What will happen to your gaming collection when you die?

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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I'm going to leave it to my bastard kid that I haven't seen except in a single photo his mother sent me.

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Don't make your wife/kids try to sell it. What a goddamn pain in the ass that'd be.

Donate the lot to a library or some other public media museum.
 
My kids are both in my Steam Family, so I guess they'll still be able to play those games for as long as they want.

For my physical games, I guess I'll work with them as I get older. If they don't want them, or if they feel like they'd be burdened by inheriting them, I'd liquidate them. There might also be a few games that (again, if the kids didn't want them) I'd probably have tossed into the incinerator with me.
 
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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Just give it to someone who you would know would appreciate it. Doesn't have to be someone close to you.

I once gave my entire 360 collection to a bunch of random bored soldiers in Iraq before i left. id like to think it helped, even if it was just a little bit.
 
I plan on selling all my stuff when I'm too old to play it anymore, then spend all the money on hookers and blow. Go out with a bang.
 
It'll go in a box and either be given to goodwill or sold in one job lot for well under what it's worth.
If it goes to goodwill, I'm glad to know it'll either be distributed and potentially enjoyed, or the money generated would go to a good cause.

I don't have a big collection. Just a small, quality concentrated collection. I tend to only hold onto personal GOTYs and personal GOTY contenders, as they're all I have an emotional connection to or likely to ever replay at some point. I don't even currently have the means to play some of the stuff, like N64 carts.
 
This is a really good question. I'm really the biggest gamer I know. My son is 11 but hes not really into games like that, he'll play like fornite casually. Nieces and nephews the same.
 
My wife and son will probably take all my consoles(everything from my magnavox odyssey 2 to the 8bit,16bit and so on up to all the current gen) to the local game store and cash out.
My digital library will probably go to my kids as well. I printed out all my passwords and left instructions just in case something happens. I'm healthy, but i know people in their 30s that died from a random stroke so you never know.
 
I got rid of most of my collection years ago. It was just clutter. I don't care what happens to the rest.
 
One of the biggest problems with digital libraries is that they get massive and become incredibly unorganized. PS5 has no real system in place to organize games by studio, franchise or folder. Anyone getting passed down a game library would just inherit a giant digital pile of games that can be sorted a few different ways into different massive piles. The situation on PSN being worse than on Steam with regards to the fact that you can't return unwanted bad games. This means any PSN library will have a mix of bad games and favorite games that can't really be viewed well or organized.
 
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Finishing up selling my pre-1986 collection offline as well as everything after 2013 (Thanks GAF marketplace!) this spring

As for My 1987-2012 collection if I'm still around I'll sell off later in life
 
jshackles said:
My kids are both in my Steam Family, so I guess they'll still be able to play those games for as long as they want.

For my physical games, I guess I'll work with them as I get older. If they don't want them, or if they feel like they'd be burdened by inheriting them, I'd liquidate them. There might also be a few games that (again, if the kids didn't want them) I'd probably have tossed into the incinerator with me.
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Same. My GoG and epic games will last as long as my computer or its logins do.
 
No idea, I guess my family will take care of it. I've already marked up the games that I think might be worth something, so hopefully it'll get sold or kept rather than thrown away.
 
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When I die, my collection will drop where I fall. Then I'll respawn at the start of the area and have to run all the way back to that point to collect my loot.

Praise the sun.
 
I think I threw my entire physical games collection (since PS1) out with the trash a few years ago.
Or maybe it's somewhere in my storage. 🤔

And since I'm digital-only since mid last-gen, there is probably nothing left to pass on.
 
p_xavier said:
My movie collection is 3x as big.

About 1400+ titles.
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yeah. i have thousands of dvds. thousands of blu rays, and 5000+ CDs. When i die, I give zero *#$&*# about any of it and it can go to a landfill for all i care given that physical media will be thoroughly dead by then. no reason to burden loved ones having to get rid of this garbage.
 
I had a large physical collection of 6th gen console games. Eventually I got bored and tired and sold them all. Been digital ever since. Having a large physical collection is just a pain in the ass and mostly worthless. And for digital collection it doesn't matter.
 
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Kids have already taken over everything. They dig out discs I bought and played 10-15 years ago. It pretty awesome. Long live physical media.
 
I'll all digital baby. This is what I expect will happen to my Valve account after I die, unless digital ownership laws change in the next 10-20 years and I find someone worthy of inheriting it.

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For a laugh, In my will I am going say that I am giving my game collection to my next of kin, and I am just going to have a Game Pass voucher in an envelope.
 
I'll be slowly selling off the rest of my older games and will have my digital accounts left. I'll give the info to mostly likely my nephews or niece depending what their relationship with games are. By then a lot of the games will be old and want it to go to either that appreciate older games and enjoy playing them still
 
Working on that right now actually. Selling all my stuff, but it will probably take me until I die to get rid of everything. Just physical stuff alone I am dealing with 2000k+ "units" between consoles games accessories etc. going back to 1976 (Inherited Atari's, Intelvisions, Colecos, etc).

To sell my digital stuff I would need to part with my accounts I guess.

And I keep buying new shit all the time...I have issues.
 
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