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Posted December 26, 2015
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xerox2k4: also most accounts have our date of birth,the probability of you still being alive after 110 years are pretty slim.I see the great purge starting in 2070 where a whole generation of our grand kids get their stuff deleted.
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Klumpen0815: I plan to live at least 120 years and you people will not deny me access to my games later!
on that note,our generation will be playing lan games at the seniors center,instead of bridge, shuffleboard and whatever else old people play now
Posted December 26, 2015
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tinyE: Is it possible to kill someone's account, like with holy water or a stake through the heart or something?
Normally I'd suggest we try the same with you first, but I fear that the holy water might turn to poison and the stake might ignite.
Posted December 26, 2015
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Licurg: Just leave your password and email address in your will, that'll solve everything .
But you are supposed to change passwords once in a while, like at least 50 times per life, changing the will all the time as well seems bothersome
Posted December 26, 2015
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LiTheElfin: I have a special question and I hope people can answer it ?

what about the lifetime of an account - knowing no one is immortal what happens to an account when its owner dies ?

may it be inheritated to someone of choice - or will it be bound to enternity to that person altough he or she will not be able to acces it in after life ?

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What?!?! I be able to keep playing my GOG games in the afterlife? Pfft! It figures that Hell would have some awful form of DRM.
Posted December 26, 2015
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LiTheElfin: I have a special question and I hope people can answer it ?

what about the lifetime of an account - knowing no one is immortal what happens to an account when its owner dies ?

may it be inheritated to someone of choice - or will it be bound to enternity to that person altough he or she will not be able to acces it in after life ?

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Stevedog13: I be able to keep playing my GOG games in the afterlife?
That's not what he meant. :D
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Posted December 26, 2015
Does GOG accept digital inheritance?
Posted December 26, 2015
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Azhdar: Does GOG accept digital inheritance?
then in the year 5400 gog would have more accounts then the actual population on earth ..... they could say ..... we have 38 trillion users since 2000 ....... lol
Posted December 26, 2015
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Klumpen0815: I'm here every day and if I'm not logged in for a year and haven't said anything, you can be certain that I'm dead.
If I'm not logged in for a year, I'm probably just playing HOMM3 again and forgot about the rest of the world.
Posted December 26, 2015
Good question ! The digital inheritance is a legal issue with various solutions, depending on the site and/or your country.

For example, I know that Facebook France allows a parent or a relative to backup your photos or informations from your FB profile when you die, if they can provide the proof of the line with you !
You can also give to a member of your family (confidence required) your password in order to let it backup your datas, but I think the digital inheritance is a problem that too few sites are ready to face off or just care, like most of the people.

You should ask GOG team by sending a ticket to the support !
Posted December 26, 2015
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Licurg: Just leave your password and email address in your will, that'll solve everything .
Only the email address?
I should probably leave the pc + keepass passwords.

...maybe also auto-nuke dat pr0n folder..
Posted December 27, 2015
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phaolo: ...maybe also auto-nuke dat pr0n folder..
that's why you give your computer login to a friend (via a deadman's switch) ,with specific instructions to "clean" your computer before handing it over to your family
Posted December 27, 2015
Doesn't a DMS require surgery/cyberimplants that have not been developed yet; much less reached a level of maturity which might make sane ppl consider getting such a thing? Oo
Posted December 27, 2015
It is worth noting a well respected biologist recently said (about 2 years ago) that anyone under the age of 40 in a devoloped nation is highly likely to see their second century and there are children alive today that will see the next millienium.
Posted December 27, 2015
It's a really good question, though computer technology being as it is is I doubt whether anyone will be able to play ANY of their games - GOG or non-GOG, physical or digital - in 20 years' time, regardless of GOG's stance or any legislation. We may or may not still have the legal right to play our GOGs, but in practice we are unlikely to still be able to do so simply because of backwards compatibility issues - even if GOG still exists then. The computer games industry is, sadly, a throwaway industry because the ARTWORKS which many computer games are can only be accessed via a constantly changing medium : the computer. It's very sad, to be honest.
Posted December 27, 2015
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Theoclymenus: It's a really good question, though computer technology being as it is is I doubt whether anyone will be able to play ANY of their games - GOG or non-GOG, physical or digital - in 20 years' time, regardless of GOG's stance or any legislation. We may or may not still have the legal right to play our GOGs, but in practice we are unlikely to still be able to do so simply because of backwards compatibility issues - even if GOG still exists then. The computer games industry is, sadly, a throwaway industry because the ARTWORKS which many computer games are can only be accessed via a constantly changing medium : the computer. It's very sad, to be honest.
Not everybody trashes old PCs, most of those still work fine.
Heck, even my two old C64s still work perfectly. Those are sold by now though, since I don't need them anymore thanks to emulation, just like I don't need Dos-PCs anymore thanks to DosBox.
Post edited December 27, 2015 by Klumpen0815
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