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sculd, do gaming w Ubisoft Can Delete Inactive Accounts, Making Users Lose Access to Their Games

If you are still buying Ubisoft games in 2023 you are part of the problem.

alehel, do gaming w Ubisoft Can Delete Inactive Accounts, Making Users Lose Access to Their Games

Isn’t this a GDPR requirement if enough time passes without account activity?

lloram239,

GDPR allows you to keep data as long as you need it to run your business, which in the case of online game store would be basically forever. The only data that has a time limit is stuff like log files and the like, which you might need to catch cheaters and hackers, but is useless after a few weeks or months.

alehel,

Ah, thanks for the correction.

esaru, (edited ) do gaming w Ubisoft Can Delete Inactive Accounts, Making Users Lose Access to Their Games

Why do people think they are “buying” something when in fact they are “renting”. Everything that’s not in your power is not in your posession, hence it’s not something you have bought. This counts for ebooks with DRM as well as those online games. Amazon and other companies call it “buying” to make people believe it’s equal to real books, games ect. in their posession, and people do believe it.

Quexotic,

Ubisoft appears to have just raised the white flag to all of the seafarers. Yarrrr.

Roundcat, do gaming w Ubisoft thinks it's okay to delete your games library now apparently
@Roundcat@kbin.social avatar

I'm starting to feel better about boycotting them after the unaddressed sexual abuse cases.

Kichae,

What are you talking about? They totally addressed that. Someone from HR even stepped down! /s

I used to work in a small Ubisoft studio, and while I was there one of the managers investigated an employee for sexual harassment. He took it super serious, and, as far as I can tell, did everything right. Then he took the case to HR and... Left the company about 6 weeks later.

The sexual harasser also left, eventually, but I think the order of things tells a story.

Ostermac, do gaming w Ubisoft thinks it's okay to delete your games library now apparently

Just like Steam. Stop simping for big game corp.

nakal,
@nakal@kbin.social avatar

Please explain. When did Steam delete a game from your library?

Norgur,

Or an account for inactivity

jcarax, do gaming w Ubisoft Can Delete Inactive Accounts, Making Users Lose Access to Their Games

It’s annoying enough that Netflix removes my account and watched history, after I go a few months without the service. But I still deal with it a couple times a year. This… this makes me just want to never touch anything Ubisoft ever again.

HurlingDurling,

Honestly I think I just have black flag on my goobysoft account and I haven’t plaid it for so long I don’t care if I loose my account, but if I ever want to play that game again and it’s gone, I will pirate the shit out of it

jcarax,

That’s an Assassin’s Creed game, yeah? I don’t know, I tried an AS game at one point, and just couldn’t get into it. I was excited for The Division for awhile, then it released. I wanted to like Far Cry, but didn’t like the mechanics. I really don’t see anything in their recent catalog that I give two shits about.

Gutotito, do gaming w Ubisoft thinks it's okay to delete your games library now apparently
@Gutotito@kbin.social avatar

As if we needed another reason to not buy Ubisoft crap.

Quexotic, do gaming w Ubisoft Can Delete Inactive Accounts, Making Users Lose Access to Their Games

So, if you want access to the games you paid for, you need to pirate them?

Contend6248,

Yes that, or skip the paying part.

Quexotic,

What does seem to make the whole process more efficient doesn’t it? LOL

Contend6248,

I mean they save their bandwidth, space for personal data and computing tasks and you safe money.

Win-Win

Quexotic,

You are cracking me up, internet friend.

query,

Definitely no reason to buy games if they can get away with pretending that you didn’t.

Ekis, do gaming w Ubisoft Can Delete Inactive Accounts, Making Users Lose Access to Their Games

People need to realize that you do not own the games that you buy from stores such as Ubisoft and Steam. You are renting these games at best. These companies can deny access to your games at any time they see fit. Whether it’s deleting inactive accounts, a change of policy, business going bankrupt or any act of god.

This is why I only buy games from stores such as GOG or itch.io where I actually receive a DRM-free copy of the game. It’s mine forever so long as I back it up; which is not hard to do since storage is so cheap nowadays.

BudgetBandit, do games w Grand Theft Auto 6 is Poised to Break a Huge Rockstar Tradition | Game Rant

Has „milking the same game for over ten years“ become a tradition by now?

Grass,

Haha my first thought too.

Fairy, do gaming w Ubisoft thinks it's okay to delete your games library now apparently

Apparently this is only for accounts with no games purchased/linked to them.

Norgur,

Until through some "error" ab account with games gets trashed. The reaction of Ubisoft's social media team is what worries me. They didn't go "no worries folks, this is just for empty accounts and we give warning even then". They went "we don't want this to happen, but y'all make us do it because you don't log in like we want you to".`

qwamqwamqwam, do gaming w Apex Legends Season 18: Revenant Reborn's New Gameplay Abilities Explained

I haven’t paid any attention to Apex since Catalyst. Could someone catch me up to speed on why Revenant needed such a huge rework? His kit always seemed quite situational but still usable.

bestnerd, do games w Total War May Want to Take the Dungeons and Dragons Universe for a Spin

Age of signage is perfect for this. Maybe do a different rule set instead of dnd, but could be awesome

DaCrazyJamez, do games w Total War May Want to Take the Dungeons and Dragons Universe for a Spin

I feel like DnD is really geard toward small group combat…i feel like epic battles of armies would feel very out of place in the forgotten realms

DelvianSeek,

Ok, maybe not Faerun, but just spitballing here - Total War: Blood War. Massive armies of devils vs demons, with yugoloth mercenary forces for hire, spread across the battlefields of the lower planes. Could tie in nicely with a re-release of Planescape as well…

Pxtl,
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Do WC3-style hero-driven RTS. Somebody needs to bring back Warlords Battlecry but with D&D branding.

soda3x, do games w Total War May Want to Take the Dungeons and Dragons Universe for a Spin

I want LOTR total war so bad

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