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Re:Ubisoft account -including games- can be permanently dele... by bombcar on Monday July 24, 2023 @09:23AM (#36847601)
The cost to maintain the database is actually a small part of it; a large question is reducing the "surface area" against attacks as best you can. Perhaps for steam this doesn't matter, but forums, etc have issues with old unused accounts being hacked and used for spam, etc.
Re:Ubisoft account -including games- can be permanently dele... by lamontcg on Monday July 24, 2023 @10:41AM (#36848823)
You could lock the account and require a higher standard of proof of identity to recover it (e.g. you prove who you are and steam runs a credit report on you and validates your prior phone numbers and addresses against authorization and billing information that they have for the account--that would increase the barrier to require identity theft which is unlikely to be used just to take over steam accounts and spam).