Your Steam games will go to the grave with you
Just like my porn!
this post was submitted on 27 May 2024
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And to my treasured grandson, I leave my steam account details written on an old napkin.
Means you don't own anything then. It is a lost autonomy. Once lost, you will only lose more with time.
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This is Valve thinking ahead - when we invent the ability to respawn, we can just log back in like death never happened.
To be absolutely clear, this is not new. Steam accounts being non-transferrable and not your property has always been how Steam's terms work. It's not even the first time the death situation comes up.
Because digital ownership sucks, and that absolutely, very much includes Steam. If you can't keep an offline copy you don't own it.
But honestly, given the new family groups Steam came up with this gets weirder now. Other accounts that are more closely tied to hardware are one thing, and I do wish we had a more effective and reliable way to hand over passwords and credentials to relatives in case of emergency, but it's so weird that now your mom can have an accident and you slowly see the games she was sharing with you over that system fade away as her account gets shuttered. It's such a grim, sci-fi distopian piece of minutia. This is not a great timeline we landed on.
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Damn, I guess I am living forever now.
Tough shit. Someone needs to enjoy the games.
And who says you have to notify Valve with what you do to your account?
EU, do your thing
not sure what EU should do here
Regulate digital purchases.
https://publicknowledge.org/eu-court-when-you-buy-software-you-own-it/
The EU has already taken care of it.
The Court of Justice of the European Union found that a
copyright owner exhausts the right of distribution to a copy of a computer
program once he sells, or authorizes the sale of, the copy. This means that whoever purchased the
computer program can resell it and the copyright holder cannot control the
resale of the copy. The Court found that
this exhaustion principle applies whether the copy is on a tangible medium like
a CD-ROM or DVD or an intangible download from the Internet, and it also
applies to corrected and updated programs that the copyright owner sells. Furthermore, the Court made clear that contract
clauses that deny the customer the right to transfer his copy of the computer
program are void.
So, we can in the EU? But they provide no way of doing so without giving the account over.
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On one hand, that's shitty.
On the other hand, I cant imagine anyone in my family gives a shit about my games.
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Well, if you're stupid enough to tell valve about the death that is
Hey valve, I died....
"... I got better."
Hey valve, so, Uhr... Funny thing... I'm actually... Uh
.. kinda dead
My family plays the games under my account now. I imagine not much will change when I'm dead.
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Pretty sure I'm good. Account email is a forwarder to a family domain and they have access to everything relating to the account. For all intents and purposes, it's just me logging in from the grave.
Put your passwords in your will
Yes I agree but I’m telling them family sharing being on is not sufficient.
So thats why they say not to give your password to anyone.
If steam did allow transfers this way, I can imagine it being a new type scam where people fabricate death documents to steal steam accounts.
True but ultimately this is about ownership - we don't own our games. We license them - that is what is lost with Steam and DRM, and moving away from physical media.
GOG is an alternative in that you can download and back up the installers for your games (mostly) but even then do you own your ganes?
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I'd like you to read what you just wrote very slowly and imagine it's somebody else saying it, just to visualize if it's an absolutey bonkers thing to say.
There's also items in people's accounts
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Your Steam games will go to the grave with you
Great, then I'll finally have some time to play them....
finally some cloud gaming
The only cloud gaming I will accept
Wait a minute... why is it so hot here? That can't be good for the... Windows Vista computer?! Where the heck am I?
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