Valve can terminate your Steam account for violating the agreement, and because your account is non-transferable, you cannot sell or give away your games or account to anyone else.
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Account termination means loss of access to all games, content, and wallet balance associated with that account, with no ability to transfer those assets to another person or account.
The updated agreement no longer explicitly discloses that Steam Wallet funds held by Japanese users will expire six months after being added, or that expiration dates can be reviewed in the Steam Wallet. The removal of this disclosure eliminates the transparency mechanism previously available to Japanese subscribers regarding fund expiration timelines and monitoring options. Japanese law may still impose expiration requirements on stored funds regardless of contractual disclosure, but the agreement no longer notifies users of this expiration mechanism.
View change record →This new provision explicitly prohibits account and subscription transfers, establishing a hard contractual restriction on account ownership portability.
View full change record →If Valve terminates your account for any conduct violation, you lose access to your entire digital library and any Steam Wallet funds, with no mechanism to transfer those assets to a new account or another person.
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"Your Account, including any information pertaining to it (e.g.: contact information, billing information, Account history and Subscriptions, etc.), is strictly personal. You may therefore not sell or charge others for the right to use your Account, or otherwise transfer your Account, nor may you sell, charge others for the right to use, or transfer any Subscriptions other than if and as expressly permitted by this Agreement.Excerpt from Steam's Subscriber Agreement
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The account non-transferability and termination provisions interact with emerging digital asset and digital inheritance frameworks in the EU and various US states.
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Account termination means loss of access to all games, content, and wallet balance associated with that account, with no ability to transfer those assets to another person or account.
If Valve terminates your account for any conduct violation, you lose access to your entire digital library and any Steam Wallet funds, with no mechanism to transfer those assets to a new account or another person.
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