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Imagine if you bought an expensive car and a few years later a guy from the car dealership knocks at your door and says: “You haven’t used your car enough in the last 30 days, so we’re taking it back…”
They won’t do it if you click the thing that tells them not to do it, it’s the equivalent of telling the the guy to stop and he just stops
There's reasons for castle doctrine. Just a joke for legal reasons though.
@@ciphergacha9100Why would you have to do that for something you paid for? That’s a fucking pathetic mentality.
Not to mention circumstances where people don’t see or don’t access their emails very often. “Oh you weren’t home so we took your car anyway.”
Or, we could try this: when you pay for something, you own it. Plain and simple.
@@bobspalding2477Fun idea, to own things you pay for. Unfortunately, western ownership and licensing laws are a hellscape invented by people who lived 200 years ago and refusing to catch up with times because they're _extremely_ pro-corporate, and corporate of all people have the power to keep them that way.
So basically ferrari
It's crazy to me that taking away a digital product without your consent, that you paid for isn't illegal. Yet, obtaining said digital product without paying for it, is.
It is in the EU/UK. US consumer protections are atrocious.
OBLIVION ISNT LIKE THAT
Land of the account free baby
@@lelyou WHAT DO UOU MEAN
@@NigerianCrusaderI think he’s talking about sailing the high seas
This is opening a door for so many phishing scams if it becomes a commonplace practice
@@BlackLivesMatter1414 work in any kind of tech support for few weeks or just ask someone who has about their experiences and you know how tech illiterate average person is and low the lower end can sink to. One of my personal favorites are the conspiracy nuts who think 5G will fry their brains and that FBI is constantly spying on them (this isn't in US) yet will give you their credit card numbers and passwords for slightest prompt. When it comes to those kind of people it's literally just dumb luck if they manage to avoid a scam and no amount of education will change that.
@Deadpoppthat’s on them 💀
@@CaptSoapy maybe so, but I just feel this day n age people just need to be way more cautious than they are. Especially in the internet and considering how many scams there are now. I guess I can’t blame people for being ignorant but it’s hard to feel bad
@@fedorahatguys7979 Some people literally don't have the mental capacity for it, people like my grandmother. Its kind of a moral quandary, do you mandate protection for people who can't protect themselves? How do you prove it? We cant get her to sign away her rights to manage her own money so it keeps going to the scams. Luckily she still keeps enough for herself to eat but its just ridiculous.
it blows my mind that Ubisoft would even think sending out notices like that is anything but dangerous. Getting an email from a company telling you your account will be suspended unless you click on a link and log in is a textbook example of a phishing attack and your instinct should be to ignore it.
Steam does a pretty good job at this. Any game that was pulled from the store - just stopped sales or was removed entirely - you can still keep and play if you purchased it.
Steam is king for good reason. They might drop games once a decade and be shit sometimes but they do care abt making their users happy and having a real community not just a game marketplace.
@@vapinggranny2474 I mean, Valve was recently sued in an anti-trust lawsuit and the judge ruled they were illegally pricing games higher by charging game devs to publish on Steam.
@@knighter1209better steam than epic lmao
@@knighter1209 This is true. Steam charges developers $100 per publish. That doesn't include DLCs and other content included after the game's release. Other platforms charge for a lot less.
@DontReadMyProfilePicture.94 OK I won't you troll
This is ridiculous. I am in the Navy. I go on half a year plus deployments with no internet at times. I can't keep hopping on to logins for everything just to keep the things I should own.
Badass
Thank you for your service brother
BUT OUR DATABASE
Well, your first mistake was joining the navy
you've got bigger things to worry about aside from logging in...
Feeling really validated as someone who prefers game discs right now.
Unfortunately all that modern game disks do is just preform as a physical key that unlocks the online version of the game for download. The game isn’t on the disk
Same
Until they put an online patch for you to download
I had to make an ubisoft account in order to replay my oldass AC: Brotherhood CD. I couldn’t even play without installing their launcher. Modern gaming is a joke, a cracked pirated copy i could burn into a CD myself would probably be more viable in the long term.
@@cephalonpobs5275 True but the collection looks real good on my shelf
Imagine owning some board games, then the board game police walks in and says "You haven't played these board games in a while" and then takes them away.
This is so dumn cos board games doesn't have access to your data. You know who else does?? Digital media companies, companies like riot games microsoft etc. They've also been doing it for a long time. So let me ask you a question say u have a steam account and u haven't logged on for years you're not even interested anymore would you want them to delete your personal information and data or say "Fuck it my data is worthless let them have it" which one would you rather have?
The Saiga-12 automatic shotgun under my bed after they take away mario monopoly:
Imagine going on a vacation for 30 days without checking your email and you see your Ubisoft account with all the games you had is gone forever. What a wonderful change.
it's if you haven't touched the account for years, then don't login for 30 days after that email
There's definitely going to be a few people out there that have been stationed abroad for their military for a couple years that get home to no games.
30 days for now. Then 20. Then 10. Then 5 minutes.
@@BinalYT Correct me if i'm wrong but typically military bases have internet access... lol
It's reasonable but I think they should change how long your account can be inactive for before deleting it
I love that phishing emails can use "False urgency" legitimately to make you click the links in their emails when they pose as Ubisoft, as most people tend not want their account to be closed. You should never be forced to specifically click the links in the email, it just opens up opportunities of account theft
Seriously, my first thought seeing this E-mail was that it was a scam.
That's why you always check the email address of the sender and check where the link goes first by hovering your cursor over it.
@@lainiwakura1776 It's rather easy to spoof that. That's why you just don't click it to begin with. Overconfidence will always be your downfall.
@@lainiwakura1776 I've seen indian scammer videos where they make things look really legit
@@lainiwakura1776 yeah... you can still spoof that
I’ve been worried about this for a while. Even if the games’ accesses aren’t revoked by the company itself, there will be a day where the online service or the company hosting the game will go belly up and every title you own under it will be inaccessible forever due to everything being digital and requiring online service.
Sonys not going within 70 years
@@alexradice8163it was only a year ago that Sony had planned to permanently shutdown PS3 and Vita services. Thankfully the community forced them to change their minds. Just because a company still exists doesn't mean they won't revoke your access to services.
@Purturtur I think you misunderstood how that worked. Players would still have access to all their games on ps3, they just wouldn't be able to use online/purchase new ps3 games
@@alexradice8163 And that was equally retarded.
I just logged into steam after almost 9 years and still had everything. What a nostalgic rush I got from that 😂
Steam is every habitual procrastinator's wet dream.
If I had a dollar for every bad decision Ubisoft has made, I’d be able to buy Ubisoft
Fr
so true
And I’d probably trust you running the company more than the dumbasses running it right now.
@DontReadMyProfilePicture.94what do you even get out of this bro theres literally no scam on your page or anything do you just do this for fun or is it one of em crazy ass kinks people got
You could say that for literally every corporation you don't understand.
Using a link to cancel an account closure sounds exactly like a phishing email scam. If they're really going to maintain a dumb policy like this, they could at least just instruct you to independently log into your own account, and then send a follow-up email saying the closure was cancelled. Otherwise, they're just opening up people to losing their accounts through a security breach.
Ikr that’s exactly how phishing fraud works
This sounds like the scam Jim Browning fell for except it's fuckin real. Yuck
like, gmail is literally just "log in and you'll keep your account active"
Fr that link looks sus asf
And now millions of people are gonna get fake scam links.
This is off topic, but I love Charlie’s little tangents at the beginning of every video, they sound so absurd but he’s able to tie them back to the topic at hand, Awesome!!!
i remember this being one of the major arguments about why we shouldn't go digital with everything... also subscription services. Eventually no one will own anything.
State owned games 💀
Sure hope we won't see a communist takeover in the gaming industry...
this is DRM issue not a digital issue DRM can exist for physical media to theres really not much difference between a file being on your pcs drive and it being on the disk
"Piracy is almost always a service problem, not a price problem"
- Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve
Arguable. I ain't paying for old CoD games as if they came out yesterday.
@@D1mly That's why there's that "almost" caveat. If you don't want to get financially fingerfucked by Activision for a bit of nostalgia then no reduction of friction (pun not intended) in the process of buying and playing said game will convince you otherwise.
Remember kids: piracy and theft are adjacent but also quite different.
@@D1mly True, but that's why Nintendo has piracy issues surrounding older games, not their newer games. Besides, the old games still giving revenue after they have already surpassed your profit expectations is just a bonus.
The old CoD games already got their maximum profit, which is why you'll see them for any price between 1-25$.
hmmm, not really, Autodesk really priced their shi t so high it just ridiculous
in first world country yes, in poor countries, definitely not
Ubisoft was really like “how can we make people as mad as possible?”
@@k.w.6626my problem is im poor and can't afford wifi so I guess r6 is gone
Yep. Most people who receive such an email will log into their account once just to make sure it stays, even if they do not intend to keep using it. They paid for those game after all, right? The only accounts UbiSoft will delete this way are people who missed the email. Literally the only ones who won't get mad are the deceased. As such, this policy is a controversy generator with no other benefit.
this isnt new, its been like this for years, and they dont even do it to accounts with games on it
Because they know gamers won't do anything about it. They will wave the next Assassin's Creed in front of us like jingling keys in front of a baby and gamers will climb over each other to buy it as fast as possible with their newly re-created Ubisoft accounts.
pretty sure it is in the Terms and Conditions
This is why I will always fight against games being digital-only. It's 2023, the only excuse for yout to not be able to sell physical copies of your game is that you can't afford it.
Hell, the PowerWash Simulator devs are releasing a physical copy of their game. If they can do it, big game companies *DEFINITELY* can.
Physical media means nothing these days when games require a day 1 patch to even function.
@@Purturtur Different conversation, but I do agree with you there.
ngl this isn't a problem on pc , we can pirate whatever we want and it will forever stay up on torrents
Okay this isn't actually the case, this isn't a Ubisoft issue, in fact every digital company operating in the EU has to remove their user data they collect after a period of inactivity.
According to Ubisoft's policies they only deactivate accounts that have no games tied to it, if you do have games you're all good and for those accounts that don't have any games tied to it, the account will only be removed after four years, prior to which a user gets notified over email. That is only if you don't have any games, as long as you have games like on any store front your account won't be deleted. This isn't a new policy or anything, it's always been there and if you study computers you'd have heard about the EU's regulations regarding this matter.
"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem" - Gaben
The price of games and services keep going up but my vpn stays the same 🤔
No it's a people problem and they must be dealt with along with Gabe himself
@@Derivedwhale45i'll take a pirate game/service for free over some overpriced crap anyday
I love steam so much I don't even mind paying for games twice if it means I get a copy on steam (versaus my old CD/DVD only retail release)
I could just as easily pirate but steam has great deals so often
my biggest complaint with steam is that not every game is on it
Right. If someone couldn't afford it, then they wouldn't buy your game anyways, so you never lost a customer if they pirate. But if you make a game harder or even impossible to obtain (or in this case, make a game disappear from your library), then prepare to lose potential, current, and future customers.
"When you pirate a game you own it."
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This truly the most timeline of all time.
THATS BAD OBLIVION DOESNT DO THAT
*You don't own it unless you hold it or control it.*
@@shonenjumpmagnetoBUT U OWN OBLVIION ONCE U BUY IT
@@NigerianCrusader your mom doesn't do that
@@angel_of_rust do WHAT?
I’m glad Charlie keeps us updated on important events like those. My son has a Ubisoft account and I would’ve had no idea about any of this if Charlie would not have brought it to light so thank you Charlie.👍🏻
They sent u an email to notify you with a 30 day time period to login and let them know that u wanna keep the account. And this is not a new thing its been done so long by other companies like riot and microsoft aswell because of GDPR law in the EU which forces them to delete any inactive accounts since the law says that they have no right to hord user data of a customer
I know someone who couldn't log into their ubisoft account because he had lost his original registrated email and the support would say they were changing the email into the new one but send an otp by sms, everytime the otp would arrive in the old email. It took 3 months to change that email and be able to access the account again, and support would always just say no, we sent it by sms, not the email, you're not being cooperative.
What's crazy to me is that just logging into your account doesn't reset the timer. You actually have to click the option to stop your account from being deleted. That means someone who committed the crime of missing an email could actually login and start playing the game they paid for... And still have their account deleted. Wild
This is especially absurd, because "click on a link or bad stuff will happen" is the basic cornerstone of phishing emails.
Yes, signing back into your account should reset the timer. At least it should present you with the same link you can click on from inside the app.
@@nonyabidness8676better yet it just shouldn't happen. If my account gets deleted I will never even remotely think about another Ubisoft product.
Guess what if you bought a game your account isn't eligible for deletion its in the same terms but they didn't read that part...
It's most likely on purpose so people have to buy the games again.
@@BunPrincedude, they deleted accounts with paid content on them. What are you talking about?
Charles really raised a point I never really thought about: with digital-only games, the only way to really own a game is to pirate it. this is so surreal, why aren't more people talking about it? it's not just the game development part of the industry that needs to rethink things, distribution also, apparently
It's something that's been talked about since digital-only games existed lol
It's like streaming only movies/shows. I want to own a copy, not pay a monthly sub to access that one movie/show
I have been pirating ubisoft games for a good year now. I only own AC Origins because it got very cheap on steam. But knowing this now I will continue on pirating their games 😂😂😂😂
@@tticusFinchAnd in that case, pirating is even EASIER.
Seriously, I can find a link to a show I want to watch where I'm not "supposed to" faster than digging up the family streaming service password
Been saying this for years.
So not only you pay full price for terrible ubisoft cashgrabs, you also have to make mandatory check in every month
I sense a “failure to render promised services” lawsuit coming in the near future
I hate that video game companies nowadays punish you for buying a game legally...
I mean, according to their TOS and EULA (which you have to agree to in order to play their games) they quite literally can do this legally.
"These Terms are effective unless and until terminated by either You or UBISOFT. These Terms may be terminated or suspended at any time, without notice, for any reason, including without limitation due to violations of the Code of Conduct. If you have more than one Account, We reserve the right to delete all the Accounts you have opened."
"The EULA is effective from the earlier of the date You purchase, download or use the Product, until terminated according to its terms. You and UBISOFT (or its licensors) may terminate this EULA, at any time, for any reason"
And they still wonder why people pirate their games
@@knighter1209how to drive people to piracy 101
@@Alucard-mj6yj thats difficult with online games, but yeah.
@@knighter1209 i mean, there's been plenty of cases where EULAs have been wholesale thrown out of court, as they were deemed to not actually be valid. So no, just cause something is in the Terms and Conditions, doesn't mean they actually have a right to enforce it
It's funny how each game company (Ubisoft, EA, Blizzard & Activision) wanted to make their own game market different from Valve's Steam and they all failed.
And all they had to do was copy what steam did at an extremely basic level and they still failed. I loved origins offline mode that required you to login to use
We have to be careful though. If steam fails in the future we're screwed. We have to fight for better right to own our software. With our wallets of course, sont buy from ubisoft and if valve comes up with bullshit we can't buy it.
@@GonzoDonzo Steam also works on extremely basic level, and that's why it works. They wanted to overdo them and in the process bent themselves and got fcked without even noticing
they should copy gog
simple recipe without using any drm and anti costumer practice
@DPedroBoh Steam has taken measures for you to keep your games if it ever goes down.
You can disappear for 7 years and Steam won't even email you about it. Soon as you log in, it is like Cheers.
if i buy a book in 2003 and don't pick it up for 20 years it is still my book, it doesnt magically get taken away
I love how he goes on a whole Bernstein bear crisis just to say that companies make terrible decisions.
I don’t blame him, I swear on my two front teeth it was “Berenstein”. Even then, I thought it was “Bearstein”
@@YouKnowImOnMyPeriodYah It is, in fact, Bloodstain.
@@YouKnowImOnMyPeriodYahas a 30 year old, I can't remember it ever being Berenstain.
@@ericb868929 here and same
this wouldn't be a mandela effect if americans pronounced it right instead of pronouncing both berenstain and berenstein as "berensTEEN"
SW dev here (not a DB architect tho) -
If their primary accounts database/table is poorly made for scalability, then it could legitimately help them freeing up rows of inactive users - IMO large majority of existing rows in the table are inactive users.
BUT - outright deleting is a terrible way to do things, they could achieve the same level of optimisation without pissing off the users by "deactivating the inactive users" - remove them from the primary DB and migrate them into an archival DB, that does not need to be as fast/ efficient - If someone later returns, that user could go through a reinstating process, where the account is restored from the archive into the production DB.
System architects did just that on a project I worked on - one heavily used list was getting so bloated, that the performance was negatively affected, so they made rules for an automatic + manual archival. The production list got significantly faster and if someone needed to browse through the archives once in a while, they could wait a couple of extra seconds.
I suspect there might be legal reasons why they want to do this on top of maintaining their DB. Either way, anybody that couldn't see this coming is delusional.
That was my first thought as someone who coded basic stuff in hs. Why not make it inactive on archivable server even with speed capacity of a floppy disk, that's more than enough to send a request to transfer back to the main base
My assumption with their reasoning is that inactive accounts usually tend to be security liabilities, hence why you also see inactive account deletion from things like banks, credit card companies, even Google has plans in the works to do this after accounts have been inactive for I think 2 years
As a data engineer, I 100% agree- moving them into a separate DB would be a good solution but also I'm not too familiar with the data laws they are mentioning
My initial thought was that they're trying to increase their chances of selling more games once someone is forced to log back in. They probably assume if they show game ads to more people then the chances of someone purchasing that game increase.
But it's a ridiculosly stupid fucking way of boosting sales revenue that doesn't address the fundamental issue - most their games and services suck ass.
"Their water supply must be infested with stupid juice."
It's Montreal. Of course it is.
On the Barenstein vs Barenstain thing, it's both. The company has pretty rough track record of using both names on their products haphazardly. You can find books with Barenstain and the corresponding VHS tape with Barenstein and vice versa.
wai what
@@dboldersgaming7152 Did a little more digging since my original comment. The books/VHS cassettes with Berenstein are usually knock offs, but they're so commonly found that if you grew up in the Berenstain Bears popular age, you probably had a few of them lying around. Mike Berenstain said in an interview that people had been insisting to him that he had spelled his name wrong since he was a kid and that he should spell it the other way, but his actual surname really is Berenstain. That confusion carried over into the production of the books and that's why you'll see both spellings and why so many remember it as Berenstein. It's not the Mandela effect.
Agreed it should be very illegal as Muta said people can potentially be losing hundreds if not thousands of dollars worth of content
Remember a long time ago, when you could just buy a game, and then you _owned that game?_
Hot take time: if purchasing a game isn't ownership, then piracy isn't theft.
that and you may have thousands of hours on a game like the division and then its just all gone, literally years of your life deleted
If they bought ea games then that moneys already been lost
@@TrackpadProductions piracy is not theft anyways
every day i agree more with the statement "piracy can't be stealing if paying for it isn't owning"
This feels like a massive lawsuit in waiting. I can see suspending accounts for inactivity if it wasnt tied directly to paid content, but this is directly stealing from consumers if they dont log in enough
I legit can't tell the replies are joking or bots
@@lolyouz6476bots
@@lolyouz6476they're bot accounts.
Impossible for a lawsuit. They told you that they would do this and if you choose to use the service anyway, its on you. It's stupid, but you couldn't sue them.
@@popninja8658 thats not how that works, them saying their gonna crime you doesn't negate punishment for the crimes they do.
Your theory is correct and why Trump ended up President in our timeline in 2016. There's a timeline out there where Trump never became President, instead Bernie became President and everything is perfect.
Berenstein is said with a noticable Southern twang, so "stein" turns into "stane".
I 100% see a situation where within 30 days someone is unable to check emails. Like military deployment or an extended hospital/vacation.
TODD HIWARD WILL SENT U AN EMAL TO WORK ON ELDER SCROLLS SIX
Or just like any normal person you dont go checking your emails on a monthly basis. I have like 10k unread because every single service you register to, spams some random shit.
@@slendydie1267?
Or some crazy scenario like you survive a plane or boat crash and get deserted on some island, I mean always possible lol. Just imagine u survive for months maybe longer, on this fuckin island, u go through hell, you finally are rescued and come back, and ur so relieved and u just wanna dit down and play ur favourite game and THEY DELETED IT ALL.
@@chubbyanemone696Op meant probably something like my case. I have several hundreds of "spam" (like game sales) messages from Ubi on my personal gmail account alone. Their "deletion message" can be literally there, without me noticing for several months to years.
“Banished to the dufus dimension.” Got damn that’s my new favorite saying.
saw the quote under a louis rossman video that said, “piracy isn’t stealing if purchasing isn’t owning.”
Love Charlie’s new vocabulary after watching Oppenheimer
my exact thoughts 🤣 we love you so much, Charlie!!!
Lol
That’s why I love good literature
Like a walking thesaurus
You honestly think he's gonna see this after you spammed any comment you could think of to post it early
Haha
This is like if I purchased a magazine subscription and one day they came knocking on my door saying I haven’t read those magazines in a long time and they’re taking them back… unreal.
This
Or it’s like buying a video game that you haven’t played in a while an they show up to take the video game back.
No because you payed for a product that is now yours, you could hide it, burn it, shove it up your butt. You dont own digital things and never have.
That isn't true. This decision will help remove the bots.
@@ERMOONSaladino4o it's like you purchased an iPhone and then didn't use it for a month so Apple comes and takes it to "prevent bots" from using the app store
Well, add every Ubisoft product to my list of "games I am not going to play without pirating"
I was banned on CSGO almost directly after spending around 100 dollars on skins, training on aim maps for about an hour every morning, playing deathmatch regularly and playing with friends. my steam account was almost 10 years old at this point. (this was around 5 years ago) A friend of mine was recording all his matches to make videos. When this happened I reached out to steam and offered to provide this footage I even provided detailed accounts of what I did leading up to the ban. 2235 days later I still have not received more than an automated reply.
This does happen on steam, to accounts with no history of suspicious behavior, with 1000s of dollars spent on them, even when people are 100% willing to comply in an investigation (with video footage of the matches).
out of all ubisoft moments, this is DEFINITELY one of them.
What’s with these bots bruh
The funniest part about this "joke" is that it's so similar to the bot comments replying to it that I can't tell if you're a bot or not. Charlie's fans have to be some of the most unfunny, unoriginal people on RUclips lmao
Honestly you're cringe
@@Sleepyboi_U these bots = free promotion for Charlie.
@@Sleepyboi_UI'm reporting as many of them as I can
I'm pretty sure that there is actually grounds for a class action lawsuit, which honestly needs to happen. Terms of Use can only go so far, from a legal stand point, and more steps need to be taken in preserving consumer rights in the game industry.
I totally agree, but watch some shmuck say that it violates the 1st Amendment and it becomes completely legal
@@a.s.3805 They wont? There is already legal precedent to keep companies from doing this sort of stuff in contracts. It just needs to be challenged in this specific case and then companies will learn not to do this
I will spread ur cheeks lil bro 😭🙏🙏I betta not catch you in my comments again or it’s finna gon be OVER for you 👾
An arbitration agreement means no class action lawsuit is possible. It's mostly the fault of Congress. The Supreme Court made some questionable decisions but it would be very easy for Congress to fix.
@@armacham Arbitration also can be overruled. Given the nature of this, I have a feeling this will be a supreme court issue about what the licensing for digital products actually entails
Imagine waking up from a coma wanting to game and your account is just gone
Thank you for the information. I honestly did not think I could dislike Ubisoft as a company any more than I already did. I was mistaken.
YOU GUYS DO KNOW THAT CHARLIE SUPPORTS PEDOPHILIA AND RACISM. HE'S COMMITTED SO MANY DAMN HATE CRIMES AND GOT AWAY WITH IT.
Brainwashed too much kid? U won't last long with that mindset
Fr Ubisoft sucks
Glad I cant be a victim. I will never buy a Ubisoft product. They are a dogshit devooper and horrid company.
@@Vercusgames I don't know why they would do this to sell off, though. I can't really think of a single pro for this.
You don't really get your access to your Steam games revoked if you are banned. What complicates it is that there are different kinds of bans but most of them do not affect your library, just community features and/or matchmaking in games using VAC. Unless you commit credit card fraud or anything of the sort you can pretty confidently live knowing that you'll always have access to your Steam library regardless of how long you haven't logged onto your account unlike with Ubisoft Connect.
How'd you find this out?
@@Sohalia06 have an almost 5 year old vac ban on my account and this is accurate, I just can’t play CSGO matchmaking, make CSGO trades, or interact with some community posts and reviews.
Also I’ve seen it’s rumored to be possible to have your account removed and access to library revoked in some cases of game piracy, but I’m not aware of the circumstances for this to occur.
@@Sohalia06 How about you simply take a look at your local Steam Folder?
All your installed games, are actually installed on your computer.
Shocker, right?
Meaning you can make a safe copy of them, as many times as you want.
@@capt_nuggetyh if you pirate a game thats on steam you get banned. Only if its an online game though
Yes but if you follow the rules you won't lose games it's still crappy but way way less worse then breaking no laws and having your games deleted simply for inactivity
There is going to be a lot of surprised pickacu faces when piracy increases
I could possibly see Ubisoft being forced by the Australian government to not do this in Australia because of their consumer protection laws
I still wont move to Australia. Yall bugs cray cray
Cool laws though👍🏾
Auatralia is known for deregulation of *issues which effect basic environmental safety*, so I don't think they'll be forcing Ubisoft to do anything anytime soon.
only reason i don’t move to australia is y’all’s demonic ass bugs
australia doesn’t have bugs, they have foreign creatures from outer space
I appreciate that Charlie is continuing to tie everything back to the Bernstein vs Berenstain thing
If the Germans had won, we'd be talkin about Wolfenstein vs Wolfenstain 💀
It's super weird. I would swear on my life that in the 90's it was Chic FIL A and now it is Chick-fil-A. I have vivid memories joking that the chicken was Chic so it must be cool.
he messed up the pronunciation tho.. he got the new one wrong 😂 the og one was “steen” new one is “stine” (not spelling, did that phonetically ofc)
In the depths of the enchanted forest, a hidden portal revealed itself only once a century, shrouded in ancient runes and guarded by Penguinz0. Eager to unveil its secrets, a daring group called the "reddit moderators" embarked on a perilous quest to unlock the portal's magic and discover the realm that lay beyond youtube as a whole. As the appointed night arrived, they stood before the RUclips comment section, hearts pounding with anticipation, ready to step into the unknown and embrace their destinies. They then saw Sustation and backed away filled with fear and agony they ran back to their mothers basement and sat there weeping with misery
@@luckyluchiano72
U ever think he was doing it phonetically?
thank god, i finally have a good reason to never touch a ubisoft license again
Here's the thing. About a half a year ago I was changing phones and I completely erased all the data from my phone, including the Ubisoft Authenticator, which was linked with Google Authenticator App, which by itself, works as an offline Authenticator. All that means is, I can't log into my account. Of course, for this special case Ubisoft sends you the recovery codes for your Authenticator the moment you make it, but I got them either lost or they made their way to "Spam" folder and got deleted long ago. I pleaded for about a week and a half for support to turn off the Authenticator from my account (even using different languages). But yesterday they complied with my wish and deleted my Authenticator without asking a lot of stuff and just ignoring. Just for that I hold a little bit more respect to them and am grateful to guys from support team.
"The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates." - Gabe Newell
No way a Gabe quote!
@@TitanChromeE real
It's always hilarious to me when people quote gabe like this without considering the fact that steam is literally a DRM service. If it was truly only about service, then steam would let you download a DRM free copy of the game you buy.
@@NihongoWakannai people when gabe steam drm changes:
@@NihongoWakannai Steam DRM is a necessity. Gabe has to make it hard on the pirates otherwise no one will sell their games on Steam. Even then, Steam game piracy is still a thing though, not hard to look it up.
Game companies: "Why are people pirating games!?!? We need that money!"
Also game companies: *Makes stupid ass decisions like this*
Oh the irony. 🤦
imma speedrun pirate all ubi games that i have. I do not trust a Company that is Bipolar Schizophrenic thinking everyone is stealing money from them and Pulling out the meaniest shit
People pirate games because they believe in fee hand outs and don't work a good enough job.
And that's another reason why I still play games that's decades old
Their decisions aren't stupid. It helps get rid of bots and clears up space in their servers. Stop being salty that they are a good company.
"Hey there." Is exactly how an ex on mine started a message requesting no contact. XD
"Hey, click this link to avoid having your account deleted."
Someone needs to attend a cybersecurity course or two.
This is why GOG is awesome. You have access to your games in perpetuity and there are no DRMs embedded with games.
Most of the time, yes.
Pretty sure they some of the games are drm now, at least that's what I heard.
In perpetuity as long as gog continues to exist. That's not real perpetuity, I'm sorry.
Totally, GOG is so awesome they still haven't fixed their server issues, employees went on their happy weekend and removed the warning banner, without fixing the problem, so I still can't download Skyrim.
And the whole "no DRM" is a lie, there are even multiple lists made for games which have various forms of DRM on GOG.
As other have said that's just not true. That was supposedly the case with a similar company years ago called something like gtg, well they eventually shut down and everyone lost access to their games. If it's not physical you own nothing no matter what you're told
This is actually insane, Ubisoft should be sued into oblivion.
EDIT: Thank you everyone! Also, could you guys report the spam comments?
EDIT 2: Depending on where might help determine the legality but remember, just because something is legal doesn't mean it's moral. This company doesn't deserve your money and if you defend them taking away products you've bought that's actually insane. Imagine a scenario where it's legal for someone to come to your house, set your car on fire, and beat your legs in with a baseball bat. Would you defend this person because it's legal in this hypothetical scenario?
i mean its always been in their TOS from what ive read there is now law being broken
@@mrmunk0068 still not above consumer protection laws tos does not prevent you from getting sued for abusive tos
@@mrmunk0068Tos doesnt override consumer protection laws
@@mrmunk0068 but time got reduced from few years to 6 months
@@Shotaboatconsumer laws yes but there isnt really laws protecting digital goods as charlie said
Imagine if you went on vacation and your landlord told you "you haven't been home for the past 2 weeks, we're evicting you and taking our property back" that's literally what's happening here
I do believe there is something going on with this "data protection law" or whatever, because lately i've been getting a couple of emails from certain websites that they would delete my user data in 30 days unless i click a link or something (this is in the Netherlands btw). If this is the case and they are somehow obliged to delete accounts, they should at least send you the cd keys from your games so you can always get them back if you create a new account. That would mostly solve the problem.
EU stuff is making it harder for companies to hold your data indefinitely, that's good like 90% of the time but when it sucks it really sucks.
@@ShadowRulah it wouldn't be bad if... companies didnt harvest more than they need too.
Ubisoft is still entirely to blame for being too invasive
I had a friend who died and we used to play a lot of Siege. His account is probably long gone now, and I feel a mix of anger and sadness. Good thing we saved his stats. Something to remember all his recruit plays by.
Video game development is quickly becoming the least customer-friendly industry if they werent already.
The video game industry is the only industry that can genuinely get away with selling broken products with next to no punishment. I wish video game companies were held to the same standard as literally every other company that sells anything
@@mannymejia4339 I don’t think that it’s the only industry tho. When a game developing company gains money without actually giving any product, they usually get punished. If we’re talking about the actual product not looking like, let’s say the gameplay trailer, then it’s something entirely different. They don’t get punished because in the trailers, they specify “Not Actual Gameplay Footage” or “Not Final Product”. They basically tell you the final product probably won’t look like this. So, you actually pay for a product that looks like what they’re showing you in the trailer, and you actually get a product that looks like what they showed you on the trailer. I think this is the exact same thing with McDonald’s (or any restaurant chain) ads where they show you a beautiful looking product. But when you actually buy the product, it’s something that looks like the ads. Never the same. Usually worse. This is a shitty situation.
EA and Ubisoft are marching in with the worst possible policies for this. EA wants your money, Ubisoft wants your time.
All in an industry that REQUIRES a customer friendsly base.
@@malmclaus I’m not talking about what is advertised. I’m talking about releases that are genuinely broken to the point they are unplayable. Assassins Creed Unity is a good example. That’s like selling a car with all the electronics busted.
Google just sent out an email saying they’re gonna be deleting “inactive accounts if you haven’t logged in within 2 years”
Imagine the dudes who signed up for active duty and they come back to find their account has been closed and they can't play farcry anymore
Considering how much they’re willing to cut corners, a lawsuit for this shit would be a great wake-up call
Wild they went with the "totally not a phishing scam" phishing scam style email approach. I'm sure this wont result in people erroneously exposing their information to bad actors now that ubisoft set the precedent to expect that kind of email from them.
"Got banished to the duffus dimension....." Yea, that's about right!
Imagine a big ubisoft fan that has played every assassin's creed, watch dogs, and far cry game ever suddenly gets in a car crash and is in the hospital for months or maybe on a long trip for months and then gets the account closed for inactivity.
If Ubisoft still made good games these accounts wouldn't be inactive in the first place
Agreed I think the only game they made I'd be psyched to play again is black flag and that's how old now if I was playing it on ps3 and Xbox 360 and the newer games are very meh or have massive design flaws
It's bad time for Settlers 7, Anno 2070, M&M X and Heroes 6 & 7
I want GOG release PLEASE. Not logging for 6th month or say goodbye to you account? This is makes cracking and piracy an rightful option
YOU GUYS DO KNOW THAT CHARLIE SUPPORTS PEDOPHILIA AND RACISM. HE'S COMMITTED SO MANY DAMN HATE CRIMES AND GOT AWAY WITH IT.
Facts
You know what? That's probably exactly why they're doing this. They want people to come back
Ubisoft be like - Ok, let's make piracy looks like a really legit option.
That plus Denuvo on games like AC Origins, if u pirate the game, you can play it without Denuvo running in the background and being a ressource hog
Imagine what it’ll look like when all the money is digital 🤔
Everyone saw Netflix not suffer any negative consequences for cracking down on password sharing, Reddit faced no consequences for blocking API access, Hollywood faced no consequences for not paying writers, and realized they could get away with a lot worse stuff than they were already doing.
Yeah welcome to market economy. Hahaha
because people are hooked and cannot stop "consuming".
Just stop consuming and you will see the results.
That's the power of consumer. But they can't.
The system works(ed) well.
Nvidia faced no consequences for releasing shit products, Amazon faced no consequences for horrible working conditions, Triple A companies faced no consequences for releasing unfinished products. As long as people buy things without thinking, these companies will just continue to be awful.
@@Mystipaoniz Don't stop consuming, start pirating. This only works for digital services and goods.
Reddit failed because the morons announced the end date of their protest...they waved the white flag before they even started the "fight"
A big problem with this is that it camouflages with phishing emails.
Yeah that's very true. Really stupid
So ridiculous that it sounds fake
this was my first thought as well. It straight up sounds like a phishing email and I guarantee this will now be used as one
I 100% would have ignored and deleted this email if I saw it and now it might mean gambling on whether I lose purchases or not. Amazing
Phising?
@@user-ts1kp5dj9q Scammer "Fishing" for personal information.
typically as an email, disguised to be from a popular company. Typically with a context of something Drastic, to interest someone to interact with it (Losing all of your games), paired with a sense of time-sensitive urgency to be stopped by simply logging in (log in to fake Ubisoft=giving over your Username, Email, Password, and other things.)
I'm from the Berstan Bears timeline, I was really confused when it added the 'i". The split took place at Harambe's death
Imagine a bank doing this: "Oh yeah, so your money CAN be saved in the next 30 days". 100/100 people would think it's a scam and everyone would lose their money
998/1000 people
it’s also insane that they don’t detail what they consider “inactive”
2016 has always seemed to be the first cursed year, and every year it gets more and more out of hand.
Yup - we got the madness of Brexit here in the UK and people in the USA got Golden Elevator Trump. Both events were not a coincidence.
@@martin-1965America was screwes either way, shitty president before trump, then either clinton or trump which would both have been fucked. Now we got big man biden who probaly forgets to breathe on occasion.
@@martin-1965 bud keep politics out of here, there's lots of old people out there who love to complain about politics in your nearest park/pub, so you may go there and talk about non-gaming related stuff 😉
@nigstar1239 This may be shocking for your big boy brain but politics ultimately are why corporations are so able to just bend over the consumer and fuck them.
@@nigstar1239 Oh yeah, sorry, forgot that politics has no effect on anything in our lives and definitely not whether corporations can get away with shit like Ubisoft. Who makes the laws that say whether something "shouldn't be legal"? Anyway, don't worry, I won't dare speak again.
That opening reminded me of a story called "The Girl The Universe Forgot". It's my favorite and is extremely well narrated by The Dark Somnium.
Gotta love Ubisoft unintentionally opened up flood gates for some good phishing scams.
I love Charlie's videos because its not heavily edited and he doesnt put on an overly exaggerated voice, it legit sounds like your just having a chat with your best mate. Please dont ever change Charlie :)
Shut up
Buying physical media and preserving it still needs to be done. As these companies are making it not just inconvenient, but difficult to buy their video games. They do not want you to own a copy of a game anymore, instead be bound by their online access service.
Which is fine cause plenty of us gamers including me are forever done with physical and you should too cause those days are over kid. Plenty of us got screwed over with the discs not reading or installing on our console (very clean fyi) n decided to get rid of them completely and buy them digitally from now on. We don't even care if we lose some of our licenses access for some of our products, we're prepared for it as long the majority of gamers n influencers get exactly whatever they want no matter what. Change is inevitable & u can't save EVERYTHING
@@Derivedwhale45 doesn't mean you shouldn't try to save some things, kid
Exactly!
@@cownose8949 then save them on your hard drive, yknow... the physical disc inside your computer?
@@cownose8949said the little guy here in a grown up conversation here kiddo. The sooner u understand reality, the better cause eventually you'll have to make the difficult choices u don't want to but must one or way. Us adults been doing it for a long, long time
The amount of scam emails that are going to come from this might be a little wild.
“Cancel Account Closure” how confusing that would be to non native English speakers
You know it’s gonna be a good one when Charlie’s talking about timelines and the Bearenstein Bears
Berenstain Bears. People like us who saw Berenstein Bears now live in an alternate Universe
Being stupidly gullible doesn't mean you live in an alternate universe
@@whocares9033I'm pretty positive it's a joke.
@@DrDark-im9kvthis RUclipsr is a major cornball half the time . Even when joking . It’s even funnier when he’s not joking and being wrong
Wait a minute, isn't it Berenstain? Or is this some Mandela Effect type shit?
It’s worrisome that other companies could follow through, physical has more of an incentive for this type of thing
This is one place where I'm gonna be optimistic - Following on from Ubisoft actively shooting themselves in the foot with an RPG-7, other companies will, God willing, look at this and go, "Okay, yeah, maybe we shouldn't do that."
@@skeptixalpowers7777🤖
@@GoredonTheDestroyerIt could be like the Magic 30 thing similarly; at least it feels like it was actually an incentive to prove better loyalty like what YGO is doing for their 25th.
Physical is not 100% always better I have physical copies of games that can no longer run because the services it relies one once installed no longer exist lol. Section 8 was one of those windows live for games or whatever that's long dead.
@realyozdo you have no life or do you just wait for Charlie to post so you can comment this?
2012 wasn't the end of the world. Instead, it was when our universe collided with a bizarro universe
I literally just opened my email, saw this in my junk folder, and went "huh, they're impersonating ubisoft now". I guess reality is often stranger than fiction, since fiction must make sense.
? Fiction is stranger than reality since it makes sense, what does this even mean
@@trentdavis3304 Good fiction usually has to make some kind of sense for it to be "good".
Think you meant “reality is often stranger than fiction”
@@trentdavis3304 Sometime fiction is more believable than reality
Common example is glass bottle, from movies they are shown to shatter easily, irl they are pretty hard
@@covenantslayergaming6362Like the other guy said I think you just got the words fiction and reality in the wrong places in that sentence
imagine waking up from a coma excited to play your ubisoft games and what do you know they gave you the boot
Sorry, I tried, but I can't imagine myself excited to play a Ubisoft game.
Simply pirate it. Or it's better to say "just download it", since "pirate" sounds like something bad. In case with Ubisoft it's a good thing to do. I wish everyone just stop buying their shitty copy pasted games and everything at all for a few years, I wonder what would've happened then
YOU GUYS DO KNOW THAT CHARLIE SUPPORTS PEDOPHILIA AND RACISM. HE'S COMMITTED SO MANY DAMN HATE CRIMES AND GOT AWAY WITH IT.
Or off to deployment…
@@victorpurificacao2855 The only good Ubisoft game I can think of is Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. I tried getting into Ghost Recon Wildlands and Assassin's Creed Origins but dropped both within an hour.
Hearing "I'm not a quantum physicist" after the Oppenheimer moist meter was perfection
Ubisoft: (Makes tweet about terminating inactive accounts)
Me: "Cool and now scam organizations are definitely not going to copy this and try to scam the crap out of so many people for their money..."
Thank gods I don't have an email about closing my Ubisoft account currently after SEVEN years of playing my games from them and stuff, this honestly pisses me off more than what Ubisoft usually does, thank you Charlie for bringing this up, I don't follow their stuff on Twitter and that stuff certainly wouldn't be on their RUclips
@SheepManYFGA
You're irrelevant.
@@SussyRobloxLordno one asked
@@NickRightAtYa Don't respond, just report these failed abortions
@@NickRightAtYa they are just bots who don't know any better
The 2020s really are gonna be the decade where all the big companies try to race to the bottom, isn't it?
It's almost like a competition to see who can fuck up their services at this point. Piracy Gang.
and normal people are stuck in the cluster….. fudge?. yeah that shi..tuff :)
All it took was for a submarine to go boom to get the ball rolling.
YOU GUYS DO KNOW THAT CHARLIE SUPPORTS PEDOPHILIA AND RACISM. HE'S COMMITTED SO MANY DAMN HATE CRIMES AND GOT AWAY WITH IT.
@@Jamlord2061is RUclips being strict on your slurs again?
Edit: I meant to say curse words, not slurs. Apologies to Waymin for being an ignorant smartass
I love how you can see him reading the ad prompt
SomeOrdinaryGamers: This Should Be Illegal...
Penguinz0: This Shouldn't Be Legal