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No leaving a Steam account in a will after you die according to Valve (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[–] owenfromcanada 6 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Hopefully more people shift to companies like GOG. Can't get everything on there, but I've got quite a bit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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

Edit:

Regarding accounts, from their TOS:

(h) Don’t share, ‘buy’, ‘sell’, transfer, gift, lend, steal, misappropriate or misuse GOG accounts.

That said, I'm looking for details for individual games, but odds are, the rules are the same. Yes, you can still do it, but you can on Steam as well and if you're disregarding legality, theres always other options.

Edit 2:

3.3 Your GOG account and GOG content are personal to you and cannot be shared with, sold, gifted or transferred to anyone else.

From https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212632089-GOG-User-Agreement?product=gog

[–] owenfromcanada 3 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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 via a drive practically speaking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month 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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