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      If your account is older than 6 months it’s dead, along with its games.

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          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.

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            I know this is generally the case with lawyers getting all the settlement money, 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

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          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).

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      I wasn’t the one who made this meme so idk. It was probably just a small mistake by the original creator.

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    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.

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      If you bought it once you should be legally allowed to pirate it. That is just common sense.

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      You also have to somehow safely backup your pirates games. Otherwise they are gone as well some day.

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      White wales will always pay and in high amounts. They’re more profitable than recurring customers.

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    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).

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      I logged in for two reasons:

      1. I didn’t even know if I had an account

      2. If I have one do I have games on there

      Turns out I have an account and one game on there

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    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

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      If I buy a car and then go to out of state college and end up not driving it for 4 years, the dealership can take the car back? I think not.

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      I haven’t touched my Ubisoft account since 2013 before today. It’s still there with all my purchases intact.

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      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.

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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.

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    Why are people getting outraged for empty accounts (with no games ever) getting deleted

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    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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      Ubisoft is allegedly closing accounts that are inactive for a period of time, regardless if they have purchases on them or not.

      I’m not sure if this is a recent change or if Ubi has come out with an official statement. This is just what I’ve seen going around today

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        It’s been like this for years. I’m pretty sure I’ve gotten the inactive email back around 2014 and I just log back in.

        It’s a dumb policy from them and Origin, but it’s nothing new. Far from it.

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        Honestly, I have hope that this is how the world gets better. All these companies who’ve been making a mess of everything on reputations they’ve long outlived have gotten too comfortable and too bold. A few Ubisofts and Twitters will be good practice for the bigger ones.

        Maybe we’ll even figure out that money only tells us where we go if we let it.