![However, an anonymous GOG employee paints an even darker tone of the internal situation: „We were told it’s a financial decision. GOG’s revenue couldn’t keep up with growth, the fact that we’re dangerously close to being in the red has come up in the past few months, and the market’s move towards higher [developer] revenue shares have, or will, affect the bottom line as well.](https://thegeek.games/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/the-gog-1.jpg)
While you can’t transfer your Steam account to your loved ones in your will, CD Projekt (CDP) is taking a slightly different approach, though there are legal pitfalls.
We’ve written before about Valve’s strict stance on whether you can legally transfer your Steam account to someone else. Of course, you can get around this by giving someone else access to your account, but that is not legal. In the case of GOG, the situation is a bit different, but you have to take the necessary legal steps on the user side.
GOG responded to PC Gamer with the following statement: “As you may know, GOG does not collect enough information to truly identify a specific person (such as first and last name) or their family or marital status. As a result, we are unable to determine whether someone is related to a particular user or whether a particular user has died. In general, your GOG Account and GOG Content are not transferable.
However, if you can obtain a copy of a court order that specifically entitles someone to your personal GOG account and the digital content associated with it, taking into account the EULAs of specific games within it, and that specifically refers to your GOG username or at least the email address used to create such an account, we’ll do our best to comply. We are willing to handle such a situation and preserve your GOG library – but at this time, we can only do so with the help of the legal system,” GOG wrote.
There’s very little legal help available for game preservation, which is no coincidence: no one has seriously considered what happens to a person’s digital game library when they’re no longer alive. The law lags behind real life and has yet to catch up, but publishers can ruin everything with their disposable games. (F1 22, for example, is no longer available on Steam from Codemasters and Electronic Arts. If it hadn’t been for a Denuvoless exe published by accident, it wouldn’t be available in warez format on PC…)
In the case of GOG, however, all you have to do is put the installers on a thumb drive or external drive/SSD, and they can be shared with others…
Source: PCGamer
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