• Katana314@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So, somebody’s a liar.

    I’m sure most people will assume the lying party to be Ubisoft: They claim accounts holding games are not eligible for deletion. Given their reputation, I don’t blame people for assuming this; but I also never theorized any kind of greedy reason why they’d do that.

    The other possibility is that the person who first posted the email about their account deletion is a liar - and omitted the fact that they did not have any games on their account (essentially having made it and never used it, and had no games to lose but still whined about it).

    I’m maybe more ambivalent; mostly, I’m trying to picture how hard it is for companies to navigate the labyrinth that is EU law. “Right to be forgotten” regulations are certainly a confusing legislation. Ironic that they claim (perhaps untruthfully) that this was to comply with GDPR, and people were insisting that deleting accounts was ALSO against EU consumer regulations.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      but I also never theorized any kind of greedy reason why they’d do that

      I could: Increases average account activity for shareholder evaluation.