Link to UBISOFT EULA (you can check it yourself):
https://www.ubisoft.com/legal/documents/eula/en-US
Instructions and Info about about "Stop Killing Games" petition:
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/
EU Petition (ENG):
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home
36 Comments
How is that not illegal?
Imagine you bought a book and suddenly someone chimes in and requires you to burn it cause they feel like doing so. (OR DVD’s )
hate to break it to you, they’ll just make 2 versions of the EULA, I’m on the good side, everyone else will get the unchanged version.
No way, is that a real eula? From which game?
If true what a complete load of shit. In any case please sign
I would sign if I could, but I live in the US.
That being said, I would like to see them try and enforce that clause…
yarr harr
If buying is not owning, piracy is not stealing, right, dear Ubishit?
And this is why I pirate/ get ubislop games preowned from cashies. (They don’t get a cent then)
“Technically, you said I don’t own the game, so nothing is ‘in my possession’.”
The petition barely getting the required signatures almost a year later really shows how uninterested people are in this. They like to talk big, make a huge scandal when a company decided to fuck them over,, but when it comes to acting nobody does a damn thing.
This sub alone has over 40 million subscribers and the petition was posted in here several times (as well as other subs). How the fuck did it not get the required signatures in like 2 months?
Sail your boat
It’s been 13 years since the last time I paid for their games. Not gonna change any time soon it seems.
Ubisoft can suck a dong as far as im concerned
Honestly, you’re just regurgitating the current news cycle. I’m quite sure these kinds of EULAs have been in place way before.
Piracy is the only way to preserve game atp
Buying a video game and then not being able to play it until you click “I agree” on an infinitely long contract that they know you’re not gonna read should have never been a thing
Pretty funny seeing people actually reading EULAs for the first time and realising that they are all shitty.
My possession? But I’m not owning it, right?
A lot of these End User License Agreements are legally untested, in any jurisdiction. They’re even unenforceable in some jurisdictions due to Consumer Rights laws
Don’t buy Ubisoft
https://i.redd.it/5lwx4yzwcgbf1.gif
OP reading EULAs for the first time, apparently. Everyone has known for decades that those things have a lot of anticonsumer and unenforceable language in them.
In that case, they should be held to the same standard, and delete all my data and anything else related to my account, and you can bet that would never happen.
Like wise any contact / service I end with a supplier they should also remove and destroy any data held of mine.
This is what many EULAs say, just worded differently. from Sony and Microsoft to Valve and CDPR they all have similar language.
This has been in EULAs since at least the 90’s.
This is rage bait, basically every single game company has this
This is literally how licensing law works. It has been this way since at least since VHS tapes were the common medium. These laws are pretty much the same in every developed country.
I get down voted to oblivion every time I point this out.
Even when you own a physical copy of the game(or movie or music) you still only hold a license to use the content. That license can be revoked. It was a lot harder for companies to enforce these licenses back in the day but they were not really much different than they are now.
The biggest difference here, and the one that matters most, is that companies can now arbitrarily turn off our games when they no longer want to support them.
EULAs really need to go. Almost nobody actually reads them. Almost nobody who reads them can actually understand all the legal jargon.
Guess what? Just because it says to doesn’t mean you have to. Play unconnected.
Just a friendly reminder that EULAs are not all-powerful, binding contracts.
Ubisoft can put this in there all they want, but there’s no way for them to enforce it, and I doubt any court would uphold it if it came to that as the terms are completely beyond reasonable. It also more than likely tramples consumer laws in most places their games are sold.
Do people really think this’ll hold up in court if they take action? Lol
I won’t destroy/uninstall anything. jokes on them. Keep signing.
Well, they can gargle my balls.
I wanna know what’s Ubisoft smoking. Seems dope.
This just motivates me to switch to Linux more
This text is from 2023, for those coming in ready to start blasting Ubisoft with “wow they updated their EULA specifically in response to the SKG petition.
And if I may pay devil’s advocate for a moment, and ignore the hyperbolic title:
This language doesn’t really move the needle. It applies to games that either:
– no longer function (servers are shut down)
– can no longer play (your account got banned, therefore you can’t log in
Is it hilariously awful and a fun highlight to juxtapose against the SKG stuff? Absolutely.
Should it not be in the EULA? Definitely.
Is it enforceable? Haha no.
Does it actually mean anything? Not really.
Will it generate a lot of ‘jerking and ragebaiting? You betcha. Ubisoft bad!
Yeah… fuck that and fuck them.