Ubisoft Terminating ‘Inactive’ Accounts

[J4MESOX4D]

https://www.pcgamer.com/your-ubisoft-account-can-be-suspended-and-subsequently-permanently-deleted-for-inactivity-taking-your-games-library-with-it/

Maybe if they made a good game once in a while, users would actually have an incentive to use their diabolical services. This is a stark, dark reminder of the perils of digital ownership where your entire purchase history can be nuked because you haven’t logged in for X period or for other reasons without any notice whatsoever and this goes for other services too.

Valve surely cannot tolerate these absurd terms forced upon their users especially when it can impact titles bought through the Steam Store. Users may be left with dead licences and due to the archaic account linkage, it will give users an extended headache trying to untie a dead account linked to Steam if they wish for some reason to rebuy or purchase new Ubisoft titles on a new account going forward.

I’m grateful that Valve let’s sleeping accounts lie but things could change in time and terms could tighten. A good starting point would be to not let companies set dangerous precedents like Ubisoft are doing and Valve should step up and side with their community on this one especially against a company that came crawling back so shamefully because they need the business that Steam has.

[Lithurge]

Автор сообщения: BloodShed

• The ownership of PC games since the creation of the account: accounts tied to purchased games are not eligible for deletion

That really does make it a non issue and answers the question in my last post about owning a game, so long as it's a purchased game.

[DeadPhoenix]

Автор сообщения: BloodShed

Автор сообщения: DeadPhoenix

I haven't touched my Ubisoft account for over 3 years. And if they happen to delete it. I'm okay with it.

If you have any purchased games (From Ubisoft or via Steam (and played once)) your account is safe.
If not, you would have received warning E-mails.

1 game on Steam. The rest is free. I logged in to change my password because someone accesed my account. Last purchase was back in 2015. Have not played any of their games since then.

[kitt]

Автор сообщения: Lithurge

Автор сообщения: BloodShed

• The ownership of PC games since the creation of the account: accounts tied to purchased games are not eligible for deletion

That really does make it a non issue and answers the question in my last post about owning a game, so long as it's a purchased game.

I wonder if the purchase of their subscription (Ubisoft+) also counts. I couldn't find an answer but I also just glanced over the ToS.

[BloodShed]

Автор сообщения: DeadPhoenix

Автор сообщения: BloodShed

If you have any purchased games (From Ubisoft or via Steam (and played once)) your account is safe.
If not, you would have received warning E-mails.

1 game on Steam. The rest is free. I logged in to change my password because someone accesed my account. Last purchase was back in 2015. Have not played any of their games since then.

Then you should still be able to login to it now.

[DeadPhoenix]

Автор сообщения: BloodShed

Автор сообщения: DeadPhoenix

1 game on Steam. The rest is free. I logged in to change my password because someone accesed my account. Last purchase was back in 2015. Have not played any of their games since then.

Then you should still be able to login to it now.

But i don't care about Ubisoft games. So i'll just let it die.

[Hannibal]

Cant wait to see all the email phising scammers run with this one with fake ubisoft emails. This is just plain stupid. They offer no onformation on how long os too long to be insctive, or no warning or communications if this period number may be edited. I see lawsuits eventually.

[JacquesPatat]

hmmmm. this is nothing new, they changed their terms a couple years back and there were people up in arms about it. nothing new

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Don't worry, Google's got you covered... https://imgur.com/a/u3kJ3HH

[BloodShed]

Автор сообщения: JacquesPatat

hmmmm. this is nothing new, they changed their terms a couple years back and there were people up in arms about it. nothing new

Yeah, that's the weird part.

The article I posted in #79 was from 2021. So why people got knickers in twist again now is odd.

[J4MESOX4D]

Автор сообщения: BloodShed

Автор сообщения: JacquesPatat

hmmmm. this is nothing new, they changed their terms a couple years back and there were people up in arms about it. nothing new

Yeah, that's the weird part.

The article I posted in #79 was from 2021. So why people got knickers in twist again now is odd.

Because they have really started to enforce it in the last week as evidenced by all the people affected. It's also perfectly relevant news still which a lot of people were unaware of originally so it rejuvenating is a good thing especially as it now raises further questions about dead licences and the de-linking process which is still unreliable.

[Brian9824]

Yeah this is really non news. Its been repeatedly confirmed that if you own a single paid game the account will not be deleted.

[Mr. Monday]

Автор сообщения: kitt

8) which military base doesn't have internet nowadays? again family/friends are free to login

When I was deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan the only reliable internet access I had was the NIPR/SIPR network. Gaming sites were blocked on them so I couldn't log into Steam or Battlenet using them. I couldn't even visit the forums of the TTRPG I played because they were a "gaming" site (even though all they did was sell books). I imagine the same would apply to Ubisoft. That would leave civilian-run networks to use, which were slow, unreliable, and likely not secure. Plus we were limited to how long we could be online. And this was at the main bases. The out-site I was at didn't have any internet other than the military's network. The one time I tried logging into Steam the program took over 30 minutes to try to log in before I ended it. Steam never logged me in, but it did get to a point where it wouldn't open in offline mode because it wanted to be updated. I'm fairly sure whatever system Ubisoft uses would have the same issues.

[.EteRnal.]

The anti-consumer company does anti-consumer things. In other news, the sun is hot.

[Crashed]

https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/help/account/article/closure-of-inactive-ubisoft-accounts/000079595?irclickid=WAZSGmQlUxyNUf5yoexIUQ2DUkFwm83tWwID380&irgwc=1&ncid=2265-1367---1-aflt-38-58-Store_Affiliation_221109_pcg-us--17-2-7-0920-4----ID_94178-----

Inactive Ubisoft accounts, with no PC purchases or active subscriptions tied to them, may be closed in order to comply with data protection laws after long periods of inactivity.

Emphasis mine.
Next paragraph, emphasis Ubisoft's:

Accounts tied to an active Ubisoft subscription, or PC games that have been purchased from the Ubisoft store, are not eligible for deletion.

[Pandaren-Y]

Do the games purchased trough Steam still remain in your "invetory"?
It's a verrry suicidal move PR wise and even in a legal way to deny access to purchases you have made just because you haven't bothered/had time to play them?