Tumbler wrote on Feb 20, 2012, 13:29:
Well valve certainly owns my steam games. There is no question that my access to the game I've paid for on steam are not mine at all but belong to Valve and Steam.
That actually raises a very interesting question. DO Valve and Steam own the games? Or are they still owned by their respective publishers? And if so, where does Steam fall in that?
There have been odd little comments about passing these accounts on to your children, like when you pass your stuff on to your children...what happens to these accounts?
Well, it's not like Steam knows that it's not you typing in that password, so...
Just understand what you're paying for. It's a rental. You're renting stuff from steam. It might be a very generous rental in your opinion but you have no rights. (at least nothing that has been upheld by the courts)
Right to re-sell, no. But I think if you were the recipient of an all-account ban for whatever reason, and Valve kills your ability to play your single-player games, that if you get yourself a lawyer, you're going to wind up with access to your games again. Because I'd love to see the EULA that says that whatever actions you take in one game means you get banned from every other possible game as well.
(Note: this is likely not true if you committed financial fraud, or are accused of doing so.)
I think the courts should rule in the favor of consumers in these cases and force all these companies to allow these licenses to be retitled and transferred.
Yeah, that'll never happen. Too many lobbyists greasing too many palms.
Creston