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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Would be kind of funny to see the different stats that would change if a family was able to pass on the full account. Like maybe one child didn't give a fuck about games (outside of just signing in here and there to keep it alive and update stuff like email and security) and no other activity. But then their kid goes hard into games and see the gaps of time. There would be lots of accounts that may have super awkward stuff like hentai visual novels. lol. But seeing some stupid high amounts of achievements and total hours of play time would be neat.

But not exactly shocking that these digital accounts would not have the ability to go much past your death. Unless we see the very deep change of all companies allowing people to remove a game and basically "gift" it. Which I can't see happening. Even physically having discs/carts hits a limit after so long. Normal wear of use and the material rotting does mean it is likely those would also not survive past a couple of generations. And that ignores the same issues afflicting the consoles needed to play the media.

So basically the real solution to both the digital and physical passing games (or music/movies) is to rip DRM-less copies and keep the needed tools to either use the game without having the disc or needing to register to a server that is likely gone. Might be a good idea to leave ReadMe instructions along with the iso/rom and copies of the official and community patches that help with new OSes. After that it is basically just down to needing virtual machines or some other PC emulators to run old emulators.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

Shame. It would be a good way to know if you are their favorite child lol. All joking aside, I think this is a compromise as others have alluded deep in comments. Valve likely doesn't care or enforce it, but they don't want to be responsible for account transfer due to games licensing and other legal shenanigans.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Ahh, let the Ensh*ttification of all these platforms wash over you.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago

Highly doubt this would hold up in court, but then again no one has challenged these digital market places. If you buy the game on their platform it should be legally yours and you can do what you want with it.

[–] [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

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