After you die, your Steam video games might be caught in authorized limbo

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With Valve’s Steam gaming platform approaching the US ingesting age this yr, increasingly getting old PC avid gamers could also be contemplating what is going to occur to their huge digital recreation libraries after they die. Sadly, legally, your assortment of lots of of backlogged video games will doubtless cross into the ether together with you sometime.

The difficulty of digital recreation inheritability gained renewed consideration this week as a ResetEra poster quoted a Steam assist response asking about transferring Steam account possession through a final will and testomony. “Sadly, Steam accounts and video games are non-transferable” the response reads. “Steam Help cannot present another person with entry to the account or merge its contents with one other account. I remorse to tell you that your Steam account can’t be transferred through a will.”

This is not the primary time somebody has requested this primary property planning query, after all. Final yr, a Steam discussion board consumer quoted an identical response from Steam assist as saying, “Your account is yours and yours alone. Now you’ll be able to share it with members of the family, however you can’t give it away.”