Michael @LegacyKillaHD
This is just horrifying.
Ubisoft CONFIRMS they will delete your account & purchased games if you go inactive for too long!!!
Ubisoft… WTF?! Another example of why I’m becoming more & more concerned with the death of physical games.
https://twitter.com/LegacyKillaHD/status/1682653876418224129
Ubisoft Support @UbisoftSupport
Hey there. We just wanted to chime in that you can avoid the account closure by logging into your account within the 30 days (since receiving the email pictured) and selecting the Cancel Account Closure link contained in the email. We certainly do not want you to lose access to your games or account so if you have any difficulties logging in then please create a support case with us. >> ubisoft.com/help
https://twitter.com/UbisoftSupport/status/1682046437834784768
What happened to owning something you’ve paid for forever?
These companies need to realize if they keep fucking over their paying customer, it’ll be more convenient for people to just pirate their product. At least FitGirl won’t knock on my door and demand me to delete his repack off my hard disk just because I haven’t visited his site in a while
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Yar har fiddly dee. Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free.
As “wrong” as stealing is, I find it more wrong that companies can keep fucking us over like this without reprimand. Triple A games are becoming more and more difficult to justify the new $70 price tag.
I haven’t bought a triple A game brand new since like 2014 or something. I wait until they have some sort of sale on them first. Literally didn’t buy Cyberpunk 2077 until very recently when they finally knocked it down to $30 a few weeks ago. It actually shocked me to walk by the games isle recently and see that triple A titles including yearly sports games are like $80 now. Crazy IMO. I might go back to reading books.
80 dollars!? I thought it just went to 70!
Nope, some of the ones I have seen the “base” version is $70. But to get a good experience or have a better chance at beating it, for the in-game upgrades one has to go for the “deluxe” or higher which is usually $80+. When I bought Riders Republic the cadillac tier of that game was like $140 or something.
$30 is still too much. I have my alarm set to $10.
Btw, there are lots of free eBooks too. I’m currently in the Jenkinsverse.
Since I have a Kindle if I feel like reading anything paid, sometimes I’ll subscribe for a month or two to Kindle Unlimited, read it, then unsubscribe.
FitGirl only demands you to prostrate before her and to be her sex slave.
This is why Steam got the lion’s share. Ubisoft is mad disrespectful.
They’re making the case for pirating games even better.
What fucking morons
I saw a great quote,
“It’s not pirating if buying it isn’t owning it”.
Piracy can’t be stealing if paying for it isn’t owning.
Piracy can’t be stealing when the supreme court of the united states says it isn’t stealing.
I like that quote a little better
And neither is it piracy.
piracy: robbery or other violent actions outside of the jurisdiction of any state.
Luckily, it can be understood as rebels/feighters for freedom too.
It’s definitely still pirating. I think the quote uses the term “stealing”.
Also you can steal services. For example imagine hacking the payment panel on an automated carwash so you don’t have to pay.
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Don’t feel bad about pirating AAA titles. See, the creatives and people that actually put work into the game have already been paid - usually at least. There are cases like Bethesda, who stole work from their composer - and so you’re not taking any profits from the people that matter.
Any money you’d pay to license a game would mostly just go to shareholders and greedy execs.
Yeah so their studio gets downsized, closed or merged. The big companies don’t care about the people. Tech lost 10k dev jobs last year, plenty of talent out there desperate.
And with the advent of AI tools and such much more work will be expected from fewer people. It’s a cutthroat industry that chews up passionate workers and spits them out when it’s done abusing them. The big companies definitely deserve to crash, and if a little bit of piracy can help induce that then I’m even more for it.
Yes but then again I’d be pirating Ubisoft games. Ain’t got time for that bloated crap.
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It’s always ethical to pirate Ubisoft games
How long is “too long”? If I lose my Anno empires I will shit bricks
Imagine buying something from these people after this.
Yes, sometimes I don’t play a game for 5 years, but I bought and own it, and I know it’ll be there when I come back to it.
…unless it’s Ubisoft, then purchases aren’t really purchases, and you don’t have any right to expect your property to be there when you get back 🤦♀️
You don’t own it, though. The same can happen on Steam, though they’re obviously not that shitty. The only store that lets you “own” games is GOG, that’s why you won’t find new games by shitty companies there.
There’s also itch.io.
They should email all the game keys when they shutdown the account, user OWN those, its their property.
This proves why we need to regulate that digital or not, games we purchase are considered our property. Not at the mercy of deletion for zero reason. Otherwise, pirate away for all I care guys. If they treat us like this, fuck’em and their sales.
If I liked their games, I’d be quite upset, I’m sure.
I’ve heard they are doing this to comply with things like GDPR. If that’s the case, and they are deleting accounts to not be storing personal information longer than allowed, then before closing your account, they should email you an encrypted bundle of your data that you could later send back to them to restore your account. It wouldn’t be against those laws if they send it to you to keep… and it would provide you with a path back to full restoration.
More garbage decisions from a garbage company
They said if you receive an email, it’s 30 days of no activity once you receive the email. Apparently it’s being sent to people who have been inactive > 1 year.
Still bullshit, you could be in prison, in a coma, travelling the world or just not gaming for a while and want to come back to it. I know I can go months without playing games and then picking it up again.
Ubisoft is a C tier developer/publisher who generally doesn’t get my dollars, although they have had some one-off hits in the last decade (Wildlands, Riders Republic, Anno games). I couldn’t be bothered to shell out $80 for the latest AC or Farcry copy and paste slog. Seems their servers are getting full. Doesn’t really inspire confidence in them as a service provider.
If they’re deleting inactive accounts it’s not because their servers are full, inactive accounts consume no resources!
One more company to add to my “Pirate Only” list
Don’t even bother playing. Their games have been shit for years.
Anno 1800 is pretty great.
A part of me wants to start spreading a #PirateUbisoftGames hashtag.
…but another part of me doesn’t want to bother because it’s just Ubisoft games lol
