• JokeDeity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8 hours

    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 purchases games on there.

    • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5 hours

      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.

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5 hours

        I mean, my brother and I use Steam Family Sharing to access each others’ games. It’s a really generous policy nowadays. And if one of us died, I can see how being able to pass those games on to the other would be nice.

    • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
      5 hours

      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

        • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
          4 hours

          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.

          • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zipEnglish
            3 hours

            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.

            • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
              3 hours

              Yeah that makes sense. But would they send a letter to Valve or something?

              • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zipEnglish
                3 hours

                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.

    • honesthenery@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      11 hours

      Chynah bad bla bla bla… tell this to some of these gamers and the might think twice.

      • Wataba@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9 hours

        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.

      • TheObviousSolution@thebrainbin.org
        11 hours

        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.

  • rafoix@lemmy.zipEnglish
    10 hours

    Every digital storefront will do an update that will “unfortunately” be incompatible with the legacy media every 10-20 years.

    • creamfresh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 hours

      Every store front, you sure? How will GOG or itch.io accomplish this if I downloaded the games into a private offline storage?

      • rafoix@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4 hours

        I really only meant the big corporate ones. The niche ones would continue being awesome.

    • scops@reddthat.comEnglish
      6 hours

      Steam could, but it would be an extremely dangerous decision. One of their biggest competitive advantages is they they break users out of the console generation gaps.

      Why buying a Steam Deck with all my old games (to say nothing of emulators) was more appealing than a Switch 2.

      • rafoix@lemmy.zipEnglish
        6 hours

        It’s only a matter of time until consoles make the jump from x86 to ARM. They will kill off the PS4-PS5 generations.

        x86 is too inefficient. ARM CPUs match x86 system performance while using a fraction of the energy. This will give future consoles a chance to use a larger GPU.

        Edit - that might be the reason why they’re going all digital for PS6. PS6 should run x86 code natively. Maybe PS7 will use an ARM cpu which will not be able to play any PS6 games natively but they will have a streaming service for the older consoles.