Why does the sign flip?
this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2023
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If your account is older than 6 months it's dead, along with its games.
Sure, but he shoots it when it's less than 6 months?
Yeah you're right, that's what the image shows. But I think they were going for aiming at less than 6, shot dead at more than 6.
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Wait what!? That can't be legal
It isn’t, but don’t fret… there will be a huge lawsuit, they’ll settle for a few hundred million, which will roughly be less than 2% of what the company made. The lawyers suing will get their >75% cut and we all will get our .67¢ checks. /sarcasm
Capitalism sucks a huge bag of dicks.
I know this is generally the case, but I think due to people not signing up I actually recently got a $200 cheque from the Yahoo data breach settlement in the mail lol
Legal =/= lawful. It's possible to get away with things that are unlwaful, because they require civil lawsuits to prove and resolve, while things that are illegal are criminally charged automatically (at least in theory).
I wasn't the one who made this meme so idk. It was probably just a small mistake by the original creator.
the original creator
Your mean like..... God?
He shoots it at the transition from <6 to >6
Piracy? No it's Surprise Ownership!
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and it's quite ethical
Companies don't care about me and I do not care about them. Feels like a mutual agreement to me. That being said, no need to pirate right now, I just bought all the myst games. Awww yeee
That’s the problem with digital games.
If you buy it legally the publisher might decide one day to take it away from you and you have absolutely no rights to stop them because you don’t own shit.
If you pirate the game then it’s yours to keep for as long as you want. Plus you get the added benefit of none of the draconian DRM that serves no purpose other than to punish people that buy the games legitimately.
Just to clarify that I only support pirating games when they have been removed from store fronts and there is no possible way to support the developer even if you wanted to.
If you bought it once you should be legally allowed to pirate it. That is just common sense.
You also have to somehow safely backup your pirates games. Otherwise they are gone as well some day.
I don't even like a majority of their games enough to want to pirate them. 🤷🏻♂️
What is the upside to alienating your customers?
White wales will always pay and in high amounts. They’re more profitable than recurring customers.
I am almost certain they are not actually doing this and it's just some ploy to get people to login to their long dormant accounts. I haven't logged into my account in around a decade, but I just did today and all the games I bought are still there (a whopping 2).
I logged in for two reasons:
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I didn't even know if I had an account
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If I have one do I have games on there
Turns out I have an account and one game on there
Baiting for Nostalgia from the looks of it as a precursor.
Aren't they lying? Or maybe they stepped it back from the horrible reception they got lol. Or maybe it was all just a big calculated move to get people to log into Ubisoft again and possibly buy more games.
Mine are still there after over a year of not touching my account.
I feel like I missed something and need to try logging into the ubi account for the first time in a while. I don’t really wanna buy anything but if they delete the shit I own Im gonna be super pissed
It's apparently only for accounts that haven't bought/received anything. So empty libraries.
People going mad about this and it's complete non-issue.
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But they delete accounts after 4 years of inactivity, not 6 months.
I haven't touched my Ubisoft account since 2013 before today. It's still there with all my purchases intact.
Why are people getting outraged for empty accounts (with no games ever) getting deleted
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I’m something of a patient gamer, and my wife has all the Assassin’s Creed games. A couple of months ago I decided to play Black Flag, as I remember her enjoying it back when it came out.
Got 46% of the way through the story, then a few weeks ago, completely out of the blue, Ubicunts pushed out a 2gb “update” for it, the sole purpose of which appears to have been to break it. So now I can’t finish it.
I hate Ubisoft.
You would think that Ubisoft would try to keep their remaining customers. I can’t remember the last time I’ve pirated a titel of Ubisoft
I'll never buy an Ubisoft game, I remember when years ago their games installed spyware on the browser (found it on my Firefox) . Pox on whoever thought that was a good idea
well i guess no reason to come back for my ubisoft account after 5 years then.. worst are the steam games that then spawn ubisoft launchers.
But seriously, just make gaming a subscription service at this point..
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