EVE General Discussion

Depends on the answer. It has potential to be very important.

Because if it's in a will and can be transferred to someone else, then it is an asset. Assets can be insured.

The real elephant in the room, is "OMG! The OP just figured out how to convert his huge stack of PLEX (and isk) to Real Money by "proving" that his Eve account is an asset and thus his insurance company has to pay out upon the loss of the account and/or its destruction." Dying or faking his death might not even be necessary.

Also, people don't like being reminded of their own mortality, hence why no one had the courage to ask previously.

Or just petition CCP for a ruling on it. I'm pretty sure they'd have the decency to honor such a thing. How they'd accomodate it is up to them, but I know *I* wouldn't want to be the guy who demanded $60 to transfer characters that a dying man wanted to give to a friend/family member.

Hey man, you're going to die soon-ish ?

Wow. That's ... well ... no idea how you're feeling about it,
but seems you're all good. At least, that's what i hope for.

Hey ... I promise i'll look to the other side when your pod passes me by on your way up.


Fly safe on your wings, mate. o7

False argument.



1)Depending on the state in the US you can legaly will your rental agreements to another person. However given the month to month nature of the EvE online user agreement CCP can argue that the "lease" terminates when the payed part of the subscription ends.



2) Credit card accounts are ususaly not transferable, and the debt transfers to the Estate. for example Jay and Lana have a joint mastercard and Jay has a Sears card in his name only, if Jay dies the debt on the card transfers to the estate but not the account. I use Sears in this case because they used to allow spouses to create there own account (if they could) and simply "Transfered" the debt to the suvivors card if that was how they wanted to handle it.(I think Sears has since stoped doing that)



3) Generaly the courts have tended to find that Death is an exception to how property or rights are normaly handled. Weird exeptions to the law and to general practice have come up all the time (a three year old "owning" property and or stock, including "adult buinesses"* with the relivant licences, and who was allowed to vote on the stock) that would not be allowed otherwise.



Or to put it another way, just because someone else died and the rights transfered to someone else dosent mean that you can do the same thing just because all of the parties involved continued to keep liveing



*as in you had to be over 18 or 21 to own-operate-licence said buisness,(IE a race track or refinery) not that it involved naked people in any way shape or form

Why doesnt the recipient of the OP's will just use some plexes and transfer his toon to a new account owned by himself? I'm sure thats legal, and CCP gets their share of the money. Everyone's happy.

I dont think CCP keeps track of who has passed away IRL so as long as CCP doesnt know when the OP died, the new owner could just transfer his inheritance to a new account using the OP's passwords. (slightly bending the rules here, but I think that would work)

What is surprising is that OP tried to sell his account here twice before, last time was march 2012.
And suddenly his 2 year old toon becomes so important that he wants to put it in his last will?
Cry fo help very much?
Sh*t, I hate it when stuff like this happens.....

Fixed.

I think the EULA would be interpreted as broadly as possible. If one person created the account, any other person logging into it is "account sharing" irrelevant of the status of the account creator.

It would be a bit cleared if the EULA had language like "Only the creator of the account may log into it". But there is also the issue that it is very difficult for me to transfer my characters and stuff to another person when I am dead.

I think there should be a means by which you could will your account to someone else in the event of your death.


Be nice to think your character may live on after you are gone

But failing that, then perhaps an in-game will that would distribute your in-game wealth to other in-game folks that you know upon death.