Hackernews posts about Ubisoft

Ubisoft is a multinational video game developer and publisher that has developed a notorious reputation for enforcing strict digital rights management policies and deleting user accounts without warning or notice.

1. Ubisoft Spins Off AssassinsCreed,FarCry,Rainbow 6, Backed by $1.25B from Tencent (variety.com)
   11 points by homarp 5 days ago | 3 comments
2. Ubisoft's $4B carveout sells Tencent a 25% stake in some of its biggest games (www.theverge.com)
   3 points by mfiguiere 4 days ago | discuss
3. Ubisoft Says Out Loud: We Want People to Get Used to Not Owning What They Bought (www.techdirt.com)
   395 points by rntn about 1 year ago | 261 comments
4. Sony, Ubisoft scandals lead to California ban on deceptive digital goods sales (arstechnica.com)
   311 points by BuildWithMason 6 months ago | 111 comments
5. Ubisoft account -including games- can be permanently deleted for inactivity (www.pcgamer.com)
   294 points by yabatopia over 1 year ago | 214 comments
6. Ubisoft is stripping people's licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown (www.pcgamer.com)
   181 points by croes 12 months ago | 125 comments
7. Ubisoft Employees In France have gone on a Strike (playstationcouch.com)
   117 points by cannibalXxx about 1 year ago | 183 comments
8. Ubisoft blames 'technical error' for showing pop-up ads in Assassin's Creed (www.theverge.com)
   112 points by bookofjoe over 1 year ago | 89 comments
9. Dark Messiah modding community got Ubisoft approval (www.moddb.com)
   89 points by retro_guy over 1 year ago | 37 comments
10. Assassin's Creed publisher Ubisoft facing lawsuit for shutting down game (www.gamingbible.com)
    69 points by bookofjoe about 1 year ago | 55 comments
11. Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get Comfortable with "Not Owning Your Games" (www.thegamer.com)
    44 points by zzzeek about 1 year ago | 38 comments
12. Nearly 700 Ubisoft Workers Went on Strike This Week (aftermath.site)
    43 points by danbolt about 1 year ago | 1 comments
13. Ubisoft is killing off a game millions have bought (The Crew) (www.windowscentral.com)
    36 points by beretguy about 1 year ago | 45 comments
14. Upset at Rainbow Six Ban, Gamer Swats Montreal Ubisoft Office (www.dexerto.com)
    21 points by cushpush over 1 year ago | 3 comments
15. Ubisoft sued for shutting down The Crew (www.polygon.com)
    12 points by Sniffnoy 5 months ago | discuss
16. CA law inspired by Ubisoft, Sony requires warning that games can be taken away (www.pcgamer.com)
    10 points by kristiandupont 6 months ago | 1 comments
17. Ubisoft is using bots to promote new Assassin's Creed (www.neogaf.com)
    10 points by chaoz__ 7 months ago | 1 comments
18. Microsoft to sell off Activision cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft (www.theverge.com)
    9 points by mfiguiere over 1 year ago | discuss
19. Ubisoft let me speak with its new AI-powered video game NPCs (www.theverge.com)
    8 points by nateb2022 about 1 year ago | 1 comments
20. Microsoft sells Activision Blizzard cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft (www.theverge.com)
    7 points by solardev over 1 year ago | 1 comments
21. Ubisoft+ New "Not Owning Your Games" Policy Checkout Extreme Community Reactions (digialps.com)
    7 points by alimehdi242 about 1 year ago | discuss
22. Ubisoft Says Gamers Should Get More Comfortable Not Owning Their Games (gizmodo.com)
    6 points by nickthegreek about 1 year ago | 3 comments
23. December 20th an unknown Threat Actor compromised Ubisoft (twitter.com)
    6 points by lopkeny12ko over 1 year ago | discuss
24. Ubisoft confirms it will delete account and games after period of inactivity (twitter.com)
    5 points by TechBro8615 over 1 year ago | 4 comments
25. I talked to Ubisoft Devs, it's far worse than we thought [video] (www.youtube.com)
    5 points by lnyan 6 months ago | discuss
26. Ubisoft Pressuring Steam to Remove Player Count Tracking After Star Wars Flop (www.smashjt.com)
    4 points by snvzz 4 months ago | 4 comments
27. Ubisoft launches blockchain RPG with playable NFTs priced up to $63K (www.tomshardware.com)
    4 points by LorenDB 5 months ago | discuss
28. Tencent Mulls Ubisoft Buyout (finance.yahoo.com)
    4 points by A4ET8a8uTh0 6 months ago | discuss
29. Supercell and Ubisoft accused of tricking gamers into spending more money (fortune.com)
    4 points by peutetre 7 months ago | discuss
30. Five former Ubisoft executives arrested after sexual harassment investigation (www.gamesindustry.biz)
    4 points by KittenInABox over 1 year ago | discuss
31. Microsoft/Activision: new Ubisoft cloud streaming deal to get UK CMA approval (blogs.microsoft.com)
    4 points by Aissen over 1 year ago | discuss
32. Ubisoft closing “inactive” accounts, deleting user’s downloaded games (www.neowin.net)
    4 points by atdrummond over 1 year ago | discuss