Comment on No leaving a Steam account in a will after you die according to Valve

owenfromcanada@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does GOG allow it? I expect theres a clause for that in their TOS too.

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  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    GOG has always been big on non-DRM and giving you direct access to the installers. They do have a launcher, which likely has similar terms as Steam, but there’s no way to enforce the way people use installers.

    So it’s more similar to physical media–there’s still legislation, but I don’t believe “passing on” a game would be any more illegal than passing on a physical disk.

    And GOG has always been in favor of this model, to my knowledge.

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  • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can literally just download copies of all your games and give them the installers, even if it’s in the TOS, there’s nothing stopping you from bequeathing them practically speaking.

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    • Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Its the same with password sharing on steam. Doesn’t mean its not against ToS

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      • Jolteon@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The difference is that with GOG once you buy something, you can download it and have it forever, with nothing short of extremely drastic measures that the company can do to remove your access. With steam, all they have to do is just disable your account, and you lose everything.

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• DarkThoughts@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I'm on Linux, so no. Absolutely not.

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  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m also on Linux. There are plenty of games that run natively. I still use Steam for those I can’t get on GOG, but there are plenty you can.

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• Blizzard@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t think there are other companies like GOG. How about just shifting to Good Old GOG?

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  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Buying physical media is another option. But yeah, I’m not aware of others either.

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    • magikmw@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Most of physical media is just a box with a code inside these days. You’ll be lucky to get a DVD with some of the game data you still need to patch.

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    • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What physical media? A plastic box containing a slip of paper with a download code? Or at most a disc that doesn’t even contain the full game just part and some activation code to download the rest

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