After years of playing and losing more than one really good friend here I think we should have an option to name another user or two to be able to take care of our account should we pass away.

They could send pets that we worked hard on to other people to continue our legacy. They could disburse our items, especially CWs we spent our real life money towards to people we care about that will cherish them. Most importantly they can notify our other friends of our passing.

I think this needs to be implemented into our subeta world. Being someone who has made her own little world her on subeta and spent time, money, and invested in this site I want to know without a shadow of a doubt when I pass that my little world doesn't just dissolve into nothingness. Yes I am aware that subeta will at times freeze a U.N. from being recreated, but in my mind that is not enough.

Sharing accounts is against the rules to start with. Even in this instance - inheriting an account still counts as sharing & multiaccounting, and you'd get frozen.

That aside, I understand the sentiment behind this. But I'm wondering how exactly would one confirm that a user has 100% passed away and hasn't just quit and gifted their whole account to somebody under the premise that they've passed away? ._.

Word of mouth would cause too many issues with people lying about their friend passing away and then getting all their stuff (or a person handing their whole account over to their friend because they've decided to quit Subeta), and requesting a death certificate seems too extreme and probing for a PG13 petsite.

I'm really sorry, but this seems like it would cause more issues than it's worth, to me. The site already keeps the username of a user who has passed away (and has been confirmed as such by their family and online friends) - nobody can claim it. I feel like that's enough.

I don't want people to befriend others in order to gets their pixel items if they pass away. I reallyreally don't want that mindset on Subeta.

I am sure if the staff thought about it long enough a proper system could be put in place. Taking necessary measure to ensure that a person has indeed passed. Even if it were the person's family member who was listed as the one to disburse items and such. Or we could implement a system of recording our wishes and have the option to turn in a list of what is to be done and what should be sent where. Even if that wish would be everything being dumped into the Donation center and pound, at least people would be able to have one last say.

Otherwise... this is a completely and utter waste of time and efforts in the long run. For a person with severe depression it makes me feel like what's the point of playing when the work and years and money are for nothing in the end. Not everyone would have to participate just those that actually care enough about this place.

I don't feel like this is something that needs to be staff's problem. And it's something I've thought of, and while there are some CWs I'd like to go certain places if I had the forewarning to take care of that myself, I don't really feel like it's something I need to leave to my family either. It's just a pet site. It brings me a lot of joy in life, obviously, or I wouldn't be here, but I mean, once I'm dead I'll no longer care about what happens to my pets/items/account because, you know, I'm dead.

I personally don't support this idea. I understand the sadness people associate with death, but I feel that this is wayyy too much for a little virtual pet site, fun though it may be. Determining death of a faceless user would be difficult, obtaining a death certificate is intrusive, as mentioned, and then divvying up items/pets amongst the friends is going to cause SO much drama. Imagine if one user thought they were getting a prized pet, then it turns out the pet goes to someone else? Stuff like that divides families irl, nevermind on the Internet where people are usually even more brutal behind their anonymity.

It's not for nothing, though. If playing Subeta now during your life brings you joy, then that's the point of playing. There are many things in life that can be considered 'wasteful' because they are left behind after one's death, but if they brought joy to the person during their life, then that counts for a lot. And that's all I'm saying on that because I don't want to get off topic.

Burry me with my money!

I can see where you are coming from. It would be awesome to have testaments saying that my massive hoard of sP goes to user 1, my price-less CWs go to user 2. and oh! 3! how could I forget you! Please, take the pets.

put it in actually readable sentences. Gone is gone bruh, lets not mess with those accounts ok? Many problems can appear like private CWs and items that were rewarded by a plot or a battle challenger and are exclusive... Trust me, the issues would be so much bigger than this good you are trying to make us.

I -love- memorial accounts, really do, but this is just too much.

It's a very sad subject but I don't think any game in general is doing any kind of program for deceased users.. I think the memorial is enough here.. In real life the will is a turning point, it can be great or it can awful and then you see the family is fighting over money, house and items.. I don't want to see it here too..

And again, that seems like way too much effort over a petsite. :/ A real life will involves tangible items. There's nothing tangible about Subeta, but there's plenty of room for drama, broken friendships and hostility over pixel items.

As for the point of playing... The point of Subeta (to me, at least) is having fun. The point is meeting people that you otherwise wouldn't have met in a hundred years. Make some memories with them, find friends that can distract you from depression for even a little while. At least that's why I play the site.

And if those friends happen to pass away, you keep them in a fond memory. You remember the good times you've had, you remember what kind of people they were. You try not to focus on the bad because that'll drag you under faster than you can snap your fingers.

Picking at a person's account for virtual items and currency and divvying up the spoils isn't really doing much to keep them in a fond memory. To me, it feels more like scavenging. And again - that's really not something I want on Subeta.

If it's something that really matters this much to you, add it to a real-life will and leave instructions to a family member to log into your account and distribute your items and pets. I really don't feel this should be Subeta's responsibility.

How would the site know the person anyone has registered is their family is actually their family? Anyone could easily register a second account, spend a while amassing items, pets, ect, and have themselves either recorded as their family/beneficiary.

And, as someone who went through losing a family member, I can assure you; no one wants to get a call from a pet site going '___ wasn't here for a while, are they alive or dead?'. It's been nearly a year, and we're still going through the stress and hardship of my Baba's will. You'd just be putting that much more stress and pain on the family of the deceased.

If you feel like that, you need to seek help. I felt like that a lot, too, and I'm currently on the road to getting better. And it feels better to get better. It can be scary and frightening, but it's worth it. Therapy's helpful, medication's helpful, finding out just how much you matter to people and how much strangers around you are willing to help you is a blessing.

Making a last will and testament for a bunch of pixels won't help you the same way getting a proper diagnosis and help will. Trust me on this; writing out what you're going to do with things you care about after you die only makes the depression worse.

i mean... if it's that important to you, you can work it out with your own friends on an individual level. personally, even if i had a very close friend or family member on subeta, i can't imagine saying to them, "hey just in case i die while this site is still around, here's my login info so you can deal with my account."

like... at that point i think there are more important things. but if you really want to, you can make those arrangements with your friends / family ahead of time. and staff have said before they definitely don't want to get involved with anything like this. it's just creepy tbh.

I just think people should at least have an option, even if it is just a system where they put their wishes down in a will and the site has to follow the person's wishes.

I can tell that many people don't feel the same way about the site as others. How about I put down my personal feelings and you can read into them however you like.

I'm a stay at home mother. One who has severe anxiety and depression to the point that I don't really leave home unless its an absolute necessity. I have very few outlets where I have an opportunity to be social or express myself. Subeta is one of those and while it is just a "pet site" to many, it's an entire world to others like me. If this were to be a face to face meeting with other people I wouldn't be talking right now. I'd be seated in the back ready to bolt at any second, or make an excuse to leave. Not many good things happen in real life so in coming here I get alot of joy. I also feel like people here treat me better than my own family. It may be meaningless pixel to some, but to me... I get to me the real me that is inside hiding from the physical world.

That is why I would like to know that if something were to happen to me (my health is poor as well) that something I worked on so passionately would be somewhat preserved.

Say your main hobby is painting, well wouldn't you want someone to pass on your very best and most treasured paintings even if it isn't something spectacular?

i just think that's something you should discuss with the people you want involved in that process. it doesn't need to be an officially-programmed thing on the site's end.

I really didn't think it was a bad idea. Sorry I'll just go away.

Lock this please someone.