?

If I die, then I'm dead. I don't care. I can't care then.

They do know that most people already share their Login with trusted people, such as Family, don't they???

So unless they're monitoring Death Certificates and cross referencing them with Account Details, I don't see how they're going to keep track and enforce such a rule...

Such a rule kind of violates the Purchaser's Rights... It clearly says "BUY" when you click to get a Game, you then Pay money for said game, thus you OWN the game and things you OWN can be passed down...
If they want to enforce such a Rule then they need to change that button to "RENT" and put a Time Stamp of say 25 Years or something on the Rights to the game and at such time the Game is automatically deleted from your Library...

I feel like there's gotta be a possible Lawsuit here against Valve... Think I'll look into it...

Well how would they know?

"Hey i know my account is 140 years old, but i am on this new diet"...

I don't get it.

Jokes on them, there is nothing they can do to prevent me from giving my log in details to another person.

See, Valve is not your friend.