{"id":281964,"date":"2024-05-24T08:13:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T15:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=333013"},"modified":"2025-07-01T16:26:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:26:34","slug":"where-will-your-steam-games-go-when-they-die-apparently-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/where-will-your-steam-games-go-when-they-die-apparently-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Where will your Steam games go when they die? Apparently, nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s not a very happy thought, but we will all die. Even things we take for granted like the planet, the stars, and the universe. It&#8217;s not something we have to worry about, because it will be a long time from now, but it&#8217;s normal to think, what will happen to our things? And <strong>among our possessions, we can&#8217;t overlook one of the most valuable<\/strong>. Our Steam account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Resetera user has written to Steam support <a href=\"https:\/\/www.resetera.com\/threads\/to-anyone-who-is-curious-no-you-cannot-transfer-your-steam-account-via-a-will-you-can-only-take-your-games-to-your-graves.875634\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">to ask exactly this<\/a>. <strong>&#8220;Can I put my Steam library in my will?&#8221;<\/strong>. And the answer has been very clear. Steam has said that they are sorry, but no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Steam Endless Replayability Fest 2024: Official Trailer\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/raIxJEFtgrA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reason is very simple. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/get-these-games-for-free-on-steam-and-epic-games-store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">When we buy a game on Steam<\/a>, we are buying a game with DRM. <strong>We don&#8217;t own the game, but we buy the digital license to play it<\/strong>. That&#8217;s why they can take it away from us or even make it disappear from our computer. Technically, we don&#8217;t own the game. Therefore, we cannot share them with other people: they are not, in themselves, ours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is ours, however, is our Steam account. That&#8217;s why we can include our Steam account in our will. <strong>This means giving away our username, password, and two-factor authentication, so that person can access our account<\/strong>. Certainly less ideal than giving them our library for their account, but that&#8217;s the terrible thing about the digital age: you will own nothing and be happy.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Steam\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/3047d89c-96d0-11e6-8546-00163ed833e7\/4018433091\/steam-Download-Steam.jpg\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Steam<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/steam.en.softonic.com\/?ex=RAMP-2046.0\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--3.90\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"3.90\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"3.9\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\">3.9<\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\">Steam is the ultimate platform for video game and software lovers.<\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/steam.en.softonic.com\/?ex=RAMP-2046.0\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about what will happen to our belongings when we die is normal, and apparently, they won&#8217;t go anywhere: because we don&#8217;t own our Steam games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9268,"featured_media":281965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1018,1015],"tags":[6634,1056],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-281964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-news","tag-drm","tag-steam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312998,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281964\/revisions\/312998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281964"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=281964"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=281964"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=281964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}