Direct from the horse’s mouth: https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/help/account/article/closure-of-inactive-ubisoft-accounts/000079595
Edit: The Ubisoft page linked here has almost completely changed in the last day.
What happened to owning something you’ve paid for forever?
These companies need to realize if they keep fucking over their paying customer, it’ll be more convenient for people to just pirate their product. At least FitGirl won’t knock on my door and demand me to delete his repack off my hard disk just because I haven’t visited his site in a while
I’m generally too lazy to even download the fitgirl repack of UbiSoft stuff. It is that convenient to not engage with UbiSoft cookie cutter crap at all.
This is illegal in France, btw. Ubisoft is a French company. :}
I thought frances main business was exporting stuff that is illegal in their country?
This post is a bunch of clickbait. The only reason this FAQ exists is because they need to comply with GDPR requests (like deleting someone’s data when they’ve died), not because they would delete inactive accounts to save space or some strange reason
Even then, deceased people’s accounts can go to their next of kin. GOG does this with provided legal documentations and will.
That is true. I will agree that the wording seems deliberately kept vague.
This is one of the reasons I stopped buying games from steam or the various DRM enabled/account locked stores.
Now I just buy from gog, at least I can have a local backup of all the installers even if they stop providing them for a reason or another. Having to wait or miss out on some games have really lost all meaning.
If they don’t want my money I’ll just use them for something more useful.
EDIT: After re reading this comment it felt like I was astroturfing for the company, but I’ve no affiliation with them, I just like the fact of owning what I buy. I know about the difference of licensing and real owning, but I feel that if I can just use an installer whenever I want it’s a lot closer to owning it.
GOG user here too, they can transfer ownership of deceased’s games over to the next of kin if they have the proper legal docs and will. It’s one of the last DRM-free bastions of PC gaming.
Unless this page was edited after it’s posted it says that they only close inactive accounts that have no games or subscriptions associated with it. If you have purchased a game or have an active subscription you are fine.
Clicking on the link again, Ubisoft has indeed almost completely rewritten the page.
I mean do they email you with a heads up with decent lead time to log in and reset the clock?
Does it matter? Storing use data is incredibly cheap in the grand scheme of things.
