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
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.
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FitGirl only demands you to prostrate before her and to be her sex slave.
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.
Had a blast with AC Valhalla too. Sure not really much of an AC game but it is fun to go raiding
Yeah people on the AC forums weren’t feeling it which made me feel left out but I loved Valhalla! Put many, many hours into it and still haven’t finished the story.
It’s very deep and fleshed out but also intuitive and easy to pick up and play, loved it. If I hadn’t lost my save I’d be right back playing bc I really want to finish the story but thinking of how many days I spent just to get as far as I did, and doing ALL of that over again is very overwhelming.
Wish I could find a saves for PC for every mission so I could just go back where I left off.
I’d even say Anno 1800 is easily one of my all-time favourite games. Ever.
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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But this isn’t about services like Game Pass - these were bought games.
It is service, which I agree is really shitty and shouldn’t be a thing. You’re buying access to a game, not a copy of the game.
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.
This is why Steam got the lion’s share. Ubisoft is mad disrespectful.
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.
How long is “too long”? If I lose my Anno empires I will shit bricks
Well guess I won’t be “renting” any games from them then. If I buy something it means I own it, in perpetuity. In fact I’m fairly certain Europe has laws against this, though Ubisoft will probably just have to pay a “fine” that is more a gentle slap on the wrist. We need to stop fining these companies, it does not stop them from breaking the law repeatedly. Stop arresting pirates, start arresting CEO’s.
If the EU slaps you with a fine, it’s usually not a slap on the wrist but something that seriously stings.
Except for the big guys. Didn’t Facebook have a portion on the side, for the expected fines? They still madr more money. If fines are just part of the business calculation, they don’t sting enough.
€1.2B fine and the threat of 4% of their turnover as fine if they don’t comply with the EU regulations. The EU does not fuck around and is not completely bought like the FTC.
It’s always ethical to pirate Ubisoft games
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.
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And then they wonder why they can’t compete with Steam and end up crawling back to Gabe for every game.
This is why I’m a big supporter of physical media if possible. Sure the actual game may not be on there or something because it’s too big or whatnot, however with what the hell is going on with digital companies in the modern videogaming world, yeah no they simply just can not be trusted much with the amount of power they hold. This includes but not limited to: Ubisoft, Steam, EA, Epic Games, etc.
EDIT: Yeah GOG is fine apologies for that, however the well majority of games in the digital world are simply just licenses that these companies have control of.
What’s wrong with gog? Just download the offline installer and do with it whatever you want.
That’s plain wrong for GOG, you can download it and burn it to a CD if you wish.
This is kind of my biggest fear with all these digital games platforms. I have over 2100 games over most of the platforms, it just became so easy to finally be able to get all the games I grew up salivating over. What’s to stop Valve or GOG suddenly “having” to make similar, or competely new changes of unbeknownst fuckery due to pressure from the spooky all-knowing investors?
They’re all going to go away eventually. Put your favorite games on storage to keep. You don’t have to install on your C drive.
Good luck dealing with DRM though. ~Strawberry
Goldberg Steam Emulator helps a bit (not sure if it’s only for ARM Linux devices though). Hit replicates the functionality that scheme client provides, so even if steam itself should disappear you still have that. That doesn’t really help with third-party DRM, but it’s at least something that could help in such an event
Eh most games don’t have it. And there’s ways to get around just about everything that does.
With GOG you can legally download installer files and put them where you want.
Be honest: you have forgotten 1500 of them already.
Probably closer to 2000 forgotten. But I collected them all goddammit!
Huh. I’ve got some games on Ubisofts store… Well, maybe not anymore.
You’ll have to explain to me why I shouldn’t just steal any future Ubisoft titles if they steal all mine first…
Yeah, was just thinking I should log in sometime. If it’s gone, I got it free off epic anyway, so no big loss, but also a better reason to sail them digital season.
If you got it from Epic then you probably still have it with Epic. You’ll just no longer have any achievements or playtime stats from Ubisoft.
At least, I hope.
Fair enough I suppose. It’s been so long since I played whatever it is, I can’t even remember what game it even is. All I know is the Ubisoft launcher is taking up space.
As if I give a fuck about anything on Ubisoft’s platform. Honestly it’s an annoyance that makes me never want to pay for their games again. I bought Assassins Creed Origins on Steam and somehow I still have to fucking use Ubisoft’s launcher. Fuck them. Great game, but fuck them anyway.
I will say, it could be someone hit a wrong button. My account isn’t available because I’ve got 2fa apparently, but it’s still there. I doubt even a big game company would be so stupid as to automatically delete a paying customer’s account.
I’d you already paid for them, it’s not stealing.
If I liked their games, I’d be quite upset, I’m sure.
