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NocturnalMorning, do games w God of War Ragnarök will require a PSN account to play on PC

I don’t honestly understand why Sony is pushing this do hard.

Kolanaki,
!deleted6508 avatar

They want your data so they can market you a PS5 better.

ImplyingImplications,

There’s definitely a CEO whose bonus depends on hitting a certain number of PSN accounts. I can only assume account info is being sold because why else would they care? It’s either that or they eventually plan on charging PC players a monthly fee to play all their Sony games.

KoboldCoterie,
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social avatar

It’s either that or they eventually plan on charging PC players a monthly fee to play all their Sony games.

That would be hilarious, I’d love to see the backlash if they tried that.

littlebluespark,
@littlebluespark@lemmy.world avatar

It would sound an awful lot like the high seas, methinks.

NoneYa,

Could be market share. More PSN accounts than Nintendo and Xbox in competition.

Just to play devil’s advocate here.

But I’m with you, either selling data or both of these.

acosmichippo,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

could also just be as simple as getting people’s feet in the door to their marketplace. if you already have an account maybe you’ll be fractionally more likely to buy other stuff in the store. multiply that by a few million or whatever… it’s not nothing.

MrScottyTay,

This is the actual strategy they’re going for I think

accideath,

Yea. Someone higher up at PlayStation (I forgot who, might have been the CEO) recently said that they believe PC gamers would buy PlayStations to play exclusive sequels to their PC games (like Horizon Forbidden west, which is not yet on PC). Forcing PSN accounts for their games on PC opens the door to getting a PlayStation just a little bit further.

moon,

Marketing. They want to increase PSN account numbers to increase their valuation, to have more data, and to make it easier for customers to move to their products/services since the account creation is already done.

TommySoda, do gaming w Sony apologizes for Sony interview with Sony developer Neil Druckmann

Sony

Kit,

Sony

Bookmeat,

Sony

HEXN3T,
@HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Sony

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Sony

gofsckyourself,

Sony

RightHandOfIkaros,

Sony

9tr6gyp3, do gaming w Sony apologizes for Sony interview with Sony developer Neil Druckmann

This seems one-sided

MagnyusG,

Thisony sonyeemsony sonye-sonyided

Kroxx,

It is a bit but not terribly so imo, but I do hate Sony so I have a bias. Here is a more neutral article on it:

theverge.com/…/sony-the-last-of-us-interview-neil…

dRLY, do gaming w You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will
@dRLY@lemmy.ml avatar

Would be kind of funny to see the different stats that would change if a family was able to pass on the full account. Like maybe one child didn’t give a fuck about games (outside of just signing in here and there to keep it alive and update stuff like email and security) and no other activity. But then their kid goes hard into games and see the gaps of time. There would be lots of accounts that may have super awkward stuff like hentai visual novels. lol. But seeing some stupid high amounts of achievements and total hours of play time would be neat.

But not exactly shocking that these digital accounts would not have the ability to go much past your death. Unless we see the very deep change of all companies allowing people to remove a game and basically “gift” it. Which I can’t see happening. Even physically having discs/carts hits a limit after so long. Normal wear of use and the material rotting does mean it is likely those would also not survive past a couple of generations. And that ignores the same issues afflicting the consoles needed to play the media.

So basically the real solution to both the digital and physical passing games (or music/movies) is to rip DRM-less copies and keep the needed tools to either use the game without having the disc or needing to register to a server that is likely gone. Might be a good idea to leave ReadMe instructions along with the iso/rom and copies of the official and community patches that help with new OSes. After that it is basically just down to needing virtual machines or some other PC emulators to run old emulators.

bitfucker, do gaming w You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will

Shame. It would be a good way to know if you are their favorite child lol. All joking aside, I think this is a compromise as others have alluded deep in comments. Valve likely doesn’t care or enforce it, but they don’t want to be responsible for account transfer due to games licensing and other legal shenanigans.

arxdat, do gaming w You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will

Ahh, let the Ensh*ttification of all these platforms wash over you.

applepie, do gaming w You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will

blockchain would solve a lot of these issues but IP owners and even steam likely, appear to be allergic to the idea of digital ownership. i wonder why?

SupraMario, do gaming w You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will

Highly doubt this would hold up in court, but then again no one has challenged these digital market places. If you buy the game on their platform it should be legally yours and you can do what you want with it.

Zerush, do gaming w You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will
@Zerush@lemmy.ml avatar

How will they control if someone other continue with your account when you die?

Moghul,

Same as any other illegality. It’s legal until you get caught. The account will work fine until for one reason or another it becomes obvious you’re not the original owner of the account, and then it’s banned. Billing changes, location changes, ip changes, confession, etc.

Zerush,
@Zerush@lemmy.ml avatar

Maybe some generations later in the future it becomes suspicious. Valve want gain money and there is no reason that it will deep investigate if the downloads are still paid from the same account and paid with the same banc account, irrelevant if it’s from a different IP or ISP, that are things that can change even with the same user (transladet to other city, changing provider or PC, etc).

Moghul,

But imagine if the original owner bought Skyrim, and then you have to buy it again if you want to play it. Two Skyrim moneys!

Zerush,
@Zerush@lemmy.ml avatar

Anyway, if I’m dead I’ll give a fuck if Valve want to claim something

dependencyinjection,

When it appears the OG user is 150 years old.

grahamja,

I can’t be the only one that puts their age as 1st Jan any random year in the 1920s instead of taking the time to put my real age in to view new games coming out. Steam already thinks I am near death.

dependencyinjection,

Nope. I too don’t use my own DOB but I’ll tend to keep the range correct. Maybe I should start going older.

vulgarcynic,
@vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works avatar

There was a great response to this from Gabe several years ago (looks like 13 years ago, fuck, I’m old)…

totalgaming.co.uk/93-of-steam-users-born-on-janua…

The_Walkening, do gaming w You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will

I wouldn’t suppose that people are required to inform steam that they’re dead. Therefore, I’d assume the easiest way to bequeath games/DLCs, etc, is to get a wishlist from your loved ones, and then gift all of those games prior to death on a credit card that you might not be able to pay, due to being dead. Steam gets the money, the CC company gets shafted. Alternately, share your credit card details with a loved one and that list, and have them order within hours of your death (this depends on whether or not you were plausibly alive when those CC transactions took place)

ChuckEffingNorris,

Surely debts are taken from your estate?

Communist,
@Communist@lemmy.ml avatar

Simply have no estate and it’s all wins!

keepcarrot,

I would just give them the username and password of my account, then they can enjoy tomb raider 3 or something.

mnemonicmonkeys,

And if they don’t want to always use that specific account, they can set it up for family sharing

AlyxMS, do gaming w You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will

Also like all steam applications bundles with Steam’s DRM, right?

Wonder what happens when valve/steam shut down one day.

smnwcj,

Best case scenario it's bought, or other platforms honor a number of steam purchases as a perk. But ultimately...poof

Luckily they make a lot, have relatively low operation costs, and are a private company that doesnt need to be enshitified for share holders

TheOctonaut,

About 20 years ago when it first came about this was also a question and Valve said they would “find a way” to unlock games for everyone. Now back then, that was when they only had Valve games on Steam, and a weird ninja game that I bought but never played, setting a president for all time…

FigMcLargeHuge,

Must have been Bush… I think the word you were looking for was precedent.

TheOctonaut,

Sorry yes, in my defence I was 40.1 degrees fever at the time so punctuation didn’t seem important either.

FigMcLargeHuge,

No worries. I thought it was funny.

Gigasser, do gaming w You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will

How the hell can they know though???

jol,

They can’t, but if you don’t give you password and safety codes away before you die they can’t legally let you transfer ownership of the games. Just don’t tell them and arrange for all your emails, security keys, and 2FA keys to be safely transfered to your children.

TheBat,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

Check account age? Gotta be effective method after like 50 years or so

LordOfLocksley,

That’s discrimination against the immortal

DebatableRaccoon, (edited )

And the grandpappy gamers. I’ma have joysticks rigged into my zimmer frame when the time comes. Til death do we game.

TinklesMcPoo,

Highlander rules state there can only be one though.

z3rOR0ne, do gaming w You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will
@z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml avatar

Damn…makes me want to take the time to pirate games I already bought and own…

And then write it in my will that those who inherit my few earthly possessions have to play through each of my games at least once in front of a lawyer in order to receive their inheritance. Lol, I kid, 😂…or am I 😈?

SidewaysHighways,

Meh I haven’t even played each of my games, or probably even half

z3rOR0ne,
@z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml avatar

Honestly, me neither. Lol.

Dasnap,
@Dasnap@lemmy.world avatar

This is why I buy GOG first where possible. You can block my account, but ya can’t take my hard drive.

The_Che_Banana,

You child boots up “Kabuki Fursona 7” with tears in their eyes as the lawyer just laughs.

z3rOR0ne,
@z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml avatar

Then they boot up Spiritfarer and everybody sobs. Lol.

CosmicCleric, do gaming w You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar
Hawke,

Why is the cc-by-nc-sa license disappointing? Is your disappointment exclusive to version 4.0?

CosmicCleric,
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

Why is the cc-by-nc-sa license disappointing? Is your disappointment exclusive to version 4.0?

My only disappontment is with those humans (and humans who use ““humans””) who side with AI model using corporations that steal other people’s content to train said models for profit, over regular everyday people.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.en

Dave, do gaming w You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will
@Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

Is this any different from selling an account, which I presume you’re not allowed to do?

andrew_bidlaw,
@andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works avatar

It’s probably they don’t want to dive nose deep into all individual cases and local shenanigans* about that and probable scams that can occur. You can take other person’s account if you have both password and email access, they don’t oppose that under the table, but they don’t want to be a party in account transit because it makes them responsible for that.

  • Is it legal what’s described in one’s last words, can these games be lawfully transfered as they are under both legal code and game licensing agreements? If there’s no more living relatives, would Steam transfer your purchases to the government? Or if the inheritance is disputable between two parties, should it decide anything there? They let anything happen as long as they aren’t involved.
Dave,
@Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

As another poster alluded to, digital goods aren’t really considered property in the traditional sense. Digital property is protected under copyright (and other IP laws). The owner could sell the game, but then they wouldn’t own it anymore (e.g. when one game studio buys another, they are buying the games as well). Instead, they grant a licence to use the game, which is how Steam works as well.

If Steam let you transfer your account to someone else (e.g. bequeath or sell it), then they would need this in the licence (which they could do in theory). Other than the logistics of that (especially how to handle people selling accounts - and the scammers that inevitably come with that), the AAA publishers are unlikely to agree to those terms. Ultimately the Steam licence is likely a compromise between Steam’s vision and all the AAA publishers that wouldn’t publish on Steam if they didn’t get the licence they wanted. A bit like how Netflix doesn’t really care if you use a VPN, they just have to enforce it so studios will let them use their content.

Aurenkin,

Yes in that you have to be dead to do this which is something most people can only do once.

AndrasKrigare,

Not really, and I’m guessing it’s part of their decision here since it could open them to possibilities they don’t like if they say that an account is an asset. It’s also probably fairly complicated, legally; they need to understand how estates are settled in every country they do business, open themselves up more to scammers, etc.

I doubt they’re going to enforce this if you were to give your credentials to someone else. They’re just not going to voluntarily provide the credentials for you.

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