Sony did this to me I'd bought quite a few vita games digitally. Left it alone a few months and then saw an email where they said to keep the account log in now. Tried to log in but they'd already wiped it.
Not falling for digital again.
this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2023
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here I read they do not erase account like this. https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/help/account/article/closure-of-inactive-ubisoft-accounts/000079595 where is the truth?
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Yet another reason I won’t buy their games. Hurray.
EA's Origin closes your account after two years of inactivity since it exists, not sadly Ubisoft dose the same shit! :/
Sounds like a great way to get sued.
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, GOG, EA, Epic Games, etc.
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More garbage decisions from a garbage company
I boycott ubisoft and EA. They can both go suck a lemon.
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.
It's always ethical to pirate Ubisoft games
A part of me wants to start spreading a #PirateUbisoftGames hashtag.
...but another part of me doesn't want to bother because it's just Ubisoft games lol
Don't buy games you don't own
I think that ship has unfortunately sailed.
Even if I buy a game on Steam I don't technically own it. If the game was ever deleted from their servers and then I lost my local copy either because I uninstalled it or because I got a new computer, I would have no way to get my game back, and I doubt that Valve would refund me.
But some games literally don't have physical releases, even if I did have an optical drive. So what option do I have?
The only real solution to all of this is a changing copyright law that says that once a piece of software no longer becomes commercially available through legitimate means it becomes legal to pirate it. But that would require politicians around the world to a, understand computers and b, not being 900,000 years old.
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I smell EU fine
This is why Steam got the lion's share. Ubisoft is mad disrespectful.
Fuck Ubishit pirate their games
Most of em aren't even worth that
Thanks for the heads up, 10 year old account was almost gone, phew!
Good thing I was already boycotting Ubisoft for years.
have some dlc there. had. no big deal, came with Assassin's Creed on PS3 I think. gave it to kids years ago. $20 maybe. got too old for games. can barely type
This is just a shame