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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why can't they just take Linux users seriously. It's what's keeping me from buying more of their games and using them more.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Market share. I know it's a meme but seriously, push Linux on people who will benefit from it.

My girlfriend is totally non-technical but I set her up with an old laptop running Debian and after a few months she loved it. No ads, no popups selling cloud storage, no forced reboots, and it doesn't crash. That's one more browser hitting websites without Windows in it's useragent string.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How do I posthumously prove anything?

Do I need a dead-man switch? Do they sell those?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think a death certificate and your will are enough. Only one of the two is probably not enough.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Wills aren't required and not everyone will have one.

I think the best course of action is to have a trust set up and have all of your assets under the trust. That's how my attorney set up my end of life tasks. It saves you problems with probate and taxes while also giving you flexibility if you want to change things.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I’m guessing Steam decided against being able to leave your games to somebody else when you die because of how most EULAs I’ve read work: they are often non-transferrable licence and so in most cases the store has no choice in the matter. Now GOG are willing to say they will do what they can given this limitation, but I can see why Steam wouldn’t: it’s a whole lot of work for realistically not much benefit. It’s probably easier for Valve to gift the same games over to the new person.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Aren't all the games on GOG DRM-free? If so, there's not much difference here than giving someone a USB drive filled with the installers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Pretty sure that's the technicality GoG is using when they keep saying all this sort of stuff. Their terms of service have effectively the same language about purchases only being a license that Steam does.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

"In general, your GOG account and GOG content is not transferable. However, if you can obtain a copy of a court order that specifically entitles someone to your GOG personal account, the digital content attached to it taking into account the EULAs of specific games within it, and that specifically refers to your GOG username or at least email address used to create such an account, we'd do our best to make it happen. We're willing to handle such a situation and preserve your GOG library—but currently we can only do it with the help of the justice system."

That's a very fancy way of saying "we'll comply with a court order", which is what any business would do.
This is marketing fluff. DRM free is good enough reason to like them without framing them as fixing literally every problem with steam.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

How am I supposed to prove I am dead if I am dead? 🤔

I can just leave USB drives with all the offline installers in a box. Then I don't have to prove shit!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How am I supposed to prove I am dead if I am dead? 🤔

Just send them a photo of you dead. Make sure to label it “This is me, dead”.

Or send them your dead body.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You get a death certificate

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

As far as I know dead people don't receive a death certificate

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

Yes they do, but their partner or child is allowed to get copies.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm going to have a difficult time proving anything when I'm dead. Could perhaps someone who survived me provide such proof?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (7 children)

And just like that, GOG rose to surpass Steam as the better place to buy video games.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It was already better as the games it sells are free of Digital Restrictions Management

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Just call it malware. At least that's an honest name.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The only client I would willingly install alongside Steam

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

If only they had a Linux client I might do that too, but the client they said they would come out with never apeared

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Funny how people like it when they actually provide value to you instead of only forcing an ad delivery/data collection tool on you, right?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong: if you're a linux gamer then GOG doesn't support your platform, no?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Yes and no. They do have Linux binaries for games that support Linux, but GOG Galaxy is Windows. Heroic Launcher and others do support GOG.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (3 children)

No idea what bequeath means but it sounds badass so I support this

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

bequeath /bĭ-kwēᴛʜ′, -kwēth′/
transitive verb
To leave or give (personal property) by will.
To pass (something) on to another; hand down.
"bequeathed to their children a respect for hard work."
To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It just means you are leaving it to someone when you die. It's the opposite of inheriting.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It’s the complement of inherit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Yes, that's more accurate. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It’s basically like a wetter, sloppier, longer version of a queef

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

It's so hard to complete your Pokedex these days

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have no idea what GOG even is but im seeing it as a steam competitor in headlines lately. What's going on that's causing it to come up a lot?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

GOG is “Good Old Games”, a digital distribution service for PC games run by CD Projekt Red, developers of The Witcher and Cyberpunk. It mostly focuses on old games from the Win95/98 days that have been patched/fixed by their in-house dev team to run on modern Windows releases. However, it also sells all CD Projekt Red titles and seems to be expanding to just be a regular PC game distribution service.

It’s being talked about a lot right now because unlike Steam, EGS, and other stores they sell you a DRM-free download. Because of recent legislation in California, companies are required to use clearer language when they aren’t selling you something that you own forever, they are instead selling you a license to access something.

This has reignited discussion on digital ownership, Steam, and what happens if you die or Steam shuts down/is acquired and you lose your non-transferable access to the games in your library. GOG is the ideal solution right now, because it while it offers a client that is simple to use like Steam (called “GOG Galaxy”) but if they announce a shutdown or acquisition, you can simply download offline installers for all your games and you don’t lose access to anything.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Oic, thanks for curing some of my ignorance

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

How can I prove that I'm dead if I'm dead? The fuck?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Postmortem selfie with the boys.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

And why is there a condition? Can't gift the whole library to someone?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

I assume this is an official way of claiming when you don't have login information.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just leave your login information for the next of kin or whoever to use, no one will know any better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

TIL your account is still active after 150 years.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

What if I swear on god FR FR?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Out of the loop here… what’s GOG?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Competitor to steam, it's selling points are DRM free games releasing old games in playable States for modern machines. They also sell contemporary games.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

And owned by cd project (Witcher, cyberpunk)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

gog.com (acronym of Good Old Games), an alternative store where you can buy DRM-free games.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Your answer in the form of a meme

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

That is kinda hilarious ngl

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