ylai@lemmy.ml to Gaming@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 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-square68fedilinkarrow-up158arrow-down13
arrow-up155arrow-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 · 9 months agomessage-square68fedilink
minus-squareNate Cox@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·9 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-up2·9 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.
minus-squareNoneYa@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoYou got a CD? Some of these boxes have just a piece of heavy paper with a code to download. Fortnite for Switch immediately comes to mind. The only benefit of this is for those who want to pay for cash or those who want a physical box to display.
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.
You got a CD? Some of these boxes have just a piece of heavy paper with a code to download. Fortnite for Switch immediately comes to mind.
The only benefit of this is for those who want to pay for cash or those who want a physical box to display.