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Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die(www.techspot.com)

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If you cannot pass on your ownership rights to your purchased games to your children, then you cannot pass on your copyright either, I guess?

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cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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That’s ridiculous. You should be free to give away, sell, or trade digital games just like you can with physical copies.

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catloaf@lemm.ee
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In the EU, you can.

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Reawake9179@lemmy.kde.social
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But only the whole account, or did that change

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morhp@lemmynsfw.com
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Transferring the whole account after you die is what this post is about.

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catloaf@lemm.ee
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Not the whole account, only individual games.

Last I heard, Steam hadn’t actually implemented that functionality yet, though.

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Agree, even more so with the private cloud data. If your loved one dies and you want to visit multiplayer you created together in open world builders it would be shitty to take that away from them. Eg: Father and son played Minecraft together on LAN server or whatever (If that even is a thing)

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