Looks like I hit a nerve 
So boycott Ubisoft because of this one guys' story? No. That's not how people should react. It's immature at best.There is nothing in nothing in the GDPR that forces a company to delete a user account, after a year, along with it's games and services.
Art. 17 GDPR – Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’) - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies: the personal data are no...gdpr-info.eu
Quite the contrary, the GDPR states that data must be preserved to guarantee rights established by other legislation.
Ubisoft chose to delete that user account and made the excuse that it was the GDPR.
We've known we don't own digital games years ago. You can't act surprised now....I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything, and GOG was just an example, however I'm not sure of other stores. There are DRM free games on Steam and Epic that you can archive in a working state by just backing up the game's folder, however there's no way to know until after you install them...
Thick skin needs to make a comeback.
All games and software are rentals ..... You own NOTHING, you only get a license to use their IP based on their rules
Yeah and since you get a license to drive and choose not to for a few months. They then find a need in clearing your user data. Next thing you know you don't have a license. What kind of sense does that make?
This has noting to do with following EU law, this is just Ubisoft being greedy Ubisoft, and hoping that this very narrowed interpretation of GDPR will force gamers to buy the games again.
No, they misintrpreted the law and then broke a few more deleting the account and denying that user access to their purchased software.
This! 1000times this! Yes!
Charge backs come with caveats. If you do a charge back the service has the right to suspend the account or delete/remove account. Steam has that.
For real, no joke!
I believe there's a list somewhere of all the DRM-free games available on Steam. Maintained by the community of course, god forbid publishers disclose that information on the store page.I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything, and GOG was just an example, however I'm not sure of other stores. There are DRM free games on Steam and Epic that you can archive in a working state by just backing up the game's folder, however there's no way to know until after you install them...
I wasnt talking about the article. I was only referring to your comment about charge backs. Most people say these things but may not realize its a bad idea in most cases. Especially since most dont know that you are breaking the terms of service agreement.
The problem is, these emulators only work if you have a new digital copy. They won't help reading my old diskettes at all. That was the point. If Steam or Ubisoft delete a game from my library, I can either buy it again or pirate it and continue to play it. These are also the options I have with the old physical games I own. In fact, I've done so several times, buying digital copies of old PC games again, and sometimes again and again, such as in the case on Neverwinter Nights, where I have physical copies of the original and its expansions, a digital copy and a digital copy of the Enhanced Edition, plus the Android version. (And I don't really play them.)
They actually did not. Its one thing to delete user personal data, its another thing to delete purchased copies of the software, its called theft.
I doubt we'll see any charges...
The laws in the European Union are NOT like that. The laws of UBISOFT are like that! : "in accordance with our terms of use" (right picture at the beginning of the article.) OUR terms of use. "A Ubisoft representative said it deletes inactive accounts according to its interpretation of article 5.1e of the European Union’s GDPR law". ITS INTERPRETATION of said article.
Wow, that's pretty messed up. Ubisoft is a European company too so they should know better. I just assumed that they're not because this article says that they're not. I'm an EU citizen but I've never actually lived there.
Agreed, it should be illegal. This what one gets when you buy into a DRM based system. Don't buy DRM games! Use GOG or expect to have to deal with nonsense like this in future. It's as simple as that.
