Get the latest tech news
After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo
So much for your descendants posthumously clearing out that massive backlog...
Advertisement Eagle-eyed readers might notice a potential loophole, though, in the clauses regarding account transfers that are "specifically permitted by Valve." In a 2013 Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal article, author Claudine Wong writes that “digital content is transferable to a deceased user’s survivors if legal copies of that content are located on physical devices, such as iPods or Kindle e-readers.” But if that descendant wanted to download those games to a different device or reinstall them in the case of a hard drive failure, they'd legally be out of luck. "There is no reasonable, legal path for the preservation of digital-born video games," VGHF's then co-director Kelsey Lewin told Ars last year.
Or read this on Hacker News
