A Beijing court has ruled that online gaming accounts can be inherited after a player dies.
The case involved a gamer who died last year at the age of 36 and had built up 87 gaming accounts over more than a decade, along with valuable in-game items.
After his death, his mother asked Chinese developer Changyou to transfer the accounts to her, but the company refused, saying its user agreement does not allow accounts to be transferred and that the company owns the account data and virtual items.
The court found that while the company still owns the accounts, the right to use them has economic value because Gu had spent years investing time and money into them.
The court ruled that his mother could inherit the right to use the accounts and ordered the company to transfer their real-name registration to her.
@FlashMarvin@Wowhead They had 50% drop in the player base I dont think you understand how bad that is and classic wow is also losing players it fluctuates granted its prolly their successful game at the moment but the loss in player base is documented and still present
@MagrhimWoW@Wowhead No it isnt most the players there aren't even players just people botting you can keep believing that though its another reason why I left wow allmthe pvpers were just botting with honor buddy
@FlashMarvin@Wowhead Well no wow at its peak had 12 million players today its fallen to between 5 and 6 millions which in reality is very steep loss in players they are trying to bring people back into wow though I quit wow around the panda expansion it became trash and still is trash today
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