Breaking... Ubisoft Erases your digital games if you don't play them!!!! :wow::wtf: :dahell:

[MeachTheMonster]

Theirs no excuse

No company is gonna maintain a dormant digital account in perpetuity. Don’t know why some of you expect that here.

 

[Phantum]

They got the right idea, should just erase the whole company next.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

I really don’t see the point in defending this lol

Like yeah, take away the games that i purchased, give me less consumer rights!

Because comments like this are misinformation.

No one is “taking away” games that have already been purchased.

 

[ORDER_66]

No company is gonna maintain a dormant digital account in perpetuity. Don’t know why some of you expect that here.

If ubisoft is doing what's stopping microsoft from erasing your gamepass account???

 

[MeachTheMonster]

If ubisoft is doing what's stopping microsoft from erasing your gamepass account???

Gamepass is a subscription service. When/if i’m not longer subscribed then i don’t have access to gamepass games.

Not sure what your confusion is here

 

[ORDER_66]

Gamepass is a subscription service. When/if i’m not longer subscribed then i don’t have access to gamepass games.

Not sure what your confusion is here

So all the digital games you brought you cant access without having gamepass active????

 

[Doctor Doom]

I've had Ubisoft games sitting in my Steam library for 5+ years and I've never played them I feel like

Valve would never

 

[MeachTheMonster]

So all the digital games you brought you cant access without having gamepass active????

Ignorance is y’all’s problem not the actual policies

The games i have purchased digitally have NOTHING to do with gamepass.

 

[ORDER_66]

Ignorance is y’all’s problem not the actual policies

The games i have purchased digitally have NOTHING to do with gamepass.

Ok so what your saying if you buy games digitally on the xbox marketplace it wont be affected if you cancel xbox gamepass yes???

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Ok so what your saying if you buy games digitally on the xbox marketplace it wont be affected if you cancel xbox gamepass yes???

Yes

 

[ORDER_66]

Yes

i still dont trust this meach... you not seeing the fine print if they ban your account.... i warned you that could happen.

 

[Software]

Games that can be played offline do not.

And this is only for games that you purchased from the ubisoft store. If you purchased on steam, xbox, playstation, your purchase record is held with those cocompanies.

That's what I meant.

But it’s not. You guys have this weird disconnect on what digital content actually is.

When you buy a digital game and download on to a hardrive, they game is now under your own control and responsibility. Ubisoft can never tap into your hardrive and delete the game, just like they can’t walk into your home a destroy a disc. You are responsible for maintaining your disc, and you can NEVER get another one without paying for another copy.

In that sense you get “more” with a digital purchase because they WILL allow you to come back to their store and download the game as many times as you want.

If you are no longer their customer and won’t even answer emails and notifications from them, then why should they continue to perpetually spend money to offer this perk for you?

What other company or product works that way??

Well when we get down to it when you buy physical you're just paying for a license to the software of the game. The license is on the disc itself. It's the same reason you can't just burn a Spider-man iso onto a blu ray disc and play it on a ps5. As long as you have that license in this case the disc you could play it whenever you want.

With digital it's the same, you pay for a license and the game assets are digitally downloaded to your hard drive. The reason the shift to digital is suppose to be good is that digital assets are easily deleted and downloaded. When you lose or break a disc you lose both the license and the assets to play the game. You'll need to purchase another.

Digitally when you corrupt game data (break it in the digital sense) or delete it (lose it in the digital sense) you should not ever lose the license. That was what made digital games so good because even though you cannot exchange games with people like with disc's you never had to worry about losing access to the game due to complications with a physical asset.

Without this benefit digital games are an inferior medium to physical in all ways except the convenience factor of changing games without getting up and putting in a disc.

There would be a bigger uproar about this digital vs physical thing if stores started putting expiration on game licenses and accounts at the forefront when purchasing a game. Because truly then it is not ownership but a rental. Yet the consumer is being charged the same a physical ownership. It's up to the store fronts to make sure our data stays available to us at least through our lifetime if the licenses to the software a guaranteed to us as an account holder.

 

[ORDER_66]

There would be a bigger uproar about this digital vs physical thing if stores started putting expiration on game licenses and accounts at the forefront when purchasing a game. Because truly then it is not ownership but a rental. Yet the consumer is being charged the same a physical ownership. It's up to the store fronts to make sure our data stays available to us at least through our lifetime if the licenses to the software a guaranteed to us as an account holder.

THIS should be the ideal but I keep telling meach you can't trust these companies to uphold their side of the deal...

 

[The Mad Titan]

But we need as many major 3rd party publishers as possible for a healthy gaming industry!

 

[Animal House]

Cry me a river they been a trash ass company but gamers will still do business with them

When AC drops y’all will be there playing day one