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?
Honestly it’s bullshit, thousands of dollars of games have died with my brother-in-law, and it’s just another reason to pirate everything digital you can.
Don’t die without a will and don’t die without telling family important details/passwords.
Even for unexpected/accidental deaths, this has an easy fix: Put my bitwarden master password on my will.
You typically don’t get “ownership rights” when you purchase a game on Steam. You’ll typically be purchasing a licence to play the game, which could be taken away at any point. Some Steam games don’t include DRM after installation, and you’ll truly own those games after downloading them. (you can search for a game here, and find the DRM used) I’d recommend avoiding purchasing games on Steam whenever DRM is included if you want to own the game you’d buy, there are a lot of online stores that sell games without DRM.
Can same game be with DRM on steam and without DRM on other platform.
Yes, happens all the time on gog. They don’t have the same library of games but there is an overlap.
You typically don’t get “ownership rights” when you purchase a game on Steam. You’ll typically be purchasing a licence to play the game, which could be taken away at any point.
That is certainly what Valve thinks and writes in their TOS but if their store has a big button that says “BUY HALO” then courts may very well decide that you actually bought Halo.
And many countries have a strict legal definition of what buying means that cannot be overruled by some company’s TOS.That’s why the button says “purchase” instead of “buy” it’s been a bit since I used Steam, so I had to check to be sure. I think there’s a legal loophole there, but I’m not great with English.
I mean… They’re saying they can’t transfer games from one account to another right? But you could just put your account details in your will and anyone could login to your steam account and access your games, right?
Sure would be nice if they had the feature. But I’m not sure it’s such a big deal.
This is explicitly against their TOS. Whether or not you’ll be found out is a whole other matter
I can’t be arsed to read the ToS again, but is it also forbidden to just share an account between several people?
My brother and I opened up that account six years ago and except for the times I forgot to turn my internet off to not be kicked out of games while my brother plays one we never had problems. It would be really shitty if we got into trouble for this because the account is valued somewhere between 1.500 and 4.300€ and is the most expensive thing I own except for my PC.
I suppose they would only find out when the account is still in use after 130 years.
Or if they cared to check payment details and such.
What if I’m planning to live for more than 130 years, then what? Fuck big corporations /s
They can. I buy and gift games to my son all the time.
Gifting is not the same as transferring an already bought game to another account. Can you do that?
It the same mechanism. They can do it, they just don’t want to.
What’s a steam account and why would i want one?
It’s the biggest video game marketplace/launcher/DRM makers for PC. If you play video games on PC most games you buy would probably have to be through steam. Their parent company, Valve, is the only multi-billion dollar company I like because so far they have stayed pro-consumer.
😂 this platform continues to make me laugh. Everybody worships steam but somehow all other businesses are bad.
Yes as a long time PC gamer, I don’t understand why people act as if steam and valve are gods. Like ok cool it has the most games and whatever, but they’ve been going downhill. There’s so many random asset flips and porn games now, and their sales have been shit for years now. I remember games going on sale for 90% off during seasonal sales, and all the % off coupons they’d just randomly give out. That never happens now.
Yeah also billionaires are literally satan but Gabe Newell gets a pass for some reason lol
Treat people well, and people will like you.
Fine just create a digital corporation of your identity and assign rights to that instead. I hear they have the same rights as people.
IANAL, but I feel like if the heirs to an estate cared enough about the deceased’s Steam account enough to get the court involved, Steam wouldn’t have a leg to stand on. But that’s probably what it would take to get them to do the right thing.
I - ANAL
haha
Just tell us what it means, with the I attached of course
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If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing
(keep a copy of mr. goldburg)
