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- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) 11•7 hours ago
How am I supposed to prove I am dead if I am dead? 🤔
I can just leave USB drives with all the offline installers in a box. Then I don’t have to prove shit!
- averyminya ( @averyminya@beehaw.org ) 3•6 hours ago
I feel like all it would be would be giving the account via your will, then having that transferred through an attorney, who has a copy of/access to your death certificate.
- MonkderVierte ( @MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ) 4•6 hours ago
And why is there a condition? Can’t gift the whole library to someone?
- YeetPics ( @YeetPics@mander.xyz ) 17•11 hours ago
How do I posthumously prove anything?
Do I need a dead-man switch? Do they sell those?
- Wrufieotnak ( @Wrufieotnak@feddit.org ) 11•11 hours ago
I think a death certificate and your will are enough. Only one of the two is probably not enough.
- CosmicTurtle0 ( @CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 4•9 hours ago
Wills aren’t required and not everyone will have one.
I think the best course of action is to have a trust set up and have all of your assets under the trust. That’s how my attorney set up my end of life tasks. It saves you problems with probate and taxes while also giving you flexibility if you want to change things.
- tacosanonymous ( @tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ) 4•9 hours ago
What if I swear on god FR FR?
- Linux is for pussies ( @Banichan@dormi.zone ) 10•12 hours ago
How can I prove that I’m dead if I’m dead? The fuck?
- SharkAttak ( @SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org ) 3•6 hours ago
No, anything but that.
- DebatableRaccoon ( @DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca ) 3•8 hours ago
I see what you did there.
- Darkenfolk ( @Darkenfolk@dormi.zone ) 6•10 hours ago
Postmortem selfie with the boys.
- conorab ( @conorab@lemmy.conorab.com ) 20•14 hours ago
I’m guessing Steam decided against being able to leave your games to somebody else when you die because of how most EULAs I’ve read work: they are often non-transferrable licence and so in most cases the store has no choice in the matter. Now GOG are willing to say they will do what they can given this limitation, but I can see why Steam wouldn’t: it’s a whole lot of work for realistically not much benefit. It’s probably easier for Valve to gift the same games over to the new person.
- averyminya ( @averyminya@beehaw.org ) 1•6 hours ago
And from the corporate side of things, it’s not very business savvy to miss out on an entire generation or two of gamers buying games.
If you and I are parents and our Steam library has 1,000+ games, our child likely wouldn’t buy those games. But if they need to create a steam account for themselves, now those games are back on the table, securing future revenue for Valve.
There’s workarounds sure, like family sharing or just ignoring the ToS and sharing passwords. I think the real tell will be for our grand/great grandchildren, for once we are 100 or 120 then Valve will probably start wondering… Is averyminya really still alive and kicking, or did he share his library?
- Soup ( @Soup@lemmy.cafe ) 4•11 hours ago
Out of the loop here… what’s GOG?
- m-p{3} ( @mp3@lemmy.ca ) 3•7 hours ago
gog.com (acronym of Good Old Games), an alternative store where you can buy DRM-free games.
- Zoboomafoo ( @Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net ) 4•8 hours ago
Your answer in the form of a meme
- egonallanon ( @egonallanon@lemm.ee ) 12•11 hours ago
Competitor to steam, it’s selling points are DRM free games releasing old games in playable States for modern machines. They also sell contemporary games.
- Soup ( @Soup@lemmy.cafe ) 3•11 hours ago
Ahhh. Got it.