Accounts aren't transferable but GOG is willing to make it happen, with a little help from the legal system.
  • YeetPics@mander.xyzdeleted by creator
    26·
    2 years ago

    How do I posthumously prove anything?

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

  • John_CalebBradberton@lemmy.world
    161·
    2 years ago

    Why can’t they just take Linux users seriously. It’s what’s keeping me from buying more of their games and using them more.

    • Nik282000@lemmy.ca
      7·
      2 years ago

      Market share. I know it’s a meme but seriously, push Linux on people who will benefit from it.

      My girlfriend is totally non-technical but I set her up with an old laptop running Debian and after a few months she loved it. No ads, no popups selling cloud storage, no forced reboots, and it doesn’t crash. That’s one more browser hitting websites without Windows in it’s useragent string.

  • Anticorp@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
    12·
    2 years ago

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

    • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 years ago

      Duh. You can record yourself one of those “if you’re seeing this…” videos, and then when you die you just email it to them

    • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
      7·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • frigidaphelion@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 years ago

    I have no idea what GOG even is but im seeing it as a steam competitor in headlines lately. What’s going on that’s causing it to come up a lot?

    • shinratdr@lemmy.ca
      17·
      2 years ago

      GOG is “Good Old Games”, a digital distribution service for PC games run by CD Projekt Red, developers of The Witcher and Cyberpunk. It mostly focuses on old games from the Win95/98 days that have been patched/fixed by their in-house dev team to run on modern Windows releases. However, it also sells all CD Projekt Red titles and seems to be expanding to just be a regular PC game distribution service.

      It’s being talked about a lot right now because unlike Steam, EGS, and other stores they sell you a DRM-free download. Because of recent legislation in California, companies are required to use clearer language when they aren’t selling you something that you own forever, they are instead selling you a license to access something.

      This has reignited discussion on digital ownership, Steam, and what happens if you die or Steam shuts down/is acquired and you lose your non-transferable access to the games in your library. GOG is the ideal solution right now, because it while it offers a client that is simple to use like Steam (called “GOG Galaxy”) but if they announce a shutdown or acquisition, you can simply download offline installers for all your games and you don’t lose access to anything.