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Ubisoft claims they do not want their players to lose access to their accounts but it's pretty clear they do want to (so they can repurchase probably), otherwise they would not implement such feature 🤷

PS: Feels good I didnt buy any Ubisoft (and EA for that matter) in the recent years that requires their stupid launchers

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[-] teft@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago

🎶Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free. You are a pirate.🎶

[-] StealthToad@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Well that’s a song I haven’t heard in years

[-] queque31@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

Guess it's time to pirate the games I legally own and bought 🤷

[-] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago

And companies wonder why no one wants to use their shit over steam, case in point

[-] rodhlann@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago

30 days is not nearly enough time for me to see an alert sent to my spam email lol. I probably log in to my Ubisoft once a year, at most. This is ridiculous.

[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago

Wow, they'll save kilobytes doing this.

Kilobytes!

[-] mathlad@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

I never buy anything related to Ubishit. That company is the combination of greed, laziness, and bad decisions.

[-] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 19 points 1 year ago

I am glad you brought this up. I'd better log into Steam, GOG, and that other one or my games might go bye bye. That would piss me off royally.

[-] gk99@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Steam accounts don't disappear. My dad passed away about a decade ago and he's still on my friends list, account unchanged.

[-] Rogue_General@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago

Sorry for your loss. My younger brother passed away recently, I find myself browsing his steam profile sometimes.

[-] Kichae@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Ubisoft accounts didn't disappear either. Until now, apparently.

[-] SoNick@readit.buzz 3 points 1 year ago

@Kichae Yeah, but Ubisoft has a long history of sitting on the edge of anti-consumer. Valve hasn't entered that territory.

@ComeHereOrIHookYou @housepanther @gk99

[-] binboupan@lemmy.kagura.eu 2 points 1 year ago

Curious, what games did your dad own?

[-] azitopian@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

What a classy action. If only there were some process to get reimbursed for this consumer-hostile act of theft

Start going through their garages and taking things you don't think they've used in a while. Seems like a fair way to resolve it.

[-] azitopian@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah! They really haven’t driven their cars for a few hours so it only makes sense that we remove their access to them

[-] nakal@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure that would be against EU laws to revoke a valid purchase. Let's see how this turns out.

[-] ComeHereOrIHookYou@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I only knew about this via that website which got the news from twitter. I hope this gains huge enough traction for Ubisoft to change the policy from the backlash.

Although tbh, I am not expecting much, considering Ubisoft is trying to be the next EA these days.

[-] PM_ME_FLUFFY_SHIBES@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago
[-] pozbo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Another reason I have the company blocked on steam.

If I buy your game and after the download I have to ping your servers through a client to run the .exe I do NOT own that game.

That's about when I initiate the refund and block all companies listed in production.

[-] Wrench@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That’s about when I initiate the refund and block all companies listed in production.

Heroes of Might and Magic for me. Bought it, installed, saw I needed a 3rd party launcher, went through the hassle to create an account, got spammed with upsale bullshit once, Uninstalled and demanded refund. Steam was like "ok, fair enough"

Haven't bought a 3rd party launcher game since, except GTA which I didn't really understand that's what I was doing.

[-] orphiebaby@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

If you purchased a fucking game and they take it away because you didn't play it for X period of time, that is absolutely fucking illegal. Like, regardless of current practices, that is fucking illegal. You own what you buy, and everyone who says otherwise is just trying to scam you.

[-] Capricorny90210@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

A nice use case for web 3 gaming.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I had an Ubisoft account. I had the original Guildwars. Something screwed up, and they just deleted the game from my account.

I then had someone hack my account and try to steal it. The Ubisoft help desk actually got that sorted. Probably because I was online when it happened and instantly saw the email notification that the hackers changed my email.

Anyway. I changed my password to some super long phrase with numbers and capital letters and such, then never logged in again.

[-] JanoRis@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

When was Guild Wars ever an Ubisoft game. Don't remember NCSoft / Arenanet ever being affiliated with Ubisoft

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I had thought it was...

Maybe I was forced to make the ubisoft account for a different game?

Anyway. When my account was hacked, there were no games on it, so I said fuck it and never logged in again.

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