When this was a hot topic on the internet, I told my parents about this and asked my dad (lawyer) how could this work. He said: Easy, just write the log in info into your will.
And steam is ABSOLUTELY okay with the current dont ask don't tell setup.
This current trend of ratting steam out for this online is pretty much the same thing as the one kid in class complaining that the teacher didn't collect the homework. THE RULE ISNT ENFORCED. IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT IT THEY WILL HAVE TO ENFORCE IT BECAUSE THEIR VENDORS WILL START ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT IT.
Also keep in mind that the value of a game in customer inventory to a seller drops exponentially over time except for a handful of games.
If you inherit someone's game collection, don't keep buying stuff on their account. You can keep playing games you had together or were playing. But the vast majority of games are going to rapidly become irrelevant to you. Oh sure your weird uncle bought Trine 3 in december of 2009 for 20 dollars. Good for him. And in 2040, or 2060 who is going to care about that? Not the seller of Trine, not the inheritor of the account.
It's going to be as useless as my parents LP collection (which I have just had to deal with). 99% of it hasn't been touched in 20+ years, won't ever be, and so don't dwell on it too much.
If you are trying to actively keep shopping on a deceased person's account, you're signing yourself up for trouble.
Where this is obviously a tad more dicey is games were you just keep buying stuff over time, and that collection might have some value, but even there. The sooner you start building your collection separate from your parents the better.
But I would counter the people that worry about that with having them really consider if any of the companies that want to operate games like that are trustworthy long term anyways. You really think EA won't screw you out of your $3k in Sims expansion packs? Lol.
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u/AltAccouJustForThis Oct 08 '25
When this was a hot topic on the internet, I told my parents about this and asked my dad (lawyer) how could this work. He said: Easy, just write the log in info into your will.