Submitted 9 months ago by Iceblade02@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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It actually states that you may transfer your rights to the game to another person, which is, like… wow.
I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen in any other steam-connected games.
I still dislike the wording around the fact that the TOS can be changed at any time, and refusing revokes your right to playing it (without any compensation), but that’s pretty much industry standard (unfortunately). This however, stood out to me.
I think this was one of the full EULAs I actually read though, mostly to see if I was going to sell my soul to them as part of it.
Did not, but was not disappointed, their lawyers definitely got to have some fun.
I wonder if there’s a way to transfer the game from my Steam account to my GOG account.
There is none in the way of a transfer. Neither Steam nor GOG will give you a copy of the game in exchange for another platform’s copy, nor give you a copy on a competing platform in exchange for theirs.
provided the technical protections measures used by the Game support such transfer
This boils down to if your method of ownership supports it, you can do it. Neither Steam nor GOG support it. A physical disk copy would support it, for instance, so you’d be entirely allowed to transfer ownership of your physical disk copy of the game.
Excellent breakdown. This almost definitely only applies to the Deluxe Edition that is a physical copy.
Steam explicitly doesn’t let you give your account away or sell it, likely because they service so many different companies, that it would be impossible to handle the licensing changeover for all your games. It’s still frustrating, but it also makes a little sense, considering each game is often owned by a series of different companies.
With GOG, you could theoretically download the offline installer, give that to someone else and then ask GOG support to remove BG3 from your account, and be fully abiding with the EULA conditions.
Steam does support it. A long time back, I was still new to Steam, and activated a key on a second account I’d created. I opened a support case, told them I’d activated it on the wrong account, and asked them to transfer it. They did.
I wish I could suggest campaigning for GOG Connect to support it, but sadly, it looks like they shut it down.
This strikes me as though the TOS existing is one of the (seemingly few) things out of their control when using the ip, but they went and made it as pro-consumer as they could.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 9 months ago
Any games that restrict sale of your property to other users are okay to be pirated imo.
Iceblade02@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I did pirate the game, and then it was so utterly awesome that I went and bought it shortly after they patched in the epilogues.
One of the reasons I have the steam achievement for finishing the game, but not the one for finishing the tutorial xD
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 9 months ago
Smooth! :)
illi@lemm.ee 9 months ago
This is how you battle piracy
drbluefall@toast.ooo 9 months ago
imho, that’s how you find the some of the best games games.
Find the ones that people pirate, then enjoy so much that they go out of their way to get an official copy.