Good question. I wonder how gog would handle a death and how do they transfer ownership to the next in line?

Its not me making thing complex.

The problem is, the human world is not simple.
Things should be simpler, but they're not.

There are vastly complex and evolving legal and social constructs, build on the back of a thousand years of iterative changes.

You can choose to ignore them, but it doesn't guarantee they'll ignore you.

As you will - but all of my digital gaming libraries are linked to an e-mail profile.

Which is mine, and not open to anyone else.

Should my bro perish before me, and have a digital gaming library - I'd not assume I should ever be able to spy on his e-mails, just to be his heir.

Just think on it.

Were it me, overseeing gog.com consumer relations, I'd allow indicating an e-mail profile as my heir, not assume a random relative needs must have access to my private communications.

We are mortile, and digitalisation does not mean dilution of ownership.

And in case you are here to fight DRM - letters and emails have been at that private communication sphere since earlier. You suggest I should sacrifice privacy of my communications, or that of my immediate relations, to own a game?

I'd perso not go there.

Do you have bros?

It would be TStael and Bros; you could do a Eurovision, I'd vote for you.

Actually interesting point!
If the heir would get full access as some suggested leaving/passing login details, that would also give access to chat, or? Which the deceased might not want.

There are enough cases were correspondence was passed to somebody else. Another can of worms in the digital age.

The email address of your GOG account can be changed though. And GOG is even so nice that they don't require an email verification in order to do that, so your brother can change it even without accessing your email, at least if you don't have two-step verification enabled.

Fun fact: Australia has never won the Eurovision song contest.

Sorry - Australia in ESC was just a onetime thing, thou Eurovision will remain for quite some times to come. And besides, no can do singing, so there.

But derail as you want: digital gaming does not have an open, easy mechanism to pass on games when we die. IF there was, I'd spread the gaming joy beyond just my bro, actually, to some dear friends.

Unless you care little for the actual ownership of games, I'd not make light of it. Lest it is a lease.

It's not meant to. Publishers and digital storefronts don't want you bequeathing your collection, they want your legal successors to buy, buy, buy the same games. It's the very purpose of digital distribution. As soon as you achieve recognition of a licence on a digital storefront as a "good", you enable the legal concept of transfer of ownership and first-sale doctrine to apply.

Easy solution: just make sure that your inheritor has access to email and storefront account names and passwords before you kick the bucket. Or include a letter in your inheritance estate, addressed to that person, containing those details. As such, you won't be passing down your game collection, just a letter that happens to contain account details.

They have been in it though, unlike every other non-European country, so they're at least a few steps closer to winning than, say, Canada.

I semi-enjoy the thought of my bro trolling on after my unavoidable demise - I think my rep would never recover the up-hit - my bro being so sharp, intolerable and charming all in one! :-D

But my bro knows not none of my gog, origin or steam user profiles, not my e-mail password, and hence I don't see how he can easily claim his due.

Should I be sticken by cancer or such like - illness where you know you are liable to die but not immediately - I'd probably try and generate a separate e-mail account to breach my privacy of comms.

But that said - my physical or monetary assets will pass on without any of that ado, and I can will a number of persons to enjoy my assets without undue stress, or process.

I love my games, and I love my paintings and art works. I am supposed to own both, but I'd not even "go there" as to splitting my digital library!

I perso think that is wrong, because as much as I do not want to die - I want those whom I love and remain after me to enjoy my assets. Gaming and artistic joy included.

They had their chance... and they blew it!

I always found it a bit odd that e.g. Israel participates in the contest as well, but that's cool. They have even won sometime, I recall.

Because when you're purchasing a game, you're purchasing a licence to play that game.

The licence is non-transferrable.

Same for football by the way (European Championship), although they never really got far. Unlike Portugal ;)

Here's a magical solution, if you're counting that's the second one I've given in this thing:

Just download the installers into pen drives, give whichever pen drive you want to whoever you want.

Phew! That was almost two full brain cells I had to use to come up with a solution, maybe OP should try using more than zero next time? Or maybe allocate one brain cell to find a solution and another one on grammar, that would be a 100% improvement in two areas at once!