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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    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.

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

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    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.

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

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.

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    I guess this marks the start of game rental companies like Steam using capitalist tricks to make you re-buy re-rent for maximum profit.

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      That’s the scummy thing, because Ubisoft is trying to blur the lines between owning a license and renting one.

      Fucking scumbags.

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    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.

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

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        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.