not very useful for something to be legal if they’re allowed to make it impossible to do.

Whatever happened to that ruling? It’s from 11 years ago. How would I go about selling my Steam games?

From reading the law, reselling of licenses is permitted but there’s nothing forcing software platforms to provide tools facilitating the process.

IANAL but I think this would make reselling a Steam account within the EU perfectly legal, regardless of Steam’s TOS, but otherwise they’re unaffected.

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Edit: Looking at some of the actual law cases which followed this ruling, user accounts and video games (along with basically any creative work) are not covered in any way.

Folks, this article was last updated July 2012. So for those of you moaning at people for pointing out you still cant because you can only do so by selling your account which steam does not allow…its been 11 years. When do the changes go into effect to allow you your high ground?

Anyone going to mention this was an article from 2012 ?

thank god for the EU

EU is the only bros defending worldwide tech rights.

Could I legally leave my Steam account to my son via a will? So that when I die it becomes his.

Really curious what the EU would say about something like Overwatch 1.

People bought a game, they then changed the game, made it free and shut down the systems for it and changed it to Overwatch 2.

Now the game I bought doesn’t exist anymore. I don’t own anything of what I had purchased.

This law was already overruled by other court decisions. EU Law is just a pain but basically you can’t.

That’s one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.

fuck steam

Yeah, this is a law Steam breaks since foundation, nobod really cares unfortunetly. They even have a fucking platform for it. Probably it’s built in a way this could be implemented in a week, whenever authorities would start annoying Valve with it.

Bunch of comedians.

Good guy valve about to change its tos to disallow this from happening.