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.
Or you can just give your password to your loved ones. Valve can’t stop you from doing that. They aren’t god, they make their billions off loot boxes.
I’m sick of this stupid fucking talking point. Steam doesn’t own your email address or credentials. They don’t verify ownership or tie someone’s identity to an account. You can just give your fucking credentials away and they won’t know or care. Shut the fuck up about this already.
Well glad you have your death date all planned, you’ll never unexpectedly die before that date, have your will and trust set, are having your will and trust legally updated ever time you update your password for all your digital media accounts.
Not all of us do and in lieu of relying on individuals to have this shit set up and hope nothing goes wrong I’ll continue to advocate that we need a legal avenue to ensure legally purchased digital goods are able to be passed on after death and no I’m not going to shut the fuck up about but you’re more than free to continue to not give fuck.
You only need to pass access to your password manager, which already includes everything. Since you should already have a physical recovery information card printed for your password manager in a drawer somewhere, it would be found anyway.
I don’t see the issue. The account is tied to an email address with which you can reset the password. With a death certificate you can transfer access to the email account to a different person, reset the login password, change the email address it’s tied to and change the banking details.
So the Steam account can be transferred, they just don’t do it for you.Google has a feature that lets you automatically send your account login info to an address of your choosing if you haven’t logged in in over, say, three months. If I croak unexpectedly, my family will eventually receive access to my email and will be able to subsequently access anything that email was tied to.
Not a huge fan of Google in 2024 but this feature is worthwhile.