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
Accounts aren't transferable but GOG is willing to make it happen, with a little help from the legal system.
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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.
This is not just proving that you're dead, it's proving that the court thinks it's transferable. These are very different statements
They’re outright stating the account itself is transferable if you are entitled to it, but that some content attached to the account won’t be, depending on EULA and transferability of individual software licenses.3
A last will and testament is a legal document if actually executed properly that would cover this. This is all they are talking about. Either that or if no will exists then a court order that shows “said person” gets the inheritance and your GOG account.
The EULA part is the fishy one, since EULAs are not valid in most of the World - sellers can't just after the sale force a change of the implicity contract which is the sale itself (worse, refuse to provide access to the functionality of purchased software after the buyer has fullfilled their part of the contract) so EULAs legally mean nothing except (apparently) in a handful of US states.
The only "licensing conditions" that legally apply here are the ones agreed between seller and buyer before the sale - determining by payment having been given and accepted - not after the sale.
(Online services get away with TOS changes because it's an ongowing service rather than a product sale, so the rules are different).