30 days of Ubisoft+ free (until 10.10)

one my friend who was under science contract 2 years in antarctica never told me they've played assassins creed or such ... but anyway it makes sense. its always better and more profitable to provide a service for a few of 1000 boring young scientists than for big country with thousands and thousands of ubi fans, customers and potential buyers.

That is probably what they'll do on credit cards. On Paypal it doesn't even show in the transaction log.

like I said it's not about the trial service being free or not, this is to verify the payment method is valid, the temporary fee usually shows up as "pending" and is never actually charged, obviously this is to prevent abuse from using fake or stolen credit cards

I remember Paypal does something similar when you link a bank account where they issue a small fee to verify the info is valid.

Except that they ARE completely free.

It's like how it's free to enter a store so long as you're meeting their expectations of you wearing a minimal amount of clothes. They do require you to have the clothes, but they're not going to take them from you and keep them. Same principle applies to the validity check for credit cards.

Just because you're having trouble finding "clothes to wear" doesn't mean that the store is charging you anything. Just that you're going to have to decide between going home and sorting that whole "no clothes" thing out, or missing out on entering the store during its promotion.

In summary, it's free by both definitional standards and by any kind of applied consideration.

Extended reading, TL;DR readers can cut out here:

That is to say, ir's quite unlike those "free with purchase" frauds, where they basically do try to take the shirt off your back before they give you that "free" key to their restroom that they promised. In this case, they're not taking anything from you, nor are they even asking anything from you that isn't a non-biased minimum societal standard, intended only to make the interaction process as smooth and trouble-free as possible (as is the case in requiring a bare minimum of clothes, for the sake of respecting those other customers that'd appreciate your doing so).

As with wearing clothes, you could argue that the standard itself is wrong, but there's still a very clear and constructive reason for it and no negative mentality behind it, and there's just no reason to criticize the merchant for utilizing it. In fact, unlike* our negative sentiments towards nudity- which is mostly based on puritanical values, the constraint of women's rights, and the expectation of men having a complete lack of self-restraint, dignity, and respect for others- you could argue that the standard for credit card verification is less irrational as a standard, as it's intended to protect the merchant and, thereby to a degree, consumers, as they aren't then at as much risk of things like site crashes and key revocations.

* (There is a hygeine consideration for costumer nudity in stores, or for employee nudity in any food-handling workplace, however, so this topic's particular application of counter-nudity would still have comparable valuation to credit card verification.)

Yeah, cancelling wherever you paid should be enough.

100%ing AC: V including all DLC took me a free month of Ubisoft+ last year in September, a free weekend of AC: V this February and a free week of Ubisoft+ (from a free month of Amazon Prime) this August. 267h according to Ubisoft statistics. And another DLC has been announced.

This month I'll probably play Far Cry 6.

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Ofc you should feel free to try it but I would prioritize the other two.
Lake seemed to be the kind of game that is super relaxing but I found it rather empty of content and meaning.
It's obviously just a personal opinion since the game has a great Steam score.

I had a free week last month and a free month last year. And I think it would just outright say so if you didn't qualify for some reason. I'd hit up their support if CC doesn't work either.

Good luck!