Is it possible to safely "give away" a Steam account to a stranger? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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I'm pretty sure I'm done with Steam gaming, haven't launched a game in almost a year, and generally want to move away from DRM.
So I had the idea I could just "give away" my Steam account.

Create a new email address without personal info attached, tie it to the Steam account, remove my payment info from Steam and just post the email and password somewhere (maybe here) for the first lucky person to claim.

Would that be safe, or is it possible to recover the changes I made before and get access to my private info? Or is there a better way to give away my games?

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[-] sinokon@feddit.de 27 points 4 weeks ago

Be careful and double / triple check on https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata what information is stored on your account, especially chats, payment information, purchases, subscriptions and so on. But I agree regarding TOS if they ever find out the account will be locked most likely.