What happens to your Steam games when you die?

[Ryan0r]

Sooo... I'm not very well and might not be around for too much longer. My Steam library, like many people's, is full of games I've bought but never installed or played. Can any of these be gifted? I'd like others to be able to make use of them, but seems to be the case that once they're activated on your accountant, regardless of installing, they're stuck there?

Any point in contacting Steam support to see if they can arrange something? (see that they haven't been played and make them giftable or something)

Seems a waste

 

[Ryan0r]

I believe there are places that offer a "digital will" type service, where you can provide all your login details and passwords to your social media and various other accounts and they can pass them on to nominated parties when you pass.

Think this may be the way to go if the games are all locked to the account. Can leave them all in waiting for my nephew. They'll all be out of date and unplayable (or the servers shut down) by the time he's of age obviously...

 

[Ryan0r]

Very sad to hear. Are you able to say what's wrong with you?

Cancer in my immune system (a rare, aggressive and resilient type of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma), it's not responded to 4 different types of chemotherapy and clinical trials, and is spreading. Options are now ...very limited indeed. It's in my chest, kidney, lung, stomach and collarbone.

 

[Ryan0r]

Sorry to hear but have you researched alternative medicine?

Meaning what? I've had the might of the UK and US pharmaceutical industries and their billions of pounds/dollars of research into cutting-edge immunotherapy etc, as well as my own research into diet and environmental causes. Are you suggesting I try lavender water or acupuncture?

 

[Ryan0r]

Sorry to hear that fella. We've lost 4 family members to cancer over the last few years and it almost feels like every other week we're hearing somebody or other has had a new diagnosis. Best wishes to you and family.

My sincere condolences, and thank you. It's sadly becoming more and more common, even among people like me who are otherwise fit and healthy, eat well etc. Cancer doesn't care or disriminate.

 

[Ryan0r]

I don't know what to say.

Many don't, don't worry about it buddy. Sometimes there aren't words for this crap.

 

[Ryan0r]

FYI there's a feature on Gmail that'll send a goodbye email if you don't login for x amount of time. I'm not saying you should do this, but if you have someone who you'd want to send an email to but don't want to send it whilst you're still here then it's an option.

I wasn't aware of this, thank you. A posthumous email is a bit creepy and Black Mirror perhaps

Edit: S2ep1, Be Right Back (IMDb), if anyone hasn't seen it. An example, like all Black Mirror episodes, of how technology may not be the solution to all our problems. Plus, Hayley Atwell.

 

[Ryan0r]

I can understand about your denial about billions being spent, but at the end of the day if this stuff doesn't work what will you do?

Which denial is that exactly? I'll keep trying as many cutting edge immunotherapy-based clinical drug trials as possible until it kills me. I'm less inclined to go with small-sample, anecdotal based semi-science, for dozens of reasons. (For the record, there's still no cold hard evidence about the definite benefits of cannabis oil etc). I trust professors, not internet 'experts'.

 

[Ryan0r]

Let's get this back to the matter at hand.

Edit: removed reference to a now-deleted post. Don't know what was said in the other one, but thank you mods.

 

[Ryan0r]

Thank you all sincerely for the support and kind words, it really does mean a lot.

I've sent a message to Valve (from this page: http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/people.html) to ask specifically about my original question, can un-played never-installed games be made giftable, and what am I allowed and not allowed to do with my account when I die, and can/do they enforce situations such as leaving your login details to someone. We'll see if Mr Newell gets back to me in time...