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It's part of the business model: anything sold to one account stays on that account, forever. There are no "used" games, no splitting-up of bundles etc.
Now, I could go on that the Warner Lego games are on sale "a lot", usually at the 4.99 pricepoint or slightly below. That only works for games that are still being sold, though. If you're referring to other games -- they probably get sales too.
A. Family share with him.
B. Buy games when on sale for his own library.
Now to inform you, and answer your questions.
1. You can't transfer/sell digital games once attached to the account, this have been a thing for over 15 years, and not something new either, this is also in the policy as well.
Steam isn't the only platform that does this either, there console market, mobile market, and other PC platforms as well.
2. You can get him Lego games whenever they do a sale, either checking on isthereanydeal.com for 3rd party retailers, or wait for it to go on sale on Steam. Majority of Lego games goes around $5 when they go on sale. Newest one such as 2018 and 2019 may still go around $10 ~ $20 when they go on sale.
3. You can contact support, but heads up, they can't help you with your issues as they only suggest what we have suggested already.
Steam support > My account > Data related to my account > Scroll to the bottom click on contact support.
But imagine you are a seller of a game and people are able to "move" their games when they don't want them any longer. Like selling them after they played them? Would you want them to be able to do that? No, you would not.
- hijack account
- transfer games
- yay, free games
Actually, it's designed for your case. Set your sons account to offline and both you and he can play.
Licenses are for 1 account. That always has been so, but with physical media that couldn't be enforced. Digitally, it can.
This is probably the biggest reason why transferring games isn't possible, or won't ever be possible. Companies don't like the black market.
This would create a black market for videogames and/or see pubs/devs lose out on revenue. I could buy a game for £50, finish it and then sell it under the table to another account for £25 - someone gets a cut-price bargain, I get half my money back and having played the game and the publishers lose out on a sale. It would probably obliterate the entire Steam Store in one day.
If something doesn't exist, there is usually a very good reason for it.
This ^
It would be used to sell digitial copies of games second hand.
Also, as with most of these issues you have to understand how things work.
You never really bought a copy of a game that you can do with as you please. You bought a licence that enables you to play a game on a specific account. Its not the same as buying a physical copy of something, legally you own nothing you are allowed to trade or sell on
I am on the same boat but our main focus is to transfer game progress / savegames from our account to our child's account.
We already are using the family sharing feature (+ playing offline whenever necessary to allow us playing to our favorite games while our children are playing to Lego games).
Does the official support can provide an answer to this question, is it feasible?
Games : Stray, Lego *, Worms WMV
Thank you.
Valve doesn't support games made by other developers. The games you listed are just regular single player games. The save games are just files on the local machine playing the game, it's not hard to move those files around. You can look them up individually. Or you can use something like https://www.gamesave-manager.com/
Save games generally won't be tied to a Steam account, game account, or a game license, unless it's some kinda of MMO/online only affair.
Its much more efficent then the old Family Share.
You now can create "Steam Families" with up to 6 members, adults and children and everyone in the family shares all their games with each other.
Best is there is NO playing restriction anymore. You can all play at the same time even if the games all belong to the same account and family shared games can now even be played offline, not just by the owner.
Also for your question, you could use a website like PC GAMING WIKI to look up where the save games for the games in question are located on your PC.
But many games lock their save games to the Steam account who created them so even if you copy them to your childs PC/save location they might not be reconized.