Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die

[Shawn Eary]

This kind of thing wasn't a problem back when we primarily used cartridges and floppy disks. I miss the 80's. Yeah, everyone was smoking too much and eating TONS of hyper processed food, but back in the 80's, people were actually nice to each other. In the 80's, we also didn't have Starbucks addicts everywhere.

 

[Shawn Eary]

Well folks it can get worse. Rumours M$ is thinking of buying Valve. STEAM won't work without NPU in the future.

I Hope they do, because the Steam Proton Wine emulation layer sometimes works better on old MS Windows games than the actual Windows OS does...

 

[MaxYaffe]

Can't I even donate them to the public library like I do my books?

 

[hwertz]

I Hope they do, because the Steam Proton Wine emulation layer sometimes works better on old MS Windows games than the actual Windows OS does...

I'm not sure how buying Valve would help there? Proton is already open source, and Microsoft is free to add a Proton-based compatibility thing if they wish (there was a "Wine for Windows" many years ago with the goal of doing just this, when the support for 16-bit apps was being dropped from Windows and there were still enough people were wanting to use.)

I can't take this as a positive... it took almost no time after they bought Blizzard for Battle.net to "mysteriously" start having problems under Wine -- and it was intentional! It sets DOS ATTRIBUTES on files specifically to detect Wine handling them more accurately than a real copy of Windows with NTFS filesystem does, and would intentionally crash when it detected this. They cut back on this some because it was making some people's copy of Battle.net crash in Windows too, and wine got patches to work around it as well.

Do you think they would try to switch the Steam Deck to some copy of Windows? Might come as a rude surprise to users given that their current SteamOS actually runs all sorts of games better than Windows does.

 

[scavengerspc]

Can't I even donate them to the public library like I do my books?

Maybe, but I'm guessing you may have to run them past the republican congress first!

 

[Gastec]

So you are saying is that some noobs have given their real names and other private data to Steam/Valve.
"According to them, an account being in use past the length of a person's average lifespan could trigger investigations by Steam"
INVESTIGATIONS by Steam past the length of a person's AVERAGE lifespan! What is this dystopian abomination?

 

[pcnthuziast]

Guess I'll just leave all my logins, including my emails, in my will. FU very much Valve and Gabe.

 

[ChrisH1]

Not saying young people never die, and my sympathies if someone close to you has, but as a percentage thing if you're young, the likelihood of you dying is relatively low, and the probability that any game you buy now still being playable by the time you die given hardware and software advancement is even lower. If you did die, the likelihood is that your friends who you might want to leave your account to, already have the game.

If you're old, chances are in the general scheme of things you're unlikely to be playing that many games in the decade or so close to your death, but if you are, the total value would most likely be a small part of your estate.

Again, there might be exceptions but they will really be exceptions. I can't see this as being a serious problem.

 

[Bamda]

I am immortal, so I am not affected by this.

 

[scavengerspc]

I am immortal, so I am not affected by this.

Ah, a big shot. Well, the rest of us don't have that luxury.
But, congrats anyway.

 

[Gastec]

Ah, a big shot. Well, the rest of us don't have that luxury.
But, congrats anyway.

The rest of us have inside us blood of kings!