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Your Ubisoft account can be suspended and subsequently permanently deleted for 'inactivity,' taking your games library with it (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BombOmOm@lemmy.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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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.

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[–] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] cmeow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even then, deceased people's accounts can go to their next of kin. GOG does this with provided legal documentations and will.

[–] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

That is true. I will agree that the wording seems deliberately kept vague.

[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] cmeow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean do they email you with a heads up with decent lead time to log in and reset the clock?

[–] dom@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Does it matter? Storing use data is incredibly cheap in the grand scheme of things.