Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth of games for inactivity

Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by emodendroket on Monday December 27, 2021 @01:20AM (#29699971)

> If they ban me, do I lose my thousands of dollars of games?

You absolutely do.

Anyway, I agree with you. Digital marketplaces are becoming more and more important and certainly I'm sure I have a lot of money in Steam, Kindle, and various other services. It'd be nice to move away from the Wild West phase given how much money's sloshing around at this point.

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Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by raz32dust on Monday December 27, 2021 @01:22AM (#29699983)

You can still play the games without steam (I often play without internet connection). But of course you'll miss out on a lot of things (multiplayer, achievements etc.) which might be important to you.

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Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by VRay on Monday December 27, 2021 @01:36AM (#29700055)

a lot of games have actual Steam DRM

You can definitely remove it, but it's not like GOG where the launcher really is 100% optional and you can install and play the games without an internet connection or an account of any sort

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Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by whoknew1122 on Monday December 27, 2021 @01:43PM (#29705372)

For some games this is true. But there's plenty of games which have an 'offline mode' that require you to connect to an auth server before the game will launch.

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