If only we could know!

Why does the sign flip?

...because the account isn't yet 6 months old in the first panel?
- Then why is he shooting it
If your account is older than 6 months it's dead, along with its games.
- Sure, but he shoots it when it's less than 6 months?
- Wait what!? That can't be legal
I wasn't the one who made this meme so idk. It was probably just a small mistake by the original creator.
- the original creator
  Your mean like..... God?
He shoots it at the transition from <6 to >6

Piracy? No it's Surprise Ownership!

😎

and it's quite ethical
- Companies don't care about me and I do not care about them. Feels like a mutual agreement to me. That being said, no need to pirate right now, I just bought all the myst games. Awww yeee

If you bought it once you should be legally allowed to pirate it. That is just common sense.
You also have to somehow safely backup your pirates games. Otherwise they are gone as well some day.

I don't even like a majority of their games enough to want to pirate them. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I agree. :) Haven't played a ubisoft game for ages....
- They used to have all the great games!

What is the upside to alienating your customers?

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

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).

I logged in for two reasons:
I didn't even know if I had an account
If I have one do I have games on there
Turns out I have an account and one game on there
Baiting for Nostalgia from the looks of it as a precursor.

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

It's apparently only for accounts that haven't bought/received anything. So empty libraries.
- People going mad about this and it's complete non-issue.
- No they've been deleting accounts with games, that's why this is so controversial.

Mine are still there after over a year of not touching my account.

But they delete accounts after 4 years of inactivity, not 6 months.

- Sorry that was me actually
  Vroom vroom
I haven't touched my Ubisoft account since 2013 before today. It's still there with all my purchases intact.

Update article from the verge if anyone is interested

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.

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.

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

Because sensational news headlines/articles
- Which is still less worse than people getting outraged over headlines instead of reading the articles
It's not just empty accounts, according to one user
- according to one user
  Which does not make a static nor proof, more so since Ubisoft said they will delete just empty accounts
- According to one person, that likely made it up for fake internet points.
- Most likely just pick up by a bot in error, sometimes that happens.. sounds more like the exception rather than the rule
  Alternatively would people do that? Just go onto the internet and lie.

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..

My favorite example of this is this nintendo skit

What's the context of this?

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
- 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.
https://kbin.social/m/gaming/t/239081
- 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.
Misinformation that has since been debunked.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23805783/ubisoft-delete-game-accounts
I don't really care about a corporation that makes the epitome of mediocre games, but let's criticize them for real things rather than fake things.

You would think that Ubisoft would try to keep their remaining customers. I can’t remember the last time I’ve pirated a titel of Ubisoft

I bought the whole AC collection for less than $60, I was excited because I liked Assassin's Creed... I still do, at least the first ones.

But soon after I bought it they came up with the bright idea of removing DLC content from games, this was about 2 years ago.

I pirated my entire library, I still regret giving them money.

I'll never buy an Ubisoft game, I remember when years ago their games installed spyware on the browser (found it on my Firefox) . Pox on whoever thought that was a good idea