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Ubisoft has updated its End User License Agreement, and it’s instructing its users to remove and destroy their games completely should the title be taken offline.
Essentially, the EULA has given Ubisoft free rein on its ability to stop supporting a game, writing: “You and Ubisoft may terminate this EULA at any time, for any reason. Termination by Ubisoft will be effective upon notice to you or termination of your Ubisoft account, or at the time of Ubisoft’s decision to discontinue offering and/or supporting the Product.”
Interestingly, this isn’t the only company that has the same terms in its EULA. The likes of Capcom, Sega, and even the Oblivion Remaster have the same clause in their terms and conditions, meaning the stipulation isn’t unique to Ubisoft.
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And that’s why Stop Killing Games is getting big, and it’s also why every gaming company lobbied against it, making it even more important to sign.
If we’re gonna pay 80 dollars for a product, we better be fucking able to keep it. It literally makes no sense to allow this kind of shit for videogames but not for anything else. If a car company said “If we stop supplying parts to this old car, you must crush it” they’d be laughed out of the room.
GM did exactly that with the EV1
You will own nothing and you will like it mentality.
TIL, capitalism can lead to serfdom.
Customers: We want an end of life plan.
Ubisoft’s end of life plan:
friendly reminder that EU law always trumps a EULA ond you can not sign away rights as a citizen of the EU.
I’m one step ahead of them. I’m not installing them in the first place. The utter gall of them removing The Crew permanently, and then saying ‘But hey, it’s ok, you can buy The Crew 2 instead’. Fuck off .
The best way to solve all this is simple. Let them delist games without providing the resources to users, just as Ubisoft wants.
And everytime they do, make them give a full refund of the game. Hell even a partial refund would probably work. Those greedy fucks.
They’ll figure out a solution for local gameplay and self hosting servers pretty damn fast.
make them
You’re gonna have trouble with this step.
No.
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So nothing about you not getting a refund then.
Oh no, you can keep your T&Cs. Just don’t play the game.
I say we compromise, I’ll come to your office and insert them sideways up your ass.
So they have chosen the dark side…
It’s Ubisoft. They’ve been on the dark side for like the last 10 years.
If you search “EULA deleting all copies of any materials or software in your possession” you’ll see this shows up in pretty much every EULA for every piece of software, including most games. Phasmophobia, Baldur’s Gate 3, Risk of Rain 2, and Steam itself show up on that list.
