You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else: Valve lets you access your Steam account at will.

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You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else: Valve lets you access your Steam account at will.

ResetEra user delete12345, first reported by Ars Technica, made an interesting discovery about the Steam library.

Delete12345 asked Steam support about the virtual scenario and got a clear, professional, but very disappointing response. "Unfortunately, Steam accounts and games are not transferable," the support representative explained. "Steam Support does not allow other users to have access to an account or to merge access to another account.

"I regret to inform you that your Steam account can not be transferred via Will."

Well, I was trying to suggest that you could give your designated heir a Steam login and password without involving a lawyer — except for a sudden tragedy or a knife-out-style scenario where your grasping heirs are at each other's throats trying to secure your property, which is completely false." It should work well for you. But it turned out to be a flagrant violation of the steam subscriber agreement. 

"You may not disclose, share, or let others use your password or account, except as specifically authorized by Valve," the document states. We also refer to password sharing as a "breach of this confidentiality agreement" if it is not clear enough.

So you heard it loud and clear, people. If you don't want to assume the deadly sin of breaking the iron law of the end-user license agreement, just as you slip this deadly coil and cut your soul from God, grace, and Gabe Newell forever, you have to fallow that library after you leave. 

But if your descendants insist on taking your very same taking1,500Counter-Strike2AWP with some kind of ugly doodle Dragon on it, slip your problem and use your account username and password (which you have definitely read many times) in violation of the sacred EULA you have signed. And), I think it's your prerogative.

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