• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz
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    4 months ago

    If steam did allow transfers this way, I can imagine it being a new type scam where people fabricate death documents to steal steam accounts.

  • fox2263@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    “And to my son, I bequeath my steam account - user is blah and password is blah”

    Checkmate steam

  • Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Life Pro Tip: Register an LLC to buy your steam games under. The LLC will never die and you can transfer ownership of the business entity while it retains control of the steam account.

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      4 months ago

      Less about enforcement than ease of transfer. If I’ve got a Steam account and you’ve got a Steam account and I die, Steam won’t let you transfer the licenses from my account to yours. You just have to maintain two independent accounts now - accounts with 2-factor authentication that you also have to maintain (so second cell numbers and emails, etc).

      Steam will simply let the administrative burden of juggling extra accounts take these licenses out of the pool.

    • Sidyctism@feddit.de
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      4 months ago

      The issue is that steam (like the other stores except gog) doesnt sell games, they sell licenses.