another reason why the US wants people to hate china
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I've legit thought about this a lot. I'd like someone to be able to take over my Steam account given I have over a thousand purchased games on there.
I like how every gamer has a Steam library full of games they'll never play, but thinks that someone else might want to play them some day. It's like the modern day equivalent of a grandparent's attic.
I mean, my brother and I use Steam Family Sharing to access each others’ games. It’s a really generous policy nowadays. And if one of us died, I can see how being able to pass those games on to the other would be nice.
You're not wrong, but at the same time, there's that chance. I like older games, I would have been grateful to get a library like mine, lol, maybe someone else will.
Exactly. It is personal property and must be treated as such.
I'm planning to put my Steam account details in the same envelope as my will and bequeath it to my kids lol. Generational games library
Just don't tell Valve about it.
https://ohepic.com/steam-inheritance-why-you-cant-transfer-your-game-library/
This is why I always check to see if a game is listed on GoG before buying on steam. Even if it costs 15% more, it still feels worth it.
Yep that's why I said planning to ;). There's no practical way they can tell I'm dead, assuming people don't try to change the credit card on file or address or anything like that. Worst case scenario it's not that big a deal anyway. Even if they only get to play for like 6 months that's still pretty good in my books.
Things are in a funny state huh? I wonder what the economic impact of so much digital value disappearing into the void will be... Normally you can pass on stuff like DVD collections and other assets, but increasingly we seem to own nothing and assets die with us.
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Make sure you erase your sim save files before death
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You should be able to sell all your purchases.
Every digital storefront will do an update that will “unfortunately” be incompatible with the legacy media every 10-20 years.
Steam could, but it would be an extremely dangerous decision. One of their biggest competitive advantages is they they break users out of the console generation gaps.
Why buying a Steam Deck with all my old games (to say nothing of emulators) was more appealing than a Switch 2.
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Every store front, you sure? How will GOG or itch.io accomplish this if I downloaded the games into a private offline storage?
I really only meant the big corporate ones. The niche ones would continue being awesome.
If only there was a worthy heir to inherit my pornhub subscription
The curse of being so busy building a legacy worth passing on that you never took time to have someone to pass it on to?
It's not too late to start a box.
Kinda ballar ngl
It's almost like buying things means you own them.
A good start. We need a lot more of this.
An important one is passing on digital goods after the death of the store.
Maybe I want to pass a game to somebody else without me needing to die first?
Hell, why not even pass a game from my account on PSN to my Steam account or vice versa?
With legislation, much of this becomes reality. None of it is technically impossible. it's just nobody wants to do it. Publishers don't really care where you buy a game, they still got paid. The stores want to be the arbiters of all.
There is a caveat though with digital goods. The provider is incurring a cost so they naturally want to be the ones getting paid. If you buy the game on PSN, then transfer and download on steam, valve is loosing money while Sony got money but provided no service. The publisher doesn't care, the provider of the goods does very much.
Valve already allows you to buy a game elsewhere and get a Steam code though, so there's precedent there for how much it likely costs them (i.e. not much).
There is a limit that you're not allowed to sell codes directly cheaper than on Steam (which is fair enough), but most of my Steam library is from Humble Bundles and the like.
It's certainly not costing any of them 30% to provide downloads.
You could of course have fair use limits on the movement of your games, so you're not transferring them about just because you can't be arsed to go upstairs to your PC or whatever.
And not just games. Music and video should also have better ownership rights.
I would bet humble bundles pays a fee to provide steam keys.
Every single game download costs valve ~0¢ but all of them together costs them millions.
The current system is not fair and reasonable to consumers. Allowing free transfers wouldn't be fair to the stores.
I for sure know which version I prefer, but I'm just saying there is a reasonable, good faith argument against free/unlimited transfers
So I mean for most accounts I'm aware of you could just give someone your login credentials and you can practically change ownership (name, contact info, etc.)from the account.
Is this a bigger deal in China as accounts are tied to some form of ID?
Hopefully, I will someday be able to donate my library to a...library. While most of my catalog probably won't interest people, there is still a small chance of passing down my culture to future generations.
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