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Here we go again. Ubisoft, deleting your games.....

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it's not me doing the "illegal" action so they shouldn't punish the buyers rather the ones that sell them

if you buy illegal aquired keys, you are doing something illegal

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......wouldn't ubisoft have gotten paid for those codes at some point in time? What does it matter if you buy a code and sell it to someone else for the same or lesser price than you paid for it?

They don't. No serious bussiness will sell all their products at lost. They are stolen. 

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Illegal keys are illegal! :D

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it's not me doing the "illegal" action so they shouldn't punish the buyers rather the ones that sell them

It is the same thing as using a fake dollar note. You didn't print it but you use it and therefore you shall be punished. 

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It is the same thing as using a fake dollar note. You didn't print it but you use it and therefore you shall be punished. 

Actually you can not know it that copy of game is acquired illegal. You bought it from site that claims that it's legal.

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It's a repost, I believe this is the 3rd thread I've seen.

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It is the same thing as using a fake dollar note. You didn't print it but you use it and therefore you shall be punished. 

but if it's a dollar note that looks identical to a real one and the person that gave it to you said it was a real one how are you supposed to know it's fake?

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They don't. No serious bussiness will sell all their products at lost. They are stolen. 

How could that code have been stolen? Wouldn't someone have had to purchase it from the original code creator at some point?

 

Not arguing, just don't understand how the code could have been stolen.

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How could that code have been stolen? Wouldn't someone have had to purchase it from the original code creator at some point?

 

Not arguing, just don't understand how the code could have been stolen.

Only chance is from someone inside.

If this is not the case (that someone from ubisoft leaked the codes) then it's simply marketing.

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Only chance is from someone inside.

If this is not the case (that someone from ubisoft leaked the codes) then it's simply marketing.

What do you mean by marketing?

 

Again I just don't understand. Ubisoft generates those codes, so if it wasn't someone leaking them from the inside, then it had to have been a purchased code right?

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Ubisoft is 100% in the right.

These illegal sites use shady methods to get original codes. Whether that's buying codes from other regions and then adding a markup OR using illicit methods (like fraud/theft) to get the keys and then reselling.

There are plenty of cheap gaming key sites that are 100% okay to buy from, there are those that aren't. Ubisoft is allowed to crack down on illicit key sales and strip you of a game you obtained from a shady source.

Someone sells you a stolen phone you still have to give it back if you get caught with it, even if you didn't know it was stolen in the first place.

But hey, let's keep on making shitty "keep on digging" jokes and be idiots about it and just hate on Ubisoft, it's probably easier for some people here not to think critically.

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Actually you can not know it that copy of game is acquired illegal. You bought it from site that claims that it's legal.

 

That is exactly my point, I didnt even knew it was illegal keys, I thought it were Russian keys, which have been lower for multiple years for unknown reasons.

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G2A doesnt use the key generator like that other site many months ago (don't remember the name). I remember every twitch streamer promoting it and when it got public they stopped the promo and switched to g2a.

The website should get punished ages ago if its as big of a problem as Ubi says it is !

Also if they do this, they lose more than a half of the players lol.

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That is exactly my point, I didnt even knew it was illegal keys, I thought it were Russian keys, which have been lower for multiple years for unknown reasons.

 

There is a very simple other case that happens quite often, especially with that G2A or other similar junk.

 

Some keys are purchased with stolen credit cards.

Then after a while (~ a month) all those payments are charged back by the bank.

 

Then from there it's pretty simple, Ubisoft can match the keys used and the missing payments and just disable them.

 

To be fair if you want to be safe, you buy from the original shop and save your precious pennies for the game you want.

At any point you try to go out of the route, you accept the risk and should not even try to complain when it goes wrong.

 

I have no sympathy.

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Please let my key be legal please.

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Steam, Origin and developers all can and do revoke keys if they are obtained illegitimately.

 

Credit card fraud is probably the number 1 reason since pretty much anyone could purchase 100+ units using a fake/stolen card, especially if delivery is instant.

 

For example Person A buys key using stolen card. Person A then sells to Person B (reseller, individual etc). Person B believe the keys are real so sells them, chances are the keys will trade hands multiple times before reaching an end user. Then a month later the original key resellers notices the lack of cleared payment and thus revokes the keys which of course has a ripple effect through all the people who purchased.

 

The key process is rarely as simple as Developer > Official reseller > Reseller website (For example Greenmangaming). Chances are tmost keys will pass from Developer > Official Reseller > Reseller > Reseller > Reseller > User.

 

The person or merchant you buy from may be trusted but you cannot make that guarantee for every reseller in the chain.

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What do you mean by marketing?

Again I just don't understand. Ubisoft generates those codes, so if it wasn't someone leaking them from the inside, then it had to have been a purchased code right?

The thing with g2a is that there is absolutely no certainty about the how the code was obtained. It could have been purchased through money that is not their own. They could also use a keygen software that outputs pseudorandom keys based on given patterns. I wouldn't be surprised if either case was true.

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Unisoft is well within their legal right to do this but it's not fair on those that bought their keys without knowing they were illegal. 

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FOR FUCK SAKE , all my season pass that i bought from G2A is missing 

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I lost my game because of exactly that

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FOR FUCK SAKE , all my season pass that i bought from G2A is missing 

 

Consider this a hard learned lesson on staying away from G2A and similar sites and sticking with GoG, Green, Steam, Amazon and verified sites that Origin UPlay and Steam are okay with you getting keys from. 

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Wow seriously? I bought AC:U legit from G2A. I paid £21, not legit my ass. Maybe I should have pirated the game! 

 

It was terrible anyways (I played like 20 mins of it n got bored), I'll just get my refund..

 

 

Not cool Ubi, go suck a ..

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Consider this a hard learned lesson on staying away from G2A and similar sites and sticking with GoG, Green, Steam, Amazon and verified sites that Origin UPlay and Steam are okay with you getting keys from. 

yet he probably still payed less than he would have if he bought from "legit" sites.

though i still think g2a is legit too. I have been buying codes from them and they always worked fine and none of them got disabled.

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yet he probably still payed less than he would have if he bought from "legit" sites.

though i still think g2a is legit too. I have been buying codes from them and they always worked fine and none of them got disabled.

 

I've been buying stolen cars all my life, they've always worked fine and none of them got disabled. But the one day the police come knocking and say "your car that you bought was actually stolen, we're seizing it" I can't really do much, can I? 

G2A acquires keys in grey ways. Sometimes generating valid codes. Sometimes buying them from cheaper places internationally. Sometimes using fraudulent CCs. If UPlay, Origin and Steam don't like that, tough luck. They are okay with a lot of sites that sell codes, they just don't like shady practices and clearly as we see here they will crack down on said practices without much remorse. 

 

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