GOG will let you bequeath your game library to someone else as long as you can prove you're actually dead
GOG will let you bequeath your game library to someone else as long as you can prove you're actually dead
if you can obtain a copy of a court order that specifically entitles someone to your GOG personal account, the digital content attached to it taking into account the EULAs of specific games within it, and that specifically refers to your GOG username or at least email address used to create such an account, we'd do our best to make it happen.
This is not just proving that you're dead, it's proving that the court thinks it's transferable. These are very different statements
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
A last will and testament is a legal document if actually executed properly that would cover this. This is all they are talking about. Either that or if no will exists then a court order that shows “said person” gets the inheritance and your GOG account.
The EULA part is the fishy one, since EULAs are not valid in most of the World - sellers can't just after the sale force a change of the implicity contract which is the sale itself (worse, refuse to provide access to the functionality of purchased software after the buyer has fullfilled their part of the contract) so EULAs legally mean nothing except (apparently) in a handful of US states.
The only "licensing conditions" that legally apply here are the ones agreed between seller and buyer before the sale - determining by payment having been given and accepted - not after the sale.
(Online services get away with TOS changes because it's an ongowing service rather than a product sale, so the rules are different).
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.
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).
This comment should be somewhere near the top. My reaction was similar to DebatableRaccoon's.
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.
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
I'm just going to put in my will "and to my loved ones, please pirate some games I liked."
If you read carefully this is actually very similar to the Steam news. I doubt Valve or GOG care, but generally the games are "sold" by the publisher as non transferable licenses for you to play them. So the part that matters isn't up to them.
The fishy part is the "taking in account the EULA" since EULAs are not legally valid documents in most of the World.
Licenses explicitly accepted by the buyer before the purchase, sure, EULAs, no, since they're treated as an attempt to, after the implied contract which is the sale, unilaterally change the contract.
The court order makes some sense because that's basically to do with inheritance and who gets to inherit what, but the EULA "consideration" is complete total bollocks.
Updating my Will so that my wife inherits all the games that I don’t actually own.
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.
Alright hold on setting up my GOG dead man trigger. I wonder what info I need to include. So far I have an email going to support with the text "I AM DEAD". I hope they don't change address between now and when I die.
My guess is death certificate
Thank you for putting this in a way I can understand
yay great
GOG also let's me download installers so if I really wanted to I could just put my entire library on an external hard drive and add that tk my will
that will prevent you from using any features that use gog galaxy stuff tho. achievements, updates, friends, networking etc