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[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 days ago

Your children can inherit your GOG library. Buy DRM free!

Or just pirate lmao

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 22 points 2 days ago

This policy is literally against the law in the EU... Wait... double checks notes In the.. US? huh... normally it's the European Union protecting us from big tech bullshit

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 181 points 3 days ago
[-] Varven@lemmy.world 49 points 3 days ago

Nahh dude has a bigger years of service then steam's age

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 84 points 3 days ago

This screenshot is from 100 years in the future.

[-] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 32 points 3 days ago

Mind asking your future connection to fire up Stanley Parable for me?

Let's see what fuckery they baked in.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Some day...

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[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

WHY DIDN'T THIS FUCKER WARN US ABOUT 9/11

[-] moody@lemmings.world 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

25 years ago, 9/11 wasn't a big deal.

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

WHY DIDN'T THIS FUCKER REMIND US ABOUT 9/11

[-] Heggico@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

If you look very closely, you can see its Photoshop!

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[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 31 points 3 days ago

I think they said you can't transfer the license between accounts, but they never said anything about turning over the account

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago

Transferring your account to another person is against the TOS of most services.

[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago
[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

I mean, it's still against it. But I can't see how they'd enforce it, unless valve starts demanding IDs. I'm afraid for a post-gaben era where Valve might just do that...

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago

I think the TOS include that you are not allow to tell your login credentials to anyone?

[-] filcuk@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago

Good luck to anyone trying to enforce that lol

[-] DNOS@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

After 60 years they cut off your account ... Why 60 ? Just because they need to find a way to screw people that still comply to the rules ....

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[-] original_reader@lemm.ee 94 points 3 days ago

Another example of a company making clear that we don't truly own the games we play on their platform.

[-] Squiddly@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

I got three kids, I wrote down my steam login in all their baby books page 1.

[-] Dark_Dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago

I hope the password is kid friendly

[-] Squiddly@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Bignutsforchicks9000

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 73 points 3 days ago

The solution is GOG (their business model).

You get the individual keys, no DRM.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 days ago

A couple of years ago my gog exceeded my steam library. Pretty good considering I have around 500 on steam.

.... But wait till you find out how many of those I've actually played... 🙃😓😢

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[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 43 points 3 days ago

That won't work for long. With the way things are going, we may get expiring accounts after 100 years from your date of birth you registered with.

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 96 points 3 days ago

That's not gonna stick, steam can't remember birthdays. And I'm pretty sure everyone told it multiple times we were born January 1 1901

[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 24 points 3 days ago

I would trust steam wouldn't do it but epic and Microsoft will

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[-] Sparkles@fedia.io 58 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah my kids basically took over my steam account already on the family gaming computer. Alas.

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 79 points 3 days ago

Your gaming alias now is a generational family name. All hail the House of Sparkles.

[-] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

I look forward to the day when I pass my screen name on to my son...

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[-] wonderfulvoltaire@lemmy.world 55 points 3 days ago

The family sharing works okay but the old school way is good too.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I think they might start getting suspicious when the account age is double the average human lifespan and is still in use.

[-] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 56 points 3 days ago

Not true as I've often been born on January 1st in the early 1900's.

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[-] juliebean@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago

but by that point, whoever the inheritors of the account were have probably been paying money and adding new games to it for decades. why would valve destroy their relationship with that customer just because they might still technically have access to some hundred year old games that either don't even run on modern systems, or might even be public domain by that point?

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[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

Assuming valve still exists at that point.

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[-] Varven@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

In Australia we don't have family sharing for some stupid reason

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 17 points 3 days ago

I dunno if it's "family sharing" or some other thing, but I can play games from my sister's library through some means that I set up a couple of years ago.

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[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago

That’s how we’re still using my Dad’s account, it’s mostly used by my brother, but shared with the other gamers in the family

[-] SinJab0n@mujico.org 17 points 3 days ago

GOG being the absolute BOSS; u will be able to leave your library as your legacy for future generations.

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[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I'll never have kids.

My niece though will have a thorough education on sailing the high seas when she's old enough to choose media on her own.

[-] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 days ago

password managers work too

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