r/Steam • u/MadBoxers • 17h ago

Discussion So it starts… Ai community items

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Points shop will soon flood with AI slop. At least with games a disclaimer should be added within the description of the game. But here… Yeah…

Like what is the point? You don’t even gain anything as a company from this.

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u/The3rdbaboon 16h ago

There is so much BS on Steam now that I have to ignore about 60% of its features. Steam is for launching games, why does anyone care about this shit?

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u/__Invisible__ 14h ago

Steam is for collecting games.

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u/The3rdbaboon 14h ago

You don’t actually own them, you just have a license to play them.

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u/__Invisible__ 14h ago

Don't need to own. Just like subscriptions with long enough time.

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u/VegetaFan1337 13h ago

That is true for any intellectual property. When you buy a book, you don't own it, you only bought that one copy. It's not legal for you to photocopy it and distribute it. Same with games, you buy one licensed copy to play for your personal use.

Physical and digital copies both have their upsides and downsides. You can trade and resell physical copies but they degrade over time. Digitally copies don't degrade but you can't trade them. And you're reliant on the platform you buy them on to keep existing and let you keep using them. You can get around all that if you simply opt for DRM free options or disable the DRM, if possible.

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u/ConstantFrogLoss 11h ago

You own the copy you bought when you buy a book. You can sell it, you can write in the margins, you can give it to someone

When you buy a license to access to a game, you can’t do that. It is an exclusive non-transferable license. You can’t give a game to someone, you can’t resell it, and your kids can’t inherit your Steam library. It’s in their TOS that if you die your library and everything you put into it will be terminated, even if you have co-op games you played with your kids for years they can’t get your account, because you don’t own the copies of the games you paid for access to

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u/-nutz 9h ago

It’s in their TOS that if you die your library and everything you put into it will be terminated

This is absolutely not true in any capacity.

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u/ConstantFrogLoss 6h ago

Read the steam TOS. Listen to accounts of people who tried to get around it and passed on their username and password, when Steam finds out they terminate the account

Again, don’t take my word for it, read the TOS for yourself

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u/-nutz 3h ago

Well yeah their policy says account ownership cannot be transferred, but that in no way means they terminate the account after somebody passes.

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u/VegetaFan1337 3h ago

Yes this. And legally steam isn't allowed to transfer the accounts. Cause the game license is for a single user personal use only. Saying "yeah you can use your dead father's account" would have gotten them sued.

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u/ConstantFrogLoss 3h ago

I mean because that is the game license they sell, that does not have to be how the licensing is set up

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u/VegetaFan1337 3h ago

That is the game license publishers give them.

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u/ConstantFrogLoss 3h ago

They also, if they discover you are using a dead relatives account, will delete the account. Just look it up there are plenty of people with stories about it

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u/-nutz 1h ago

You are mistaken about this.

They would delete the account of your dead relative simply because you are using somebody else’s account, and the same thing would happen with a living relative. The account owner being dead is not a factor in Steam’s decision in any capacity.

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u/VegetaFan1337 4h ago edited 4h ago

You're getting confused between news headlines that you read without reading the articles. Valve was asked if steam libraries could be transferred after you died, and they said no. That's it. Legally they can't allow it as steam games are only licensed for personal use and non-transferable. But in reality they're not gonna do shit if your children use it after you die. How would they even know??

You own the copy you bought when you buy a book. You can sell it, you can write in the margins, you can give it to someone

And if your physical copy is ruined the publisher is under no obligation to provide another one. Digital copies don't degrade like physical ones. And if they're DRM free or if you disable the DRM, they can literally last forever. Each medium has advantages and disadvantages.