ylai@lemmy.ml to Gaming@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months agoYou can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a willwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10
arrow-up114arrow-down1external-linkYou can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a willwww.pcgamer.comylai@lemmy.ml to Gaming@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square44fedilink
minus-squareNate Cox@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·7 months agoPhysical media today isn’t really much better though, increasingly frequently all a disk gets you is a license to activate a digital copy anyways, with a “must be online for first play” requirement.
minus-squareFigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoThat’s exactly how I ended up with a steam account. Bought a Civ V cd and the game isn’t on the cd, just an installer for steam and a key.
Physical media today isn’t really much better though, increasingly frequently all a disk gets you is a license to activate a digital copy anyways, with a “must be online for first play” requirement.
That’s exactly how I ended up with a steam account. Bought a Civ V cd and the game isn’t on the cd, just an installer for steam and a key.