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
www.pcgamer.com
GOG will let you bequeath your game library to someone else as long as you can prove you're actually dead
Title of PCGamer's article is misleading, they want a court order to do it. Proof of death is not enough.
They have to do that anyway. Court orders overrule a company's policies in most (all?) legal systems.
The fuck do they mean they will try?
"Oh no there's no way we could possibly break out of these invisible shackles we put on ourselves"
The whole thing is vaguely and noncomittally worded, it promises basically nothing.
Take this bit for example:
In other words: talk to the individual publishers of each game and get their permission :P At which point GOG's involvement is almost irrelevant, if you have the publisher's consent then they might as well give you a copy.
It's legal speech for "we want to however if we straight out say we're going to do it no studio is going to want to release games on our platform"
Isn't this the same with any asset for probate? In the UK, you cannot just hand them a pinky promise IOU. If the person has 4 kids and a wife, who gets the steam library? Courts decide this.
I would assume that court orders and proved wills have different levels of coercion when you present them to someone like GOG? Dunno. Each country probably has its own rules, including fun complexities like whether or not GOG was a party to the process or not.