Technical support from Steam he confirmed to a user, who asked him the question out of mere curiosity, that it is not possible leave a legacy one’s accounts. Yes, in the event of death you have to take the toys to the grave and children or relatives have no right to access them.
The user in question asked technical support if it was possible to leave the Steam account by doing will. After all, wouldn’t it be nice for a child to restart a game you loved and find your cloud saves, perhaps with your saved characters and progress made? Wouldn’t you like a grandchild to discover your tastes by studying which titles you loved the most? Or that a virtual ghost of yours remained accessible in some way?
In practice, unfortunately, it is simply not possible to do this, as explained by Valve’s response, which should be considered official: “Unfortunately, Steam accounts and games they are not transferable. Steam Support cannot give you access to one account or merge its content with another. I regret to inform you that your Steam account cannot be transferred by making a will.”
Preservation issues
The complete digitalisation of video games is raising many problems in terms of preserving and protecting users’ purchases, who often discover that they do not have certain rights, even though they have paid. Take the recent case of The Crew for an example of what we mean. It is true that it is specified in the various licensing agreements that the player essentially owns nothing, apart from the right to install and use the software, but it is clear that certain issues cannot be resolved in such a simple way, at least in the collective perception.
Somehow we feel the need for one form of protection of what you pay, often at a high price, and that certain technological developments seem to work in the opposite direction compared to the needs of users, whether real or perceived. We will see in the future if there will be any developments from a legal point of view with respect to similar issues. In the meantime, let’s try to survive as long as possible.
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