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Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die | Your Steam games will go to the grave with you (www.techspot.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago

So sad I won't be able to bequeath "Fifty Shades of Fur - Gay Erotic Visual Novel 18+" to my grandchildren

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

Then come fucking stop me

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago

Once again further diluting the meaning of the words "bought" and "sold"

[–] [email protected] 77 points 5 months ago (10 children)

“And to my son, I bequeath my steam account - user is blah and password is blah”

Checkmate steam

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

blah!@birthday-ssn

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[+] [email protected] -22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Wooo... glad I stopped investing into video games about a decade ago. Between this and Ubisoft's, "DEI" into their video games lol.. fk the whack gaming industry.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You don't have to say dei. You can just say the n-word like we all know you want to

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I.. don't care about the race of a character in Assassin's Creed.. lol it's a fkin video game, bro. As if I've never played Final Fantasy with different "species" and skin colors for lack of a better term. Psssst I'm Latino. I have family members who look straight up Black to the typical plebian.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Same which means I know that being latino doesn't mean you can't be racist as fuck. Please tell me how you saying "dei" in assassins creed has nothing to do with the black guy being a main character.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago

It's not because a character is Black. DEI is not just about race.

smh.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Which part of diversity, equity and inclusion are you opposed to? Or do the quotes mean that Ubisoft is doing something nefarious in the name of DEI and I'm out of the loop?

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

Typical Gamergate crap, most likely.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

They also don’t let you transfer purchases if for instance you’re being stalked

Had a friend lose a thousand games that way

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Friend could have in theory just authorized their steam library on the computer and played them through a different account. The "family sharing" thing.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

What Stream support have sent that person is probably an accurate representation of what happens when you apply their policies as written. Write another article if they are seen enforcing it.

Luckily, SteamDRM is usually easy to bypass, so if that happens one could prepare accordingly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

These days a will should include documentation of logins. No need to bypass Steam DRM when my relatives have my phone's PIN and email credentials to just access all games. Pretty sure my local laws cover digital inheritance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah, my point was, if they do try to enforce their policies, we could probably find a way to work around it. It's probably cheaper and easier than for your heirs to test those digital inheritance laws in court.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Soon they’ll clarify their philosophical stance on identity & claim a person changes so much from moment to moment that yesterday-you doesn’t exist anymore, & therefore must pay again

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Somewhere there is a hyper capitalist parallel Universum where buddhism is the mainstream western religion and this stance is enforced rigorously.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I just started Talos Principle the other day and this reads like something that computer that keeps arguing with me about personhood would say

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