Comment on Ubisoft reportedly deleting customer accounts with purchased games if they have been inactive for too long

suckaduck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Killer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not defending it but it has to be a pretty long period, i have played their game or used their launcher in a few years and have not gotten any email about my account getting deleted.

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  • InternetTubes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wonder if you contain any games validated through Steam that are Ubisoft, whether they are forced to keep the ones associated to that account active because Steam obviously isn’t going to break their own store because Ubisoft is screwing with their own.

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    • Boinketh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I fucking love that Valve is privately owned and hope it stays that way forever. It seems like they’re the only game store not subject to enshittification and I’m sure that not being a public company is a huge part of why. They’ve kept their amazing search feature all this time, just put out a significant UI update that helps UX a lot on high res monitors, and still let you play without updating if you go into offline mode (though it is a bit of a hassle).

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  • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not defending it but it has to be a pretty long period

    Fair enough, but why have any length of time at all? What purpose does it serve the prune old accounts?

    Account information can’t be taking up that much space on a hard disk.

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