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It's Ubisoft abusing their rights. They don't have to do this.

Don't they delete only accounts that have 0 games linked to them? Could you maybe provide a source other than "I'm reading german newspaper" ? :|

you are a little late - this news was discussed several years ago. I even wrote to Ubisoft support for clarification. with a list of possible reasons why I won't be able to log in to my account within six months: I'll go to the hospital and so on, ubisoft sincerely worried about my condition and hoped that no matter what, I would be able to visit my account. but also reassure me that the deletion should not happen automatically and someone at ubisoft will still monitor it.

is deleting inactive accounts after 6 months now.

I call BS, a Belgian friend just checked his account today after his last login was on 16-05-2019. It's still there without anything missing. Same with a Dutch friend who logged in slightly over 2 years ago (she couldn't give me an exact date).

So they're deleting in active accounts but not at only 6 months of inactivity.

Reminds me this:

Why is EA worst company in America?
Because Ubisoft is in France.

2-3 year, that OK
but 6 month?? ok that's it, no more buying from them. let's sail the sea

thx for the warning, will never buy games there again, period!

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Well their BS motivated me to install their client just to make sure my games are still there, and they are luckily, because I hadn't bothered to log into my account in about a year. This policy is awful, there's many reasons why someone could stop using an account for a while, 6 months isn't even that long, I guess from now on the only safe place to get Ubisoft games is gonna be GOG since most of the ones on Steam still require Uplay/whatever the hell is called now.

The TOS says

upon notification, where your Account has been inactive for more than six months.

So, just deny the deletion?
This post seems FUD.

I am not a lawyer but I find it hard to believe these ToS are legally binding especially in Europe. You buy a game, you don't rent it.
Also if you buy a key from a reseller like humble. Do their ToS also say the license is temporary? Or will they refund every game if an account gets deleted? What if you bought the game on steam which runs the ubisoft launcher?

No, I really don't think this can possibly be legally binding. But to avoid trouble I will never buy there again.

Edit:// I googled Dutch law. And indeed. It says: The legal guarantee means that you are always entitled to a good product. If a product is defective, you are entitled to a free repair, a new product or a refund of your money. There is no legal warranty period in the Netherlands. This is because one product lasts longer than the other.

A license lasts forever as it doesn't go bad or defective because of usage. Therefor you are always entitled of a new product or a refund. So this ToS is not legally binding in The Netherlands and most likely in a lot of different countries either.

Rage/clickbait... There were "news" about this years ago about this very same ToS... click

"Ubisoft said it does take account deletion seriously, that it’s not done willy-nilly, and four criteria are considered before it happens:

-The gaming activity of the account since its creation.
-The ownership of PC games since the creation of the account: accounts tied to purchased games are not eligible for deletion
-The duration of inactivity of the account, meaning the last login to our ecosystem (including from Ubisoft games on Steam and other platforms). While our Terms of Use are meant to reflect every possibilities, in practice, we have never deleted accounts that have been inactive for less than 4 years.
-The existence of an active subscription to Ubisoft + related to the account."

This is bullsh*t.
I also didn't launch Uplay for several years, because I didn't have any reason to do so (new game, for example).
But I have almost all Assassins in there...

wakfu was one of my favorite games for years and had like 300+ hours in it.
still playing it when it moved to steam
didnt play for a year and they deleted my entire account
never going back

Some say this is just a new version of the previously ongoing issue, while others say Ubisoft has gone further to delete inactive accounts. I personally think Ubi did start to wipe out inactive accounts, because news magazines state "Ubisoft accounts can be suspended and can be permanently deleted". As long as that's not a fake news, they wouldn't withdraw the publicized materials. Besides, the captured image of the warning for the suspension and the subsequent deletion of the account was shown on the Internet. If it's not a fake one, this should be another evidence.
I haven't spend any money since they announced they would withdraw the paid DLCs, if Ubisoft sticks to this kind of decision, there's no reason I should give them any money.

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Entirely reasonable for a multi billion dollar corporation to need to delete a few 0s and 1s from their servers to make up space for other things. Don't you guys ever delete stuff from your drives? You're just haters attacking poor Ubi-chan.

Well, that's one way to boost your annual login metrics 😒 (and annoying the heck out of your customers)

Don't quote me on this, but pretty sure they're only doing this with accounts with no games/only free-to-play games on them, and did this for many years now, not sure why this blew up. I've never heard about anyone actually losing their games.

Here are some cool links.
A tweet that says Ubisoft is complying with the EU GDPR legal requirements (General Data Protection Regulation) about this whole closing inactive accounts thing.
https://twitter.com/shinobi602/status/1683562858624188417

And also, accounts tied to an active Ubisoft subscription, or PC games that have been purchased from the Ubisoft store, are not eligible for deletion. Ubisoft may close long-term inactive accounts to maintain their database, in which case you will be notified by email if they begin the process of closing your inactive account.
https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/help/account/article/closure-of-inactive-ubisoft-accounts/000079595

And also a cool IGN article about this with Ubisoft's response
https://www.ign.com/articles/ubisoft-clarifies-that-it-wont-delete-game-libraries-due-to-game-inactivity-after-fan-panic

But you know, Ubisoft bad, pitchforks out, they taking our accounts and geyms, and all that jazz.
So, all of this probs not relevant information.

https://www.pcgamer.com/ubisoft-clarifies-it-does-not-delete-inactive-accounts-that-have-purchased-games-after-its-policy-came-under-question/

We can lock this nonsensical thread now.