So much for your descendants posthumously clearing out that massive backlog...

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.

  • otp@sh.itjust.works
    41·
    4 months ago

    I think everyone is eager to have Steam let them “pass on” their games…but if that happens, there’ll probably be a lot of…

    • People reporting you (aka. the owner of your account) as dead so they can steal your games
    • People fighting over legitimately dead people’s Steam accounts
    • Games in a single Steam account getting divvied up amongst multiple people/accounts, which would be unnecessary overhead for Steam Support.

    It’d be nice if there were an easy solution, but I don’t think there is one.

    • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.worldOP
      15·
      4 months ago
      1. They’ll have to provide proof of death, which every other company has to deal with when people die.
      2. What’s one more thing that crappy family is going to do, not like they’re going to only fight over the stream account and not fight over the house, land, or cash.
      3. I’m going to be a little snarky here and say, “Won’t somebody think of the corporations!” Having to do some extra work isn’t going to bring down a billion dollar company.
      4. Who cares if it’s not a simple solution? A legal solution should be provided since we as gamers have paid for these games and we should have a avenue to pass them to our surviving kin or whoever we want.
    • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      A lot of the problems are already solved by probate/estate/etc.

      Like, if you had property at a bank, you’d need a death certificate which you’ll have requested tons of if someone you loved died… along with potentially some sort of proof that you were the rightful heir (Worst case, you’d establish this through probate, likely going to end up being a simple document). This would be more overhead for steam, but usually not complicated documents once everything is settled. As for splitting up the account, your steam account would probably be classified as a singular item and any attempts to break it up in a will would likely just end up being void.