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Chazore said:

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It looks like it will actually end well:

Ubisoft Accounts That Include Purchased PC Games Are Not Eligible for Deletion, Company Clarifies
https://wccftech.com/ubisoft-accounts-pc-games-not-eligible-deletion/
After a few days of confusion, Ubisoft finally clarified the inactive account deletion situation, confirming the criteria the company takes into consideration before an account is deleted.

In a new statement provided to Wccftech today, it was confirmed that Ubisoft takes 4 criteria into consideration before an account is deleted. These are the gaming activity of the account since its creation, the account's libraries, the duration of inactivity of the account, and the existence of an active subscription tied to the account. Regarding the account's libraries, Ubisoft confirmed that any account that includes purchased PC games is not eligible for deletion. Before the deletion is permanent, three emails are sent to the player, allowing them to restore their account within 30 days.

I'm looking at that criteria and I still think it's a load of utter horseshit.

This is Ubisoft after all. While Blzizard has done shit by PC gaming and console gaming with Overwatch and other games of theirs, Ubisoft has had this petty childish invisible war on PC gaming for years now, and this still comes off as a petty attempt to force customers back onto their client.

I haven't touched that crappy client since the whole EGS crap went down nearly 4 years ago, so I guess I already fit 2 checkmarks already. Ubisoft are doing a damn fine job of not releasing good games, doing exclusivity bullshit, more DRM, and this shit. Why anyone on PC would wanna play their stuff let alone support them is beyond me, since they seemingly hate PC and won't let it go and just adhere to the customer will and bow to be humbled. 

Well, you may still not trust them, but there's something to consider: law.

One thing is to delete an account that has nothing but free games, sorry, licenses that meant no money exchange between Ubi and the user, but another thing is to do the same when money is involved. Things get a lot more complicated.

Remember how Ubisoft decided to shot down some servers and decided to not only remove some games from sale, but also make them unplayable? Wjem was it, earlier this year or last year? I remember because Anno 2070 was involved and I have that game. Well, it turn out that Ubisoft killed those servers and removed the games from sale, but they found out a way to make them still playable for its owners. Why? Because they realized that, if they didn't find that fix, they could get into serious legal trouble.