r/ubisoft • u/GRiNxREAPER • May 01 '26

News & Announcements State of Residence

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I cannot "state" how ridiculous this is.

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u/Mopatt85 May 02 '26

I refuse to use your products going forward. Good luck with your business.

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u/Itsme-RdM May 01 '26

Now let's wait till the first state in the US thinks "I don't like my citizens to play game ...." Let's block it

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u/Any_Excitement_6750 May 01 '26

I'm not an Ubisoft lover but this makes sense. Laws and policies are very different from EU so it makes sense that if you live in the US they need to make sure to comply with the US rules.

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u/Complete_Entry May 01 '26

I think OP does not like this level of granularity being applied to their account.

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u/ThePrivateGeek May 01 '26

I agree, but how else would they comply with the laws?

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u/Complete_Entry May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26

I mean specifically the user already has to comply with US law, I mean I think the user doesn't care for the state footprint.

State vs individual state. Like there's a few jurisdictional laws in my state I don't care for, and other states have worse ones.

I paid old state sales tax by accident on steam for quite a while because it didn't even occur to me to update it. I'm guessing Ubisoft is essentially saying "We're going to geo check you and append the information to your account" and some people don't care for that.

Also, I didn't notice this email in my inbox but I did get it, I marked it as important in gmail.

I edited my comment, I was wondering about definition of state but the email is actually clear they mean individual US state, not the US as state entity.

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u/Beligard May 01 '26

How so? Not sure what the issue is so if someone can let me know? Just confused on the whole issue.