I am almost certain they are not actually doing this and it’s just some ploy to get people to login to their long dormant accounts. I haven’t logged into my account in around a decade, but I just did today and all the games I bought are still there (a whopping 2).
I’ll never buy an Ubisoft game, I remember when years ago their games installed spyware on the browser (found it on my Firefox) . Pox on whoever thought that was a good idea
Legal =/= lawful. It’s possible to get away with things that are unlwaful, because they require civil lawsuits to prove and resolve, while things that are illegal are criminally charged automatically (at least in theory).
It isn’t, but don’t fret… there will be a huge lawsuit, they’ll settle for a few hundred million, which will roughly be less than 2% of what the company made. The lawyers suing will get their >75% cut and we all will get our .67¢ checks. /sarcasm
I know this is generally the case with lawyers getting all the settlement money, but I think due to people not signing up I actually recently got a $200 cheque from the Yahoo data breach settlement in the mail lol
I’m something of a patient gamer, and my wife has all the Assassin’s Creed games. A couple of months ago I decided to play Black Flag, as I remember her enjoying it back when it came out.
Got 46% of the way through the story, then a few weeks ago, completely out of the blue, Ubicunts pushed out a 2gb “update” for it, the sole purpose of which appears to have been to break it. So now I can’t finish it.
I feel like I missed something and need to try logging into the ubi account for the first time in a while. I don’t really wanna buy anything but if they delete the shit I own Im gonna be super pissed
I dunno, but I’m getting deja vu now from over a year ago. There was a story about them deleting accounts with games, followed by articles saying it was only for accounts with no games.
Either way I long since stopped caring about Ubisoft.
Companies don’t care about me and I do not care about them. Feels like a mutual agreement to me. That being said, no need to pirate right now, I just bought all the myst games. Awww yeee
Honestly, I have hope that this is how the world gets better. All these companies who’ve been making a mess of everything on reputations they’ve long outlived have gotten too comfortable and too bold. A few Ubisofts and Twitters will be good practice for the bigger ones.
Maybe we’ll even figure out that money only tells us where we go if we let it.
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I don’t even like a majority of their games enough to want to pirate them. 🤷🏻♂️
I agree. :) Haven’t played a ubisoft game for ages…
They used to have all the great games!
Yeah I know. Things really change…
I am almost certain they are not actually doing this and it’s just some ploy to get people to login to their long dormant accounts. I haven’t logged into my account in around a decade, but I just did today and all the games I bought are still there (a whopping 2).
Baiting for Nostalgia from the looks of it as a precursor.
I logged in for two reasons:
I didn’t even know if I had an account
If I have one do I have games on there
Turns out I have an account and one game on there
What is the upside to alienating your customers?
White wales will always pay and in high amounts. They’re more profitable than recurring customers.
I’ll never buy an Ubisoft game, I remember when years ago their games installed spyware on the browser (found it on my Firefox) . Pox on whoever thought that was a good idea
You would think that Ubisoft would try to keep their remaining customers. I can’t remember the last time I’ve pirated a titel of Ubisoft
well i guess no reason to come back for my ubisoft account after 5 years then… worst are the steam games that then spawn ubisoft launchers.
But seriously, just make gaming a subscription service at this point…
But they delete accounts after 4 years of inactivity, not 6 months.
If I buy a car and then go to out of state college and end up not driving it for 4 years, the dealership can take the car back? I think not.
Sorry that was me actually
Vroom vroom
I haven’t touched my Ubisoft account since 2013 before today. It’s still there with all my purchases intact.
Why does the sign flip?
If your account is older than 6 months it’s dead, along with its games.
Sure, but he shoots it when it’s less than 6 months?
Yeah you’re right, that’s what the image shows. But I think they were going for aiming at less than 6, shot dead at more than 6.
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Wait what!? That can’t be legal
Legal =/= lawful. It’s possible to get away with things that are unlwaful, because they require civil lawsuits to prove and resolve, while things that are illegal are criminally charged automatically (at least in theory).
It isn’t, but don’t fret… there will be a huge lawsuit, they’ll settle for a few hundred million, which will roughly be less than 2% of what the company made. The lawyers suing will get their >75% cut and we all will get our .67¢ checks. /sarcasm
Capitalism sucks a huge bag of dicks.
I know this is generally the case with lawyers getting all the settlement money, but I think due to people not signing up I actually recently got a $200 cheque from the Yahoo data breach settlement in the mail lol
I wasn’t the one who made this meme so idk. It was probably just a small mistake by the original creator.
Your mean like… God?
Seed
…because the account isn’t yet 6 months old in the first panel?
Then why is he shooting it
…because the account is 6 months old in the second panel. Honestly not hard to understand.
No you’re right, it is easy to understand, just nonsensical.
He shoots it at the transition from <6 to >6
I’m something of a patient gamer, and my wife has all the Assassin’s Creed games. A couple of months ago I decided to play Black Flag, as I remember her enjoying it back when it came out.
Got 46% of the way through the story, then a few weeks ago, completely out of the blue, Ubicunts pushed out a 2gb “update” for it, the sole purpose of which appears to have been to break it. So now I can’t finish it.
I hate Ubisoft.
I feel like I missed something and need to try logging into the ubi account for the first time in a while. I don’t really wanna buy anything but if they delete the shit I own Im gonna be super pissed
It’s apparently only for accounts that haven’t bought/received anything. So empty libraries.
No they’ve been deleting accounts with games, that’s why this is so controversial.
Got a source for that? From what I’ve read the official stance is that if the account has any purchased games its not eligible for deletion: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23805783/ubisoft-delete-game-accounts
I dunno, but I’m getting deja vu now from over a year ago. There was a story about them deleting accounts with games, followed by articles saying it was only for accounts with no games.
Either way I long since stopped caring about Ubisoft.
So it was a non-story back then as well?
Yes that’s what I’m saying.
People going mad about this and it’s complete non-issue.
Piracy? No it’s Surprise Ownership!
😎
and it’s quite ethical
Companies don’t care about me and I do not care about them. Feels like a mutual agreement to me. That being said, no need to pirate right now, I just bought all the myst games. Awww yeee
Mine are still there after over a year of not touching my account.
Why are people getting outraged for empty accounts (with no games ever) getting deleted
Because sensational news headlines/articles
Which is still less worse than people getting outraged over headlines instead of reading the articles
It’s not just empty accounts, according to one user
Which does not make a static nor proof, more so since Ubisoft said they will delete just empty accounts
According to one person, that likely made it up for fake internet points.
Most likely just pick up by a bot in error, sometimes that happens… sounds more like the exception rather than the rule
Alternatively would people do that? Just go onto the internet and lie.
What’s the context of this?
Ubisoft is allegedly closing accounts that are inactive for a period of time, regardless if they have purchases on them or not.
I’m not sure if this is a recent change or if Ubi has come out with an official statement. This is just what I’ve seen going around today
It’s been like this for years. I’m pretty sure I’ve gotten the inactive email back around 2014 and I just log back in.
It’s a dumb policy from them and Origin, but it’s nothing new. Far from it.
Misinformation that has since been debunked.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23805783/ubisoft-delete-game-accounts
I don’t really care about a corporation that makes the epitome of mediocre games, but let’s criticize them for real things rather than fake things.
https://kbin.social/m/gaming/t/239081
Honestly, I have hope that this is how the world gets better. All these companies who’ve been making a mess of everything on reputations they’ve long outlived have gotten too comfortable and too bold. A few Ubisofts and Twitters will be good practice for the bigger ones.
Maybe we’ll even figure out that money only tells us where we go if we let it.
My favorite example of this is this nintendo skit