another reason why the US wants people to hate china
This is really interesting
Chynah bad bla bla bla… tell this to some of these gamers and the might think twice.
How is this related to what PlexSheep said?
Ah yes, bribe gamers to forget about the cultural genocide, the abductions for organ harvesting, the international kidnappings and the general funding of censorship and rewriting their own goddamn murder sprees.
I mean those things are valid. But I see this decision as one of those “the one that got away”. There’s a billion people there, someone was in the right place at the right time.
You don’t sound well.
China is only as bad as your tendency to criticize your government. Free speech and associated quality issues aside, it has to function as one.
I’ve legit thought about this a lot. I’d like someone to be able to take over my Steam account given I have over a thousand purchased games on there.
I like how every gamer has a Steam library full of games they’ll never play, but thinks that someone else might want to play them some day. It’s like the modern day equivalent of a grandparent’s attic.
You’re not wrong, but at the same time, there’s that chance. I like older games, I would have been grateful to get a library like mine, lol, maybe someone else will.
Exactly. It is personal property and must be treated as such.
I’m planning to put my Steam account details in the same envelope as my will and bequeath it to my kids lol. Generational games library
Just don’t tell Valve about it.
https://ohepic.com/steam-inheritance-why-you-cant-transfer-your-game-library/
This is why I always check to see if a game is listed on GoG before buying on steam. Even if it costs 15% more, it still feels worth it.
Yep that’s why I said planning to
;). There’s no practical way they can tell I’m dead, assuming people don’t try to change the credit card on file or address or anything like that. Worst case scenario it’s not that big a deal anyway. Even if they only get to play for like 6 months that’s still pretty good in my books.Things are in a funny state huh? I wonder what the economic impact of so much digital value disappearing into the void will be… Normally you can pass on stuff like DVD collections and other assets, but increasingly we seem to own nothing and assets die with us.
The credit card company is going to cancel your card once it finds out. They have access to your Social Sec I’d and credit score. They’ll know once your taxes are filed, if not sooner.
theyre not going to check shit.
You think credit card companies are in the business of leaving cards bringing to dead people open? People who can no longer be held liable to pay the debts that are accrued?
Yeah that makes sense. But would they send a letter to Valve or something?
No, the credit card would get cancelled. Then if anyone wanted to buy anything else on the account, would have to put their own on it, which has their name.
I guess if no one did that, it might be overlooked. Maybe. Honestly, who knows with how much info mega companies have managed to collect on everyone and distribute to anyone willing to pay.
You could get around the named card issue with gifting games to the account. Not sure which would stand out the most.
Tbf I’ve made a payment on my account with another person’s card.
I was broke and friends wanted to play a game with me and since I was already hanging out with them in person, rather than gifting the game, my friend just generated a one-time use card in Revolut and I paid using that.
Account still there.
Name on the card is not conclusive proof of death by any means.
Make sure you erase your sim save files before death
Sounds more like you need a time machine, and a clue.
I’ve never met a human being that didn’t collect things they’ll never use, and yet everyone judges other people’s collections, lol.
Digital games are not things, that is the point. The people who boast about how large their unplayed steam library is, are consumerist zombies, they are the same people who happily buy trash micro-transactions, and drool over their favourite developers, as their games get worse, and worse, and are released further and further from being ready for sale.
Do they teach you to end every sentence with “lol” in kindergarten?
My bad, I should have just said, “suck my dick and balls you destitute faggot.”
clearly a proud mcmurican
Nope
Don’t worry, y’all somehow making it even worse than it already was, it will get down to your level soon enough.
You should be able to sell all your purchases.
Every digital storefront will do an update that will “unfortunately” be incompatible with the legacy media every 10-20 years.
Every store front, you sure? How will GOG or itch.io accomplish this if I downloaded the games into a private offline storage?
I really only meant the big corporate ones. The niche ones would continue being awesome.
If only there was a worthy heir to inherit my pornhub subscription
The curse of being so busy building a legacy worth passing on that you never took time to have someone to pass it on to?
It’s not too late to start a box.
Kinda ballar ngl
It’s almost like buying things means you own them.
A good start. We need a lot more of this.
An important one is passing on digital goods after the death of the store.
Maybe I want to pass a game to somebody else without me needing to die first?
Hell, why not even pass a game from my account on PSN to my Steam account or vice versa?
With legislation, much of this becomes reality. None of it is technically impossible. it’s just nobody wants to do it. Publishers don’t really care where you buy a game, they still got paid. The stores want to be the arbiters of all.
So I mean for most accounts I’m aware of you could just give someone your login credentials and you can practically change ownership (name, contact info, etc.)from the account.
Is this a bigger deal in China as accounts are tied to some form of ID?
valve is pretty famous for not allowing this in steam. I mean you “can” do this but i am pretty sure it goes against their TOS. AFAIK they are even pretty explicit that if you die your game licenses become invalid
My kid can still play my tabletop Catan game after I die.
Hopefully, I will someday be able to donate my library to a…library. While most of my catalog probably won’t interest people, there is still a small chance of passing down my culture to future generations.
Are your people so poor you’ve turned video game accounts into savings?
It’s not about money. It’s about keeping something that was important for a person from being lost after they die.
Sure it isn’t.
Your breath smells like cock, man. Please brush.
Calm down we both know you like the smell.
