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Gotta have kids for that
Between my birthday of 1/1/1901 and unlicensed game inheritance, shit is going to go down in the next 50 years. We’ll have AI legal reps for powerful firms requesting a statement of all software licenses by the deceased, challenging them, and then having a court order the rest null.
I hate that I will be right about that.
Will valve allow accounts to exist indefinitely? Will they create an expiration policy, like accounts being closed after 100 years
Steam isn’t going to exist until you die anyway. At some point they will exitscam
Do they check? Or can i just give my password to my homie in a letter
"Dear homie,
if you are reading this, it means that i’m on the long path to meet with master Kaio to train my ass off to death in the afterlife. Until we meet again, this is my user and pass of my steam account.
PS: i didn’t bought the porno VR games. Someone gifted them to me.
Your bro in eternity,
Siegfried"
Bro, but what about the credit card receipt for porno VR games, signed by Siegfried? What about the warranty card for the porno VR games, filled out by Siegfried? What about the book “Porno VR Games and Me (This Sort of Thing is my Bag, Baby!)” by Siegfried?
You just keep the wishlist private and zero it out. You got the answers to those questions. That’s private info your bro rusted you to die with.
“And to my son, I bequeath my steam account - user is blah and password is blah”
Checkmate steam
The article goes into that and states password sharing is against the Eula so technically they can kick you off the service if they find out… IF they find out wink wink
I mean it is not sharing if you are dead, it is bequeathing
I bequeath deez nutz to Jo mama
Old and busted: Pretending someone’s alive for their Social Security check
New hotness: Pretending someone’s alive for their Steam account
4 generations later: “I’ve inherited my father’s steam account just as he inherited it from his father and so on. The library has grown ever larger, and yet so many remain untouched. The summer sales have sustained my forefathers and yet I feel hollow. Each year, more games are added to this historic account, but each year brings more regret as the purchases go untouched. I shall make a promise to myself: finish the extensive library, honor my family, complete the library. But first, some more Counter Strike.”
How thwy wanna find out though? Not like my computer can snitch that part (yet).
blah!@birthday-ssn
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Who’s notifying Valve someone with an account has died? Link the dead person’s account to a steam family and enjoy the inheritance.
This isn’t a huge deal yet but I suspect that if it becomes a huge deal we might see companies start trying to verify their oldest accounts.
You’re account is tied to an email address, you just give the email address as well.
If you will a steam account to someone, there is a chance that there are disputes/claims for the account that need to be settled in court.
So sad I won’t be able to bequeath “Fifty Shades of Fur - Gay Erotic Visual Novel 18+” to my grandchildren
Bury me with my backlog.
Assuming that the world continues to exist in a way that lets me have a steam account at the time of my natural lifespans average end (another… 46 years):
My steam library grows at a slower rate than my mass storage has, and I’m quite confident that one will be able to fit my entire steam library as it currently is on a normal and affordable drive in at most 15 years.
With those two facts in play I can remain confident in my ability to crack everything I own (assuming I even want everything) and safely store it for at-will passing down to as many people as I want.
But thanks for the reminder to not blindly trust you, Valve. Always useful to have those.
just don’t die
We did it, lemmy!
I really feel like this won’t/can’t be enforced.
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.
Does this apply to developer accounts? Because if so this would be dumb as fuck.
I’d argue that it’s dumb as fuck either way.
Does steamworks not have a notion of a parent organization or enterprise? That’s what most other design and development tools do.
If someone leaves, the parent enterprise remains, and new people can be added to the enterprise and can be granted rights over the content.
Rare steam L
What they dont know wont hurt you
But I want to hurt them, a lot
Then do it anonymously
Then come fucking stop me
Bring back big boned Gaben
His heart got smaller too
