It's legal to do this?


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Well, here's the Steam Subscriber agreement (which was agreed to when the account was set up)

http://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/

and and here's the part in question:

"You may not sell or charge others for the right to use your Account, or otherwise transfer your Account."

On your own head be it, it Valve find out the account will just get permanently disabled.

And yeah, before the moaning, it does suck sometimes.

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When you complete Steam's registration process, you create a Steam account ("Account"). Your Account may also include billing information you provide to us for the purchase of Subscriptions. You are solely responsible for all activity on your Account and for the security of your computer system. You may not reveal, share or otherwise allow others to use your password or Account. You agree that you are personally responsible for the use of your password and Account and for all of the communication and activity on Steam that results from use of your login name and password. You may not sell or charge others for the right to use your Account, or otherwise transfer your Account.

http://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/

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TOS = Terms of Service.

In other words, if they find out they will claim you violated your contract and then they'll lock your account out. If it has been sold then the other person will likely want a refund.

However, it is still possibly "legal" in the sense that police officers will be unlikely to come to your door for something like this.

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You cannot transfer a current account to someone else period.

if you want to gift an account it must be a new account to be setup up at a later time by the intended gift receiver

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You cannot transfer a current account to someone else period.

if you want to gift an account it must be a new account to be setup up at a later time by the intended gift receiver

Got it, thanks a lot!

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The question wasn't whether the user will be caught or whether it is "right" but whether it's "legal". Breaking the Terms of Service is essentially breaking a legal contract.

Funny how questions like this are all addressed in the Terms of Service which must be agreed to on signup.

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Like I stated above, how exactly would one transfer an existing account anyway without either the "Seller" or "Buyer" exposing some personal or financial information to be attached to the account after the "Sale" ?

I know I sure wouldn't take that risk even with someone I know

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It's pretty ridiculous that applications and games are being regarded as more of a "service" these days (as in you can't sell a lot of them on). In the good old days it was all just on physical media and there was no problem if you wanted to sell YOUR property.

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it never was your property, the media was just a license to use it

It's pretty ridiculous that applications and games are being regarded as more of a "service" these days (as in you can't sell a lot of them on). In the good old days it was all just on physical media and there was no problem if you wanted to sell YOUR property.
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And the media (A.K.A. license) can be sold, and thus transferred to someone else.

no... you have to agree to the End-User License Agreement (EULA) when you install (fast-forward to click "Yes")

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