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After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.world

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Saw a article on a large number of gamers being over 55 and then I saw this which I believe needs to be addressed in our current laws.

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[–] kernelle@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You seem to be missing my point, it is very clear what Valve thinks about this. It's literally the article above? And I get their point, but I'm arguing they don't have a legal leg to stand on.

In the EU there is legal precedent to give access to every account of a deceased person to their next of kin. T&C doesn't mean shit when it goes against consumer protection or civil laws.

When the T&C say you have to give your kidney to Gabe Newell it won't hold up in court.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

In the EU there is legal precedent to give access to every account of a deceased person to their next of kin.

I thought we were discussing whether or not a game purchased on Steam is something that the purchaser "owns" just like a physical game...

But if that precedent is there, it'll be interesting to see it play out. Steam users in the EU have definitely died before, but I guess nobody has ever put one in their will yet? Or tried to do an account transfer?

It's one thing to share the credentials, but I don't think we'll see Steam games going from one account (owned by a deceased person) being transferred into an existing account of someone named in the will.

...which, of course, would be perfectly possible to happen with physical games.