Just curious.

Being a proud European, owning a game should mean my bro will outright inherit it, if I die first.

Should I die second, my best friends go next.

Gog.com have a form to assing our games to posteriority?

If not - do.

It would greatly bother me if my bro should have to fight gog because obviously he will not know my passwords, and he'll be - troll lvl 80 - a bit sorry to have to.

My bro will inherit my games libraries by a will. And I really expect him to get and to enjoy them. But I admit I am not sure how gog.com ensures it.

Anyone knows?

Wasn't there already a thread about this some time back?

It might have even had a proper sentence for a title.

This is TStael we're dealing with, here. I've learned to just gleam what few words I can and completely ignore her otherwise since it's not worth the hassle of trying to communicate.

If I recall correctly, the other thread basically ended with the point that GOG's not big enough yet that they'd need to do this, and there's not all that many online places that have such a program anyways, so there's really not much of a point to it. If you want to pass stuff down, just give whoever comes after you your login info.

If...you mean when.
& no, i haven't given it one thought.

Mmmm, who should get hunniepop, that will cause a fight fo sure.

Actually I'm more worried about what happens to it when I go to prison for the rest of my life after killing you for starting this thread. :P

There is going to be a future generation where the passing down of digital items is done by not telling the powers that be of a person's passing - because corporations would revoke licenses that were held by the deceased. Expect them to offer a program where the items are resold to an inheritor at 70% of the sticker price. SWAT will be at your door if you circumvent the program and lie about your ancestor's passing.

That is my (un)pleasant thought of the day.

Here's a magical solution for your problem: give your brother your password.

Tsk tsk. Unless you are clear how to have your most dear take over your gaming library, I would not be so easily dismissive.

My will has my bro as my benefactory, but he does and will not know my passwords - so how exactly can he claim my digital librariary, unless gog.com facilitates this - DRM free, and al! ;-)

Yes, I intend to leave account information for various services I use to my next of kin. That person may then do whatever s/he likes with it.

EDIT: Said person would also get hold of my local storage, so s/he'd get the games anyway.

A perfect solution:
Backup everything and left them to your brother.

Sorry, no. I have privacy towards my brother, as he has towards me - and our love sort of assumes freely felt respect.

DRM free should be fully owned - so check your magical solution, pray.

I own my game, I assing it after I die. No sibling violation of my password strenght for convenience.

So gog.com - please just accomodate. Us gaming fans should be able to assign an heir without a hassle. I find.

I've lived for several decades without dying, and I'm beginning to think I might be immune. But hey, for you mortals out there, it'd be amusing if you planned ahead by putting all of your usernames and passwords in a text file inside of a password-protected archive, then had the archive password be the final thing you said to your loved ones on your deathbed.

It'd be one of those fun, Citizen Kane-y things, except Rosebud would obviously be something more along the lines of SirMixalotLikesBigButts007. It'd almost be worth dying to see that final look on their faces, and that'd also be a quick way to get a god-tier obituary. And hey, once they figure it out, they'll probably be done with mourning and ready to get their classic Fallout on. That's a win for all involved who aren't worm food.

This assumes your personal password being passed on, eh?

Or you not having a password and your sibling accessing your computrer?


Please understand that as much I never assume my brother to violate my privacy, and as much he will have my love. DRM free is owning a game.

So when you tell me to go gimmicky, I tell you; I own my gog.com games, do I not?

Him knowing your password isn't a violation of privacy. It only is that if he actually uses it to access your accounts.

In fact, that's not only an invasion of privacy, it's against the terms of service and maybe even illegal.

That's an awful thing to accuse your brother of.

Why do you say you love your brother if you accuse him of being the sort of deviant who would break the law and invade your privacy the moment he got the chance? Do tell!

Maybe you just don't trust your brother that much?

I think a loving sibling relationship revolves around trust, no?

If you don't trust your bro then maybe you have more important things to worry than the OP. If you work at it you'll get there someday :-D