• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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    52 hours ago

    I’m going to have a difficult time proving anything when I’m dead. Could perhaps someone who survived me provide such proof?

    • nocturne
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      bequeath /bĭ-kwēᴛʜ′, -kwēth′/
      transitive verb
      To leave or give (personal property) by will.
      To pass (something) on to another; hand down.
      “bequeathed to their children a respect for hard work.”
      To give or leave by will; to give by testament; – said especially of personal property.

    • @Gimpydude
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      64 hours ago

      It just means you are leaving it to someone when you die. It’s the opposite of inheriting.

  • YeetPics
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    2710 hours ago

    How do I posthumously prove anything?

    Do I need a dead-man switch? Do they sell those?

    • @[email protected]
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      1810 hours ago

      I think a death certificate and your will are enough. Only one of the two is probably not enough.

      • @[email protected]
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        78 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      45 hours ago

      Correct me if I’m wrong: if you’re a linux gamer then GOG doesn’t support your platform, no?

      • @Gimpydude
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        44 hours ago

        Yes and no. They do have Linux binaries for games that support Linux, but GOG Galaxy is Windows. Heroic Launcher and others do support GOG.

    • @[email protected]
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      25 hours ago

      Call me when they add regional pricing, otherwise their sales are still way too expensive for me.

    • m-p{3}
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      36 hours ago

      I even rebought some games I really care about on GOG.

    • JackGreenEarth
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      2012 hours ago

      It was already better as the games it sells are free of Digital Restrictions Management

      • @[email protected]
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        67 hours ago

        If only they had a Linux client I might do that too, but the client they said they would come out with never apeared

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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        59 hours ago

        Funny how people like it when they actually provide value to you instead of only forcing an ad delivery/data collection tool on you, right?

  • @[email protected]
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    3013 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      15 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?

    • @[email protected]
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      1812 hours ago

      Aren’t all the games on GOG DRM-free? If so, there’s not much difference here than giving someone a USB drive filled with the installers.

      • @[email protected]
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        57 hours ago

        Pretty sure that’s the technicality GoG is using when they keep saying all this sort of stuff. Their terms of service have effectively the same language about purchases only being a license that Steam does.