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You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (2 children)

How will they control if someone other continue with your account when you die?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When it appears the OG user is 150 years old.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I can't be the only one that puts their age as 1st Jan any random year in the 1920s instead of taking the time to put my real age in to view new games coming out. Steam already thinks I am near death.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There was a great response to this from Gabe several years ago (looks like 13 years ago, fuck, I'm old)...

https://www.totalgaming.co.uk/93-of-steam-users-born-on-january-1st/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Nope. I too don’t use my own DOB but I’ll tend to keep the range correct. Maybe I should start going older.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Same as any other illegality. It's legal until you get caught. The account will work fine until for one reason or another it becomes obvious you're not the original owner of the account, and then it's banned. Billing changes, location changes, ip changes, confession, etc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe some generations later in the future it becomes suspicious. Valve want gain money and there is no reason that it will deep investigate if the downloads are still paid from the same account and paid with the same banc account, irrelevant if it's from a different IP or ISP, that are things that can change even with the same user (transladet to other city, changing provider or PC, etc).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But imagine if the original owner bought Skyrim, and then you have to buy it again if you want to play it. Two Skyrim moneys!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Anyway, if I'm dead I'll give a fuck if Valve want to claim something