Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die

Shawn Eary said:

I Hope they do, because the Steam Proton Wine emulation layer sometimes works better on old MS Windows games than the actual Windows OS does...

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I'm not sure how buying Valve would help there? Proton is already open source, and Microsoft is free to add a Proton-based compatibility thing if they wish (there was a "Wine for Windows" many years ago with the goal of doing just this, when the support for 16-bit apps was being dropped from Windows and there were still enough people were wanting to use.)

I can't take this as a positive... it took almost no time after they bought Blizzard for Battle.net to "mysteriously" start having problems under Wine -- and it was intentional! It sets DOS ATTRIBUTES on files specifically to detect Wine handling them more accurately than a real copy of Windows with NTFS filesystem does, and would intentionally crash when it detected this. They cut back on this some because it was making some people's copy of Battle.net crash in Windows too, and wine got patches to work around it as well.

Do you think they would try to switch the Steam Deck to some copy of Windows? Might come as a rude surprise to users given that their current SteamOS actually runs all sorts of games better than Windows does.

MaxYaffe said:

Can't I even donate them to the public library like I do my books?

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Maybe, but I'm guessing you may have to run them past the republican congress first!

So you are saying is that some noobs have given their real names and other private data to Steam/Valve.
"According to them, an account being in use past the length of a person's average lifespan could trigger investigations by Steam"
INVESTIGATIONS by Steam past the length of a person's AVERAGE lifespan! What is this dystopian abomination?

Guess I'll just leave all my logins, including my emails, in my will. FU very much Valve and Gabe.