Oh No! It's UBISOFT!

[👁]

The game looks really good but I don't like having to keep up with email and passwords or sitting through log ins and dealing with bloatware for Ubisoft Connect

[Quineloe]

Good call tbh.

[Hundinger]

Okay.

[Aku]

Yeah waiting for the game to be playable without Ubisoft before buying this.

[Tiearian]

The game will always require Ubisoft Connect. If you guys think ubisoft is gonna drop DRM, your out to lunch.

Ubisoft has litterally faced one of their games being pirated, cracked, and released before it's official release date, and still put DRM on the game. It ain't gonna change a thing. Ubisoft is a ignorant developer, and don't listen to their audience at all. They only listen to the number of Sales.

Unfortunately for us, the Anno series is amazing. So we are forced to support Ubisoft. Luckily due to the amount of people that do like the game, it means more content will be released, and a new game will come out every 5ish years. Bad part, is Ubisoft asks for a premium price for lower then average amounts of content.

[Tech-52]

Originally posted by 👁:

The game looks really good but I don't like having to keep up with email and passwords or sitting through log ins and dealing with bloatware for Ubisoft Connect

they aint gonna remove it anytime soon since all of their games are being cracked anno 1800 included. The best way to deal with this is to put ubisoft connect offline and disable cloud save. it never bothered me that way, its like it's not on my pc. Don't but the game at full price it's not worth it wait for a good sale

[Quineloe]

If Ubisoft decides to delete your account because you're inactive for a bit, can you buy it again on steam or will steam still think you own the game, but ubisoft will deny you do?

[Hundinger]

Originally posted by Quineloe:

If Ubisoft decides to delete your account because you're inactive for a bit, can you buy it again on steam or will steam still think you own the game, but ubisoft will deny you do?

They don't delete your account for being inactive.

[Quineloe]

Originally posted by Hundinger:

Originally posted by Quineloe:

If Ubisoft decides to delete your account because you're inactive for a bit, can you buy it again on steam or will steam still think you own the game, but ubisoft will deny you do?

They don't delete your account for being inactive.

They literally said they do.

[Hundinger]

Originally posted by Quineloe:

Originally posted by Hundinger:

They don't delete your account for being inactive.

They literally said they do.

Okay, I did a little research. After six months they will send you a mail to inform you that your account is flagged for deletion. You then can respond inside a month to tell them not to. If you don't do that they will delete it. I'm not sure about the legality of that, they argue it's to comply with local data protection legislation.

So yes, it's pretty bad that they can do that, but it's also unlikely it will happen to you since they give you a warning. The worst case scenarion would be that you have your account on an email account you never check.

[Quineloe]

You've missed the part where they're asking you to check spam filters, because automated mails like that often get caught in those.
Also their lie about why they're doing it is also why they're a horrible corporation. If they had to do that, why is no one else doing it?

[Hundinger]

Originally posted by Quineloe:

You've missed the part where they're asking you to check spam filters, because automated mails like that often get caught in those.
Also their lie about why they're doing it is also why they're a horrible corporation. If they had to do that, why is no one else doing it?

I don't know. It's not good, I'm not defending it.

[Hundinger]

The german outlet Gamestar published an article about the deletions today. Long story short, when you have purchased games on your account, it cannot be deleted. Only empty accounts or those with only free to play titles can be deleted. No reason to panic.

[John Hayabusa]

Originally posted by Quineloe:

You've missed the part where they're asking you to check spam filters, because automated mails like that often get caught in those.
Also their lie about why they're doing it is also why they're a horrible corporation. If they had to do that, why is no one else doing it?

They cant delete your account if you bought something. its literally illegal. They also clarified that on their website. All this recent drama is just some content creator milking old news.

[Quineloe]

Originally posted by Parry Jackson:

Originally posted by Quineloe:

You've missed the part where they're asking you to check spam filters, because automated mails like that often get caught in those.
Also their lie about why they're doing it is also why they're a horrible corporation. If they had to do that, why is no one else doing it?

They cant delete your account if you bought something. its literally illegal. They also clarified that on their website. All this recent drama is just some content creator milking old news.

They clarified this *yesterday*, please don't be a corporate shill and claim falsehoods to make valid points seem invalid.
This is a long standing policy that was already debated heatedly when it was first announced, and Ubisoft did not seem fit to clarify back then. Just because an issue isn't brand new doesn't make it wrong to bring it up again if it is still unresolved.