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This doesn't make any sense. This makes sense if the account is inactive and has no active licenses to it, but like, if you buy game X with whatever the industr
by Shank 3y ago
This doesn't make any sense. This makes sense if the account is inactive and has no active licenses to it, but like, if you buy game X with whatever the industry-current licensing is, and the expectation is that you have a license as long as you have an account, termination is silly. You have an active agreement (i.e., the license) to use the product. That's a contractual/business relationship.
You could just as easily delete all of the PII in the account by sending someone an email saying "your licenses are now attached to these codes, please use them to reactivate your licenses with a new account if you want to access them" but they don't. They just delete them. There are many ways to square this circle.
- ivan_gammel 3y agoIf you can prove that there is a person with the access to the account and it was the intent of the buyer for this person to have access, then fine, account can be kept. The email notification they send is proving exactly that.
- jstanley 3y agoYou have it backwards. Only if you can prove that there is not a person with access to the account and intention to access it can the account be deleted.
- ivan_gammel 3y agoThis proof is technically impossible and thus does not make sense as a solution. We are living in the world where zero trust is default and bad things happen, so the ONLY right way to protect customer data is to verify the identity regularly, rather than declaring it valid once and forever until proven otherwise.
- eviks 3y agoWe aren't living in this world, that's your imagination. Rather than making the users suffer by default, identify a more specific "bad thing" and address only that with the min user inconvenience
- horsawlarway 3y agoDude... come off it. You're wrong here, both legally and technically (and in my opinion, also ethically). In the bluntest possible way, even if you were correct (and you're not...): They could have just deleted the billing information and not the account. Ubisoft designed products that require an online account to use - Ubisoft is on the hook for providing that online access for account holders because they paid for that product. Alternatively - in any region with good consumer protection laws, they're about to issue a lot of full refunds.
- brnt 3y agoA digital purchase is often the purchase of a license to download and execute the product. If that's the contract, then it is necessary to keep some PI on file in order to respect the terms of the contract: offer a download upon request to a particular person. No need to keep PI on file indefinitely: the purchaser is enabled to take their wares and the store to remove accounts if dealing with PI laws is too much hassle. If this is too much hassle, they could instead sell a license to execute the software, regardless of how it is obtained (but offering a way to download for now, putting the purchaser in charge of backing up those files). Similar to what GOG are doing. But no, that's not enough control for them either. They want to have their cake and eat it too.
- brnt 3y agoPrecisely. Storefronts want their cake and eat it too: they want to take control they have over the license from the user, but without the obligation of actually keeping it accessible forever to the user.