• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Less about enforcement than ease of transfer. If I’ve got a Steam account and you’ve got a Steam account and I die, Steam won’t let you transfer the licenses from my account to yours. You just have to maintain two independent accounts now - accounts with 2-factor authentication that you also have to maintain (so second cell numbers and emails, etc).

    Steam will simply let the administrative burden of juggling extra accounts take these licenses out of the pool.

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      6 months ago

      This. It’s absolutely already enforced. Valve simply will do nothing to enable access to a relative that comes asking and most of the currently existing accounts will just fade into the ether because in most cases relatives aren’t going to be particularly worried about recovering game accounts of all things when somebody passes away.