A decade or so ago, Ubisoft was constantly complaining about PC gamers pirating its titles. The French company was so frustrated with pirates that a number of iconic “Ubisoft vs PC pirates” GIFs flooded the market. And last week, Ubi gave PC gamers another big reason to simply pirate its games.
Twitter’s AntiDRM has shared the following email. According to it, Ubisoft will suspend your account if it’s inactive for some time, and then permanently close it after 30 days.
https://twitter.com/PC_enjoyer/status/1681655629276930048
According to Ubi, accounts that are inactive for less than 4 years are safe, and won’t receive such an email. Moreover, if someone does receive such an email, they’ll be able to cancel its closure by clicking on a link.
Let’s start with the obvious here. Scammers and hackers can easily use this template in order to create phishing emails. I know, I know, people shouldn’t be clicking on everything they receive in their emails. However, Ubisoft’s email feels like a phishing/fake email, and that says a lot.
What’s also funny here though is that PC pirates will still be able to enjoy Ubi’s games, without the need to use a Ubisoft account. This is another case in which pirates get a better experience than legitimate owners. So, instead of rewarding its customers, Ubisoft is giving everyone another reason to pirate its games. It’s hilarious, really.
So, imagine this scenario. Imagine wishing to try the first Assassin’s Creed game on your PC after a decade or so from now. Why you say? Well, why do people still play older games? You then launch Ubisoft Connect, just to find out that your account was closed. Now, the only way to play the game you had previously purchased will be by pirating it.
This is one of the reasons why a lot of gamers are against digital-only purchases. It’s also why a lot of gamers miss the 90s, during which you didn’t need an EA/Ubi/Steam/EGS/Battlenet account to play your game. You simply installed the game on your PC and started playing it. Plain and simple. Okay okay, all games back then required the presence of the game CD/DVD (which is why some used no-CD/no-DVDs cracks with their legitimate copies). In a way, even back then, PC piracy was offering a more “comfortable” experience. And things got even worse in today’s age with all the DRMs that plague modern-day games.
So yeah, GG Ubisoft!
UPDATE:
Ubisoft has stated that accounts that include purchased PC games are not eligible for deletion. As the company told WCCFTech.
“Account deletion follows a very strict process. As such, we take into consideration the 4 following criteria before an account is deleted:
- The gaming activity of the account since its creation
- The account’s libraries: accounts that include purchased PC games are not eligible for deletion
- The duration of inactivity of the account, meaning the last login to our ecosystem (including from Ubisoft games on Steam and other platforms)
- In practice, as of today, we have never deleted accounts that have been inactive for less than 4 years
- The existence of an active subscription tied to the account.
In any case, before the deletion is permanent, three emails are sent to the player over a 30-day period offering to restore their account. In addition, if the user tries to log in during the 30-day window, they will automatically receive a warning and a link to reactivate their account.”
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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its fine because you created a account on platform you have to use it, whats the point then creating, i think ubsioft is not wrong they just care about their customers & love them so they don’t miss their next gen big goty titles
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Sarcasm is hard to spot generally in the interwebs, is close to imposible to spot if english is not your forte. I chose to beliee you are being sarcastic.
The good sarcasm leaves everyone wondering. The really good sarcasm even relinquishes the desire to farm likes for the sake of delivering on the quality sarcasm, the really good stuff.
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Why is this exploding out of proportion again ? This was debunked fake years ago. They will delete an inactive account with free games only after 6 months of inactivity.
Yes it’s not like they could of implement this over those years. Noooooope.
And I thought they couldnt get more scummy…
If you pirate just pirate, don’t make lame excuses to justify it.
If you hate gamers, you hate gamers, don’t make lame excuse to justify it.
I couldn’t complain if it was after 4 years of inactivity (think about how much that is) + 3-6 months notifying the user every 15 days by mail.
If you don’t reactivate after that much, it’s probably because you definitely are dead.
What if you’re cryogenically frozen and plan to come back to play them in a few hundred years?
Well you got a point!
Who cares, their games aren’t even worth pirating. Take my games and fck off Ubishaft.
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Hahahahahaha
It really is hilarious that the biggest complainer about piracy keeps going out of their way to promote piracy because their head is stuck up their a*s and they don’t even know it. In 2012 the Ubisoft CEO accused 95% of PC gamers as being pirates. Is it any wonder that there is so much pirating of Ubisoft games with anti-consumer policies like this one from Ubisoft?
The warning is pretty clear. If you do like going back and replaying some games from years past and you don’t use your Ubisoft account for long stretches then don’t buy from Ubisoft.
The Ubisoft apologists will say that they do warn you first but how many emails get overlooked? With me it does happen sometimes.
on top of that ubisoft doesnt fix their old games to work on new pcs, so you have to mess around with fixes.
Gave up and went with RPCS3, their ports were bad enough back then.
You did zero research on this and just posted what others have said, without checking.
The Article is plain wrong.
No, some parts of it are wrong but not the entirety of it.
I don’t know if it’s intentional or not, but that joke is very German.
Where are you from?
I’ll worry when they make games worth of buying. Until there, they can Suk Madik!
Earlier this year, I downloaded AC Black Flag that I bought from their trash launcher years ago, then it asked me to type my password to start the game, thought it was a one time thing cause I didn’t used that cr@p for a long time. Then I noticed I had to type my password everytime when launching the game, did some search and found that those POS added a drm that requires your password to play old games, every fuc%$# time. So I deleted the game and their launcher, and downloaded the p1r@ted version with all dlcs, and played that way. Fu%# ubitrash, hope these POS go bankrupt.
they said no long time ago that pc was their bigger gaming market even more than console , their terrible management and leadership in company is punishing their users, so so stupid they treat their main costumers like that
GDPR says you need to have a reason to keep peoples personal information stored.
So if you have some sort of inactive account on a website that you will never access again they can tell you that they will delete your personal information if you don’t login again.
This is great since it means that even if they get hacked your personal information is no longer there.
It doesn’t mean you have to delete their personal information or accounts if you have a reason to keep it.
You can also choose to keep the account, but delete the personal information.
You can also give a person their cd keys so they can add their products back to a new account later.
Every store is allowed to delete your license to a game.
So technically and legally Ubisoft can do this.
It is still very wrong and Ubisoft is trying to blame GDPR for this.
However GDPR is not to blame, only Ubisofts implementation.
several comments saying ubi released a statement saying if you have purchased any games, among other considerations, your account will never be deleted.
Even though you bought a digital copy of a game you don’t own anything just the rights to use the software. It works the same with any other, Amazon, Steam, Epic, Apple, etc.
Why would anyone dislike my comment here? I stated facts. Years ago people took Amazon to court for deleting accounts that purchased music and movies and as I said it was exactly as I said you don’t actually own the digital media but only the rights. They can even legally delete your account. It’s sad but another reason not to support DRM.
Wow Ubi way to make people hate you even more. Once I complete AC origins I will never think about buying or playing an ubi game ever again.
Excuses…
What is the point of deleting your games? All you fools defending this. Please explain, what is the reason to take away my games just because I haven’t logged in years? I bought your product , who gives a flip about what I do with it if I decide to never touch it in 6 years that’s none of your business… What my account info takes up server space lol.. seriously what is the point of this ?
they are not yours they belong to the corporation.
when is the last time this sh**ty company released a good game??? they aren’t even worth to pirate , F*** them !
all their games are garbage even themself confirmed saying all was a disappointment, was in their fiscal meeting
beyond good and evi,l the first three splinter cell games, the first two prince of persia games.
I’d have to agree with this. At least 20 years ago.
Nah Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag was a decade ago and no way that game can be classified as trash…. Personally it was the last good game from them imo. I didn’t hate Origins it was new the setting was sweet it seemed like it could coexist with the originals (instead it replaced them unfortunately).
YUPP!!
Ubisoft used to be good 15 years ago, now it’s bad in every way!
Blood Dragon, 10 years ago.
i stopped playing ac after black flag, it was so boring so i cant tell you if the newer ac games are good but everyone says the old ones were good.
I liked far cry 5 for its gameplay not the story , it did not have towers and it had unique side quests instead of repetitive stuff. The rest of their series ESPECIALLY what they have done to tom clancy games is an abomination.
I enjoyed immortals fenyx rising for the first 5-7 hours because they actually put some new stuff in the game like puzzle dungeons but then it got so boring i never finished it.
I dont see the reason to be excited for a new ac game, its gonna be like the last 3 but with a different setting or a re trending of the old games. To play all the previous ac games that i missed, i propably gonna have to spent like 500 hours, valhala alone with dlc takes over 100 hours so all 3 together is over 300 hours and then you got unity syndicate and rogue and we get to 500 hours. I specificly dodge games that look too much like ac, eg mordor, mad max, horizon. So i dont see why anyone should care about ac or division and ghost recon which is just third person destiny at this point.
rayman legends
Huh? people where playing last few of their so called “games”? What!?…they where even paying for them!….nah can’t be true
i dont get how anyone can be excited for an ubisoft game, to the people who do, have you not played the last 3 of the series? Because there is no difference.
The number of folks defending Ubish*t is quite baffling. No surprise then how their reskinned AC and Far Cry games are still selling to this day. I will never listen to another Ubish*t fanboy again.
surprised they exist.
It’s not about defending Ubisoft, it’s people pointing out baloney and hypocrisy.
Steam will force a user to log in online after just a few weeks to access their games. Steam also has native DRM wrappers and downloads Denuvo for most games on top of it. This is all fine apparently.
Ubisoft says they temporarily will deactivate an account that has been inactive for years to protect personal data, in accordance with DRM legislation. They also say a simple email can undo this. And somehow this excuses the anti-Ubisoft outrage? To the point John and others are actively promoting piracy? Baloney.
It’s not about defending Ubisoft, it’s people pointing out baloney and hypocrisy.
Steam will force a user to log in online after just a few weeks of playing games offline. Even changing PC is enough for Steam to force you to log in with a new e-mail code. Steam also has native DRM wrappers and downloads Denuvo for most games on top of it. This is all fine apparently.
Ubisoft says they temporarily will deactivate an account that has been inactive for years. They also say a simple email can undo this. And unlike Steam that forces you connect online after a few weeks to make you buy new games, Ubisoft literally does it only after years and does it to protect user’s personal data, in accordance with GDPR legislation. And somehow this excuses the anti-Ubisoft outrage from John and others who are now actively promoting pirating Ubisoft games. Baloney.
I think the problem here is that with ubi, if you somehow missed those 30 days deadline, all your legitimately purchased games are gone, permanently.
That is not true. They don’t ever delete accounts with purchased games. They also have publicly stated that they’ve never deleted an account that has been inactive for less than four years
Yes, so the accounts older than 4 years get deleted as you point out as well.
No. They have to be inactive for more than four years. So only accounts that haven’t played any games in over four years and haven’t bought any games.
that’s false, accounts that bought games are never deleted and never have, it’s about accounts with free games
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that doesnt make it better
dafuq
Yeah the latter is what annoys me stop buying it so they learn. I don’t see how they can botch Far Cry so bad they need some fresh people on it. 3 and 4 with a shout to blood dragon was sick. I know some don’t like 4 I don’t get why I played start to finish. 5 had cool “big bads” and crappy boring setting, NPCs, gunplay, cars.. everything else just about. FC6 wow FC6 let’s start with the one plus the supremo weapons was a good idea very lazily implemented they could have done SO much more. Horrid story, everything looked the same and felt empty in every aspect. They must of spent all the money for the protagonist intellectual property/face and had none left to flesh the character out. Wish it was my IP and I had the funds for such a endeavor I’d make a Far Cry game people would want to play.
biggest problem with far cry 6 is not the gameplay, its the writing, this problem wont be fixed if they made the gameplay diffirent.
You forgot to add that 5 story was boring and the whole story just felt rehashed from itself.
if it was up to me id copy mercenaries and boiling point and let you side with different factions to change the story like new vegas. or the gothic series. Much better than “you play as the resistance”…again.
This should be a non issue for caucasoids, these “people” openly and publicly hate you and want you “gone”, since you do not hate yourself you have NOT bought one of their products in the last dacade or so, right?
But, but, but DRM le bad!! Yes, yes and that’s one of the reasons why you have not given any monies to them in the last decade or so, right?
Just wait until Timmy Tencent from Epicgames or Ubisoft itself gives it away, for anything else you know what to do if you care enough.
Ubish*t
You should add the response of Ubisoft to your clickbait article.
1) They only do this if “we have strong reasons to believe that the account in question will remain unused.”
2) You can reactive the account with a simple email.
3) They do this in accordance with GDPR, where they don’t want to store private data for years when it is not necessary.
how do you play ubisoft games for certain 10 years from now?
By getting the Ubisoft games that are on GoG, just like any game.
Steam, Epic, Activision, Blizzard, Ubisoft, EA, etc…they offer games as a service, a service tied to a launcher and online DRM. They offer 0 guarantee you can still play them in X years.
However, just because some games aren’t available offline, doesn’t mean you have a right to start pirating them.
I also disagree with the disproportionate attack from John on Ubisoft and his argument that you should pirate Ubisoft games. Steam locks users out of their game library if they simply don’t log in a few weeks, and he’s silent on that. Ubisoft deactivates an account (which can be reactivated with an email) after years, and for actually good reasons like GDPR privacy, but John starts another baseless attack on Ubisoft. John knows he can not afford to attack Steam like that. It’s hypocritical.
far cry 4 is almost 10 year old, there is no gog version and the game has issues on modern cpus with too many threads.
So they are being lazy, cutting cost and using complience with GDPR as an excuse.
This is easily proven by looking into the GDPR data rentention guidelines.
Also, this is the lamest excuse to argue people should pirate games.
If you are going to pirate a game, then pirate a game. Don’t try to pretense and whitewash it with a lame excuse. It’s like people robbing a store and saying they are “underprivileged” and that somehow entitles them to steal and rob electronics.
the pirate copy is more playable than this.
Lastly, there are plenty of options to buy games without DRM.
There are over 6,000 games on GoG, all without DRM and installable without a launcher.
Never has there been more choice to buy DRM-free games.
You paint a picture where you reminisce of the 90s where you installed a game without DRM and without a launcher. That is still possible.
It’s not a great excuse to start pirating games from studios that do use DRM. In fact DRM exists because of a minority who steals games.
There are plenty of businesses I don’t agree with. I don’t resort to stealing from them, I just buy somewhere else.
far cry 2 is the last ubisoft game i got from gog because the non gog version had drm issues and bluescreened my amd dual core at the time due to drm, so i had to run it on a single core.
ubicrap wont put old games on gog.
Your life sounds boring.
Your life sounds boring.
Keep signing up for those “services”, folks.
Don’t worry, only Ubi are dogs**t, the rest of the companies are your best friends, who would never, ever do anything out of line with things you paid for. 😆
Steam + DRM + Denuvo + Forced launcher = good
Ubisoft = bad
-dsogaming
Interesting YouTube poll – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoIXnB865l9Ex9zs4OIXTdQ/community?lb=Ugkx___QE_PDvFKb0GFEeKR6-s3I-owfeEvj
While currently at 52k votes, If you play games on PC, which store front/launcher are you using the most?
Steam 89%
Epic Games Store 3%
Microsoft Store 3%
GOG 2%
A different launcher not listed here 3%
Links and comments with “harsh” language always enter moderation mode. Imagine if that wasn’t the case. There’d be countless links from bots 😛
So are you going to update the article? Or are you just going to leave up your clickbait trash?
Huh? The story has already been updated with new info.
John, why do I need approval for posts containing a YouTube link?
Without the link to the YouTube poll –
While currently at 52k votes, If you play games on PC, which store front/launcher are you using the most?
Steam 89%
Epic Games Store 3%
Microsoft Store 3%
GOG 2%
A different launcher not listed here 3%
honestly at this point just pirate old ubisoft games they are not worse than the newer ones, they are better, better made ,not woke better optimized or less woke.
Dont buy any more ubisoft games until they stop making them so reskinned repetitive woke unoptimized drm trash.
Now that we are done bashing ubisoft, you dont really own any games nowadays. So whats the point of buying?
“You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy”
Well, at least in Game Industry, this is already established and normies seems happy
The future is magnificent
Let them release their games and it’ll be the final nail in their coffin.
After that Watch Dogs PC nerf I haven’t purchased much from them since. Don’t care to pirate crappy ports or anything for the most part nowadays outside of ROMs. I purchased Division 2 for around $5 on sale and I will say that I did like the game and it was one of their better PC ports. They should be ashamed of themselves with this policy though.
Ubisoft games for the most part are not even worth the bandwidth spent on pirating. I just wait and build my collection based on freebies. Wouldn’t mind the crew 2 or riders republic for free.
Steam + DRM + Denuvo + Forced launcher = good
Ubisoft = bad
-dsogaming
Big corp bootlickers everywhere.
There’s millions of Steam bootlickers.
my nword in christ, ubicrap does all of those things.
You gonna update this with the official response from Ubisoft or you gonna leave it as is on purpose as clickbait?
Criteria taken into consideration:
The gaming activity of the account since its creation
The account’s libraries: accounts that include purchased PC games are not eligible for deletion
The duration of inactivity of the account, meaning the last login to our ecosystem (including from Ubisoft games on Steam and other platforms)
In practice, as of today, we have never deleted accounts that have been inactive for less than 4 years
The existence of an active subscription tied to the account.
lol stop simping for ubishite
Calling out lies is simping?
you’re the one blindly following something (the hate)
I didn’t see any lies called out. Someone simply confirmed that yes UbiShit does delete the inactive accounts but after 4 years of inactivity and only if they’re free games on the account.
UbiTard.
dude I don’t touch ubisofts sh**ty services, my 2fa protected account got accessed (by not me) a while back and since then I’ve sworn off using their sh*t, if 2fa means nothing on their services I can’t trust sh*t, but if you’re gonna blindly hate cause “f*k AAA” you’re way sadder than anyone else here.
This article is straight up lying. Ubisoft does not delete accounts of people who purchased games.
only those who got them for free so they can buy them and give ubisoft money, proving PIRATING IS BETTER THAN BUYING OR GETTING A UBICRAP GAME FOR FRE.
Lol
its disgusting behavior he downvoted my posts too, what a shill.
I said “ubisoft has not put their games on gog since far cry 2” and he downvoted me.
disgusting? oh no not the internet points, maybe re-evaluate what you think is important dude.
imagine you downvote someone bot because they said something wrong or you dont like them, but because you like ubisoft so much.
Its digusting.
I downvote when I disagree, the enire point of the system lol. Maybe refer to my other reply where I said I don’t even buy their stuff, they just haven’t made anything I’ve cared to buy in the last like 5+yrs.
It must be sad to just go on blindly hating things and seeing everything in extremes.
I don’t care about companies I just care about fun games, I barely pay attention to the dev/publisher and it certainly isn’t a factor when I buy games. A good game can come from a dev/pub with a good history, a bad history, or no history at all, same with bad games. It really isn’t worth caring about who made what, it literally makes no difference to me.
Finally, it’s still really sad to care about internet points dude.
it must be sad disagrees with facts such as that ubisoft has not put any games on gog since far cry 2.
you dont care? Far cry 2 blue screened my amd dual core unless i run it on a single core, it was the drm.
How can you not care what these companies are doing?
if you dont care about ubisoft or their games, why even comment on this article and read the comments? Talk about being sad online.
Aren’t you just desperate to be “right” or to look “cool” or something dumb like that.
Google news recommended this article, got to the comments read them and most are people on the anti AAA bandwagon taking any opportunity to hate on the big guys but several were pointing out the same thing “only if you’ve never bought a game” like who cares if an account with 0 value to it hat hasn’t been touched in 4yrs, not a cent was spent and if nobody has touched the account in such a long time it’s a safe assumption nobody would, or should, care.
“good” is subjective, but you also must be illiterate since I said they haven’t released anything I’ve wanted in 5 or so yrs. I also don’t really care about gog, to me it’s just for old games (like it says on the tin) while drm free guarantee is kinda nice I like the convenience of steam, getting achievements is fun, constant sales, and like half if not more of my games come from humble monthly which are steam/epic(gross)/ea.
dual core? you could probably find a working quad core with hyperthreading in the trash somewhere, and if you’re referring to a past pc, damn you hold onto a grude it must SUCK to be you, also if you bought the game and drm stopped it from working properly just pirate a patched version.
I agree drm sucks and it’s really pointless if someone was gonna pirate it they aren’t about to go “oh, guess I’ll buy it then” rather than waiting the 1 to 3 days most games seem to take to get cracked, like a week MAYBE a month on the long side, meanwhile the drm costs to make/lisence so it makes the game cost more, probably delays it as well but it isn’t worth caring personally because it generally doesn’t affect me and I can’t do anything about it anyway so it’s not worth wasting energy on.
how can I not care, I have a life and I don’t want to waste it in bullshit drama.
I’m mostly sick of people thinking they’re cool for BLINDLY following hate because lots of people are hating (so it must be true right? no need to do your own thinking, might as well scoop that brain out if you’re not gonna use it), my original comment was purely about the article lying (in response to someone calling it simping because it wasn’t hating on ubisoft, which is absurd and a hilariously lame take), you and others pushed the narative that not hating on ubisoft in these comments must mean they love and shill ubisoft, you people need to f*king learn that everything is on a scale it’s not one or the other, there’s always 1 or more options inbetween the extremes that people like you and the hatemongers down here pretend are the only possible thoughts/positions.
how can you not hate on ubisoft at this point? From releasing the same game over again, to keeping the prices of their old games high so you are discouraged from buying an old game for cheap to see if you like their series, so you better buy now, from endless dlc and microtransactions to awful optimization, awful drm, removing stuff from their games because some morons on twitter got offended, no way to put them back, sexual harassment scandals, awful woke writing, repetitive gameplay, grind fest gameplay, removing old games so no one can buy them or play them, not putting their games on gog, (is far cry 3 or assasin creed 2 on gog? nope) to using a crack to patch crashes in rainbow six vegas 2, to always online to taking down the servers of said always online games so no one can play them and now this, you cant even play their games if you got them for free and did not play them for years so no point getting them even for free and that is if they dont delete their account.
Also wtf is wrong with you? You say you dont care about ubisoft and havent played their games in 5 years but if you had given a game of them for free you wont be able to play it now and your account would be deleted WHY YOU DEFEND THIS? I am litteraly telling you the drm in far cry 2 made my pc bluscreeen until i disabled one of the cores and then it run at half fps. So when the fck i am suppose to play/complain about their games?
Back when they come out X
Years later after release that they still cost too much and they are broken on new hardware X
When they have their servers taken online and my account deleted? X
Seriously wtf is wrong with you, its the wrost company out htere and you say “OH YOU BLINDLY HATE THEM” Like who the fck am i suppose to hate?
“BLINDLY following hate because lots of people are hating (so it must be true right? ”
Evidently it is and you are in denial ” you just desperate to be “right” or to look “cool” or something dumb like that.”
“no need to do your own thinking, might as well scoop that brain out if you’re not gonna use it), ”
Get a mirror tard.
I can no care because they’re just a company and I’ve never put value in one so and you CANNOT hate what you don’t value, you put so much value in them, you care sooo much, and me I just play games. I barely register who makes them, if it’s a good game it’s good for it’s a bad game it’s bad.
also if I had gotten a game for free I would be able to play it, and I believe my ubi account has a couple games I got for free, because I bought a couple games so my account that I may never use will exist so long as ubisoft provides those services because I gave the company a reason to care even the tiniest bit (mostly bacause it would be illegal to delete it).
you got a bonus a while ago and you feel entitled to always have access to that bonus, how about get a life, if you REALLY think you’re owed that thing you got free years ago and left to rot for years then pirate it, I really couldn’t care less since I don’t value companies I value products, seriously you look just like those feminists and LGBeTc. screaming opression and injustice when someone uses the “wrong” word and they’re so incredibly weak they can’t just move tf on and live their gd life.
oh and everyone here seemed to agree with the article saying ubisoft deletes account that haven’t had a cent spent on them (the part conveniently left out by the article to flare up hate) or touched in 4yrs means pirating is the only right option, like f*k go ahead and pirate I don’t f*king care but this is some flimsy a*s reasoning.
why you dislike my posts r3tard? Do you work for ubisoft? How does ubic0ck taste in your mouth?
“So yeah you got some free games but wegonna delete your account and your progress in those games forcing you to buy them”
This is like begging to you to pirate their crap instead of getting them even for free. Its the DEFINITIVE cracked pirated version> official legitimate version argument proving Gabe Newell’s point that piracy is service issue.
Lol you’re an idiot
Coming from someone who can’t even use punctuation. You to are an idiot.
Too*
and you are retard3d
Ah, Gabe Newell.
The guy who brought DRM to PC and built it into Steam.
The guy who forces people to use Steam’s proprietary launcher.
The guy who gets $54 million a year from selling loot boxes in CSGO.
Your idol, Gabe DRM Newell.
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mate, are you r3tarded or something? Steam doesnt delete your account.
So they still delete the inactive accounts but after four years.
fake news, well done using some pirate c0ckroach as article source
John wonders why he can’t get review copies when he promotes pirate accounts and lies about Ubisoft.
Ubisoft shouldn’t be part of any serious gamer’s diet anyway
This is the reason I always buy games on GOG whenever possible. Avoid DRM like the plague, it will only take your games away in the long run.
Also never rely on multiplayer component staying alive, suits shut that down too.
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4 years ago I made the decision to stop bugging steam, Ubiconnect, EA play or any games that uses launchers and more and more I do NOT regret this decision. If it ain’t on GoG or DRM-Free I have no interest in the game. But even though people know Ubisoft does this, it ain’t stop THEM from buying Assassin’s Creed 23 or Ghost Recon 18.
They will delete accounts with free games on them. Why do click bait nonsense. You have to be inactive for years. This guy basically didn’t log in for ages, didn’t actually buy any actual games then whined when he got an email.
Also to the people going “what if you miss those thirty days” – that is a you problem that you aren’t checking your emails and the like. If you have made no purchases and your account is just sitting there doing nothing why should they keep it? At some point it ends up looking like you obviously don’t want the account anymore.
so you got some free games and then they gonna delete your account so you can buy them? How is this better? This screams “PIRATE MY GAMES”
They make games that are only free. Like what is I you don’t grasp about the inactivity for 4+ years aspect here. If you give up an entirely free game (and I’m talking trials, demos, etc) and never touch the platform for 4 years in all likelihood you either have pirated the game already or you aren’t coming back to it.
Literally simply having ubisoft connect launch and connect when your computer starts avoids the entire thing to begin with..
Having the launcher automatically connect at startup is like having to use the toilet first thing in the morning.
Having the launcher connect automatically at startup is like taking a p00p first thing in the morning.
i come back to games after 4 years , some of them are so long that they get tiresome after a while, what if you are doing a series marathon? Or mod it, or maybe it is ac unity which was given for free because it flopped but my gpu was not good enough to run it back then, stupid arguments.
Free games on a platform you didn’t come back to for four years if you purchase one single game you are safe…
You didn’t purchase a single game ever on Ubisoft really?
thats not what i said, i said that if eg epic did this i be made i spent time getting games there.
Just because my turd sat in my toilet overnight doesn’t mean I don’t plan on flushing it.
I hate UBI
zero effort in actual research..
no. if you BOUGHT games, you can keep them and your account.
if you made an inactive ubi account to quickly try out a free game, itll get deleted after some time.
ubi is still trash but i wouldnt rank this article and by association this website above it. goes to show how “journalists” that get their info from twitter shouldnt be taken seriously.
I mean this exact scenario already happend to me 3 years back. Altho i only lost free games from giveaways, it still sucked
I’m no fan of Ubisoft or the reliance on launchers etc, but this article is alarmist and wrong: Ubisoft clarified to say that the only accounts that get shut down are ones with no games on them. It’s actually a legal requirement for them related to data retention laws.
If you’ve got any purchased games on it, your Ubisoft account is exempt from these regular deletions.
Check your sources people.
Screenshotted and submitted this to the proper athorities. Promoting piracy, goodbye web!
The update should be in the head of the article as otherwise the article promotes a false nerative
UPDATE:
Ubisoft has stated that accounts that include purchased PC games are not eligible for deletion. As the company told WCCFTech.