It’s a lot easier to just share a login…
Sure, but if you ever get locked out I assume support will want to verify your identity and if you can’t do that because the owner is dead, they will probably deny you (and maybe even shutdown the account if you can prove the owner is dead) But if you can transfer the account to another person that would be nice.
Title of PCGamer’s article is misleading, they want a court order to do it. Proof of death is not enough.
“In general, your GOG account and GOG content is not transferable. However, if you can obtain a copy of a court order that specifically entitles someone to your GOG personal account, the digital content attached to it taking into account the EULAs of specific games within it, and that specifically refers to your GOG username or at least email address used to create such an account, we’d do our best to make it happen. We’re willing to handle such a situation and preserve your GOG library—but currently we can only do it with the help of the justice system.”
They have to do that anyway. Court orders overrule a company’s policies in most (all?) legal systems.
The fuck do they mean they will try?
“Oh no there’s no way we could possibly break out of these invisible shackles we put on ourselves”
It’s legal speech for “we want to however if we straight out say we’re going to do it no studio is going to want to release games on our platform”
No, it is legal speech for “we think you want that and we think you are dumb enough to believe we can actually deliver that so lets give it a try to pretend we are doing that”.
I can’t even imagine 100 years from now when gamers are dying every day.
Right now I feel like I can change an account name and email pretty easily and nobody would care. But when that account is 130 years old, someone might start asking questions
You must be quite young or sheltered if you haven’t had a few gamers you knew die already. Not everyone dies of old age.
I think the opposite, if you want to adjust your jumping to judgemental conclusions. I’m old and social. I grew up in a place where nobody gamed or had computers.
Nearly all of the close people in my life did not/do not game. My circle is outdoorsy or go out somewhere people I guess. We have kids and families and precious little free time. I’ve never had friends come over to game or however that goes. I guess I could seek out people who want to game with me, but if someone has free time at the same time as I do, we’d rather do something else.
Hope this broadens your perspective of people.
Hope this broadens your perspective of people.
Aren’t you the one who generalized your situation and assumed most gamers are either young or not that common, so it would take 100 years until it becomes a daily occurrence for gamers to die? It’s already a daily occurrence today.
What if I send em the video of my suicide? Would it be enough?
Nope, you have to make an appearance in court and provide documentation of your death.
That would be kinda hard I guess
