What will happen to your gaming collection when you die?

p_xavier

p_xavier

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Since we're, as forum members, getting much older (yes there was a thread 13 years ago), have your views changed on this?

I absolutely have no one to give my gaming collection and with my current health situation, I wouldn't know who to give the games to, even I die tomorrow.
 
Most games I bought are on steam, so nothing since I really don't own any of it.

I have a demons souls ps5 disc. You're welcome to have it when I check out.
 
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Will sell anything I have of value (already have been doing this for the past 5 years). Donate the rest. Still have over 500 physical games.
 
All physical media would've actually gone into full degradation mode by the time that happens.

My digital libraries will remain accessible through whatever devices they were logged into by the time of my death.
 
Perrott said:
All physical media would've actually gone into full degradation mode by the time that happens.

My digital libraries will remain accessible through whatever devices they were logged into by the time of my death.
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Blu-ray has a special coating that prevents disc rot and while it's said to last between 10-20 years, has any of you with PS3 games stopped functionning? It's more in the 200 years range I would say.
 
p_xavier said:
Since we're, as forum members, getting much older (yes there was a thread 13 years ago), have your views changed on this?

I absolutely have no one to give my gaming collection and with my current health situation, I wouldn't know who to give the games to, even I die tomorrow.
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All this games will be lost in time....like tears in the rain
 
I don't really think about it. I don't have the type of collection that most would view as highly valuable.

It's all basically a long term rental.
 
Crayon said:
Prob leave to my friends and their kids with the wish every game gets tried out for at least an hour.
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All other stuff is accounted for, even my mother says if I die she wants my furniture. Like how the heck is this an appropriate discussion with your son.
 
My digital library when I die:
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I've already told my wife to have my brother sell it and base sales off of price charting. My collection is large, I've accumulated a lot of games going back to the NES. I also have some Nintendo fiber optic signs, a Nintendo triad sign, and severs other Nintendo signs. My collection is currently worth around $100k. My family needs to ensure they don't throw it out or dump it for Pennie's on the dollar.
 
Perrott said:
All physical media would've actually gone into full degradation mode by the time that happens.

My digital libraries will remain accessible through whatever devices they were logged into by the time of my death.
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Nah, I keep my games in a climate controlled environment with dehumidifiers running when humidity rises above 40.
 
Get a will & testament & give it to someone who will appreciate it or sell it to buy some kids the latest gaming craze.
 
TKOFromTokyo said:
I've already told my wife to have my brother sell it and base sales off of price charting. My collection is large, I've accumulated a lot of games going back to the NES. I also have some Nintendo fiber optic signs, a Nintendo triad sign, and severs other Nintendo signs. My collection is currently worth around $100k. My family needs to ensure they don't throw it out or dump it for Pennie's on the dollar.
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Same here, although not as extensive or valuable. I've told my wife numerous times please don't just put my games/record collection on a folding table for $5 in a yard sale. Get some decent/fair value for everything after her and the kids take what they want. Feel free to toss my favorite record and a controller in the casket too.
 
I don't have much of a gaming collection, but what I do have will go to my kid. If he doesn't want it, he can give it away or sell it. I won't give a shit, I'll be dead.
 
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It's being buried with me. I've purchased a large section in our local cemetery and I've already had a whole room built about the size of a medium size shack. My coffin will be in the middle and shelves built along the walls. I will fill up about half of it and then the rest will be filled up as games continue to come out and my kids have been left money to continue to purchase all games and add to my collection.
 
If I should ever be so lucky as to find my true love, I will ask her to donate them to charity for children.

If I die alone, then whatever. It will probably be thrown away. I'm in a pretty sour mood today, so my sentiment is if I am dead then so are my memories of those games so who gives a fuck what happens to a bunch of discs and cartridges.
 
p_xavier said:
Blu-ray has a special coating that prevents disc rot and while it's said to last between 10-20 years, has any of you with PS3 games stopped functionning? It's more in the 200 years range I would say.
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For something PS3 to present, I'm just not especially worried because *most* of that is pretty accessible digitally. It's more CD/DVD based things - I have a handful of PS1-GameCube games that are completely scratch free, but just stopped functioning.
 
It's sad my Steam and other digital libraries can't be given to my children. Maybe that's a mess on the backend because you'd have to have a department in charge of that kind of stuff.

My step daughter will probably play some of it or keep it. I am giving her my framed autograph of Hideo Kojima. She already requested that. I am also giving her a Scars of Time music box.

In 20 years they'll probably have given away a lot of the stuff for free. All those digital life cons 🤦🏻‍♂️
 
Perrott said:
All physical media would've actually gone into full degradation mode by the time that happens.

My digital libraries will remain accessible through whatever devices they were logged into by the time of my death.
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People are still playing Atari 2600 carts that are 40+ years old.
 
I've already sold off most everything pre-360/PS3 except for a handful of my absolute favorites. I realized I was getting into collecting for the sake of collecting, and just buying everything I could get my hands on. I'm moving on to getting rid of the 360-era stuff now, since I just don't play it, and that's the sweet spot for buyers/sellers currently - plus the money can go into a nice trust for my wife for when I'm gone.

My collection is now limited to boxed systems I find interesting, and one or two games to demo on them. Emulation scratches the playtime itch (when I actually HAVE time, that is)

Growing old sucks.
 
Giving everything to my cats and will pay someone to kill anybody who try to hurt or steal them, and another person to take care of all of them.
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They just told me they have a souls boss mod "prepare to die" 😾
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And a JEDI mode too 😹
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My cats just learned the news 😹
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Staring International Cat Day GIF
 
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I still want kids someday…

And if I do have any, I would hope they would be as respectful as I've tried to be for my father. He didn't collect games, but he has some movies and I'm keeping the ones I want. Even some that I don't really care about much, but I know he liked a lot.
 
I'll have mine melted down to make a giant, plastic sarcophagus, which would be buried in an area where the highest concentration of Bloodborne remaster zealots reside in hope the highly toxic plastic would poison the earth and eventually seep into the water supply, thus killing off these insufferable bores.
Or I'd donate it to Games museums in the interest of preservation.
 
Natural death... It would happen in 30/40 years and all that shit would be worthless, even for me. Imagine, 40 years or so
 
I have mine in my will going to my best mate who I've gamed with since OG Mario Kart.

I have everything in the loft since those days, never traded a single game or console in, not even the Jaguar or 3DO.
 
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