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You cannot take your digital loot with you. But in China, you can leave it to your kids. Courts there have started treating high-level gaming accounts and rare digital items as hard assets in a person’s estate. They are legally voiding the standard platform terms of service that insist accounts cannot be transferred upon death. The precedent stretches back to 2009, when a virtual weapon called the Golden Blade was legally classified as real property. By 2024, judges were routinely transferring 200,000-yuan gaming accounts and crypto wallets to grieving families just like physical real estate. The only thing firmly excluded from the will? Private chat logs. Those stay buried.