No leaving a Steam account in a will after you die according to Valve
No leaving a Steam account in a will after you die according to Valve
Doing the rounds right now is a post from Valve's Steam support, when a user asked about what would happen to their Steam account when they died and it's not great news for anyone hoping to pass on your Steam account.
Well good luck finding out it's actually my grandkids playing my 2008 copy of Left 4 Dead
Hopefully more people shift to companies like GOG. Can't get everything on there, but I've got quite a bit.
Does GOG allow it? I expect theres a clause for that in their TOS too.
Edit:
Regarding accounts, from their TOS:
(h) Don’t share, ‘buy’, ‘sell’, transfer, gift, lend, steal, misappropriate or misuse GOG accounts.
That said, I'm looking for details for individual games, but odds are, the rules are the same. Yes, you can still do it, but you can on Steam as well and if you're disregarding legality, theres always other options.
Edit 2:
3.3 Your GOG account and GOG content are personal to you and cannot be shared with, sold, gifted or transferred to anyone else.
From https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212632089-GOG-User-Agreement?product=gog
GOG has always been big on non-DRM and giving you direct access to the installers. They do have a launcher, which likely has similar terms as Steam, but there's no way to enforce the way people use installers.
So it's more similar to physical media--there's still legislation, but I don't believe "passing on" a game would be any more illegal than passing on a physical disk.
And GOG has always been in favor of this model, to my knowledge.
I'm on Linux, so no. Absolutely not.
I'm also on Linux. There are plenty of games that run natively. I still use Steam for those I can't get on GOG, but there are plenty you can.
At some point Gaben will retire and an MBA will run steam into the ground.
When I die, I am absolutely making sure someone I like gets password access to my accounts on various services. Don't care if it's against TOS of various services. That's their problem, not mine.
Can't wait until the EU explains to them where their place is.
Also, do people of Lemmy still think Steam is the best company ever?
Even with this they are still in the running for "Least Bad"
Considering that all of the platforms have the "non-transferable" clause in their EULAs... It seems to be an industry issue, not a Steam one.
Yeah, but no one's pretending Epic is good, while the sentiment that Valve is somehow pro-consumer is thrown around a lot.
The bar for big gaming companies is so low that a company that isn't actively trying to gouge its customers is seem as exceptional
This is a reply by a lowly employee completing a support ticket. Just because the circumstances are different, they won't do much asking around and treat it the same as someone asking "can I give my account to my brother".
Both of which is equally horrible. Yes, you should be able to give what you bought to anyone, including your brother and it should automatically transfer to whoever you (or your country's laws) think should get it when you die.
I'm not saying this is a good thing, I'm just saying I thought everyone already knew this with Steam.