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

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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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[-] caut_R@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Too risky regarding personal info you might’ve overlooked IMO, maybe give it to a friend instead

And obviously it‘s against the ToS and might get the account banned but I assume you know that