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After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo (arstechnica.com)

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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.

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[–] otp 1 points 8 months ago

In the EU there is legal precedent to give access to every account of a deceased person to their next of kin.

I thought we were discussing whether or not a game purchased on Steam is something that the purchaser "owns" just like a physical game...

But if that precedent is there, it'll be interesting to see it play out. Steam users in the EU have definitely died before, but I guess nobody has ever put one in their will yet? Or tried to do an account transfer?

It's one thing to share the credentials, but I don't think we'll see Steam games going from one account (owned by a deceased person) being transferred into an existing account of someone named in the will.

...which, of course, would be perfectly possible to happen with physical games.