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[STEAM][PRESS]After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo


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[/url] With Valve's Steam gaming platform
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this year, more and more aging PC gamers may be considering what will happen to their vast digital game libraries after they ****. Unfortunately, legally, your collection of hundreds of backlogged games will likely pass into the ether along with you someday.

The issue of digital game inheritability gained renewed attention this week as
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quoted a Steam support response asking about transferring Steam account ownership via a last will and testament. "Unfortunately, Steam accounts and games are non-transferable" the response reads. "Steam Support can't provide someone else with access to the account or merge its contents with another account. I regret to inform you that your Steam account cannot be transferred via a will."

This isn't the first time someone has asked this basic estate planning question, of course. Last year, a Steam forum user
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as saying, "Your account is yours and yours alone. Now you can share it with family members, but you cannot give it away."

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