Steam: Confirmed, you cannot inherit your account from anyone

The role of digital games is often discussed as something beneficial, even a “rich people’s issue,” because they can pay for it in dollars. But what will happen the day we are no longer here to play? Is it possible to inherit my Steam library to someone else?

Well, if you are one of those who have that doubt, we will solve it for you and in the least painful way possible. It happens that you cannot leave your Steam account as an inheritance to anyone. Come on, it’s illegal and it comes in the terms and services that you accept when you register your account in Valve’s digital distribution service.

Now, you can’t inherit someone’s account with a backlog made up of games you bought in a summer or winter sale. But what about passing your username and password to someone else? Well, that’s also not allowed. It’s not like they’re going to put you in jail, but if they find out, they’ll suspend your account – we assume for a while.

Likewise, it is not acceptable for you to pass your account password in writing to someone. Those terms and conditions that you sign are full of fine print so that you don’t think about sharing your digital games with someone else.

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Steam is unlikely to catch you in the game, but it has ways to catch you

On the Internet, it is most common to sell accounts with digital games because users think that: they are their video games and they can do whatever they want with them, however, this is not the case, especially when you sign user agreements. It may seem like a joke, but there are many legal actions that we do not even take into account and there they are in front of us.

For example, if we pass a Steam account to a friend, they can bypass the two-step authentication brake. Also, it won’t let you start the game if it is already running on another computer at the same time. There are, indeed, many ways to track information and data.

We often forget that those digital games we pay for are not “exactly ours” and, finally, there will always be many fine print that will end up harming us legally. What do you think of this situation? Follow the conversation through our Discord and don’t miss our news at Google news.