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ylai ( ylai@lemmy.ml )  to Gaming@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

GOG will let you bequeath your game library to someone else as long as you can prove you're actually dead

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GOG will let you bequeath your game library to someone else as long as you can prove you're actually dead

www.pcgamer.com

ylai ( ylai@lemmy.ml )  to Gaming@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
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Accounts aren't transferable but GOG is willing to make it happen, with a little help from the legal system.
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  • jet ( jet@hackertalks.com ) BannedBanned
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    Removed by mod

    • gramathy ( gramathy@lemmy.ml ) 
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      They’re outright stating the account itself is transferable if you are entitled to it, but that some content attached to the account won’t be, depending on EULA and transferability of individual software licenses.3

  • DebatableRaccoon ( DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca ) 
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    So long as I can prove I’m dead? I’m now going to add it to my will that my inheritees must yeet my corpse at GoG’s office door.

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      The title is wrong. It’s not about proving that the owner is dead (which is easy, you get a death certificate when a relative dies).

      It’s about proving that the person requesting access of the dead person account is actually the person legally receiving the dead person’s possessions (or GOG account specifically).

      • onlooker ( onlooker@lemmy.ml ) 
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        This comment should be somewhere near the top. My reaction was similar to DebatableRaccoon’s.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce ( Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml ) 
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    My ghost will haunt GoG’s corporate offices until they relent and transfer my games to the person who’s name I keep creepily spelling with frost on their mirrors & windows.

  • Destide ( sirico@feddit.uk ) 
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    Hi Gog I died it was really hard to write this from beyond the grave but please ensure my copy of creatures 2 makes it to little Jimmy

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    • grrgyle ( grrgyle@slrpnk.net ) 
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      Thank you for putting this in a way I can understand

  • butsbutts ( butsbutts@lemmy.ml ) 
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    yay great

  • Zerush ( Zerush@lemmy.ml ) 
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    In my testament I’ll share my GOG account data and password in all social networks and Wikipedia with a hand with extended middle finger out of the grave.

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