Ubisoft's Controversial Inactive Account Deletion Policy

Look, I had received a similar reminder email about account deletion over inactivity before for those accounts I don't use alot in the present time but that's for the other services I use. Even Google came up with a similar policy but that's nothing I can worry about alot since I watch videos on YouTube regularly. Within 30 days, the account will be removed for inactivity but according to the definitive clarification from Ubisoft, only inactive accounts with no game purchases will be removed in 30 days, not accounts with game purchases so that people can come back and continue from where they've left off.

People have other/important things to do and that's understandable. However, to certain people angry over this controversy, it's like Ubisoft goes out of their way to take advantage of this controversial policy to remove accounts of the affected gamers within 30 days while the affected gamers are doing whatever important thing that keeps them away from their homes for a longer period of time. It's also like Ubisoft follows on a treacherous footstep to take away those games the affected gamers bought by removing their accounts behind their backs while they're away. Some of the concerns are valid enough but some of the angry reactions had gone on a different direction.

Whether you'll choose to know/believe the definitive official information or not after the backlash, I guess it depends on whatever backlash you're offended over. I had seen some previous controversies where I chose not to know ANY piece of official information from the offenders. What could prolong the ongoing offense was an apology demand, meaning I'd be told to apologize to the offender just because I had criticized or made a rant on something that sparked the controversy. I wouldn't turn a blind eye over a time-wasting apology demand because it constituted as a backlash defense. I might be in the right to criticize such controversial stuffs in the end. Some examples included the disturbing dance movie on Netflix, Cu***s, and the licensed Miss Kobayashi game developed by Kaminari Games. So far, I didn't encounter any reply with creepy defense in mind being thrown at me because I made a rant about the latter at that time. What that meant was weirdos telling me some immature, useless or drama-stirring shit while they kept defending that disturbing crap like it's something beautiful or whatnot. You know what else was unacceptable? A misunderstanding card. There has to be a better statement than playing that stupid card and it's better be something believable.

The official clarification from Ubisoft is something people should refer to but there is one other reminder that you don't own anything when it comes to cloud gaming and NFTs. In case of NFTs, the only thing you get is the receipt and only idiots think that they own such NFT items when the receipt is actually the only thing. What about freemium mobile games? Well, unless they can be played offline, they're pretty much useless once discontinued. It's even the same for certain modern arcade games which happened to fall under Live Service category, meaning that they're updated with new content on a regular basis. Another reminder is that Microsoft came up with a controversial policy regarding used games for Xbox One but they quickly backtracked after all the backlash they faced and even then, people were smart enough to buy the Playstation 4 when it came out. It took Phil Spencer a lot of time to restore the reputation of the console.

Ubisoft had an audacity to bring up the GDPR law when people know for sure that the GDPR law is generally about protecting the users' privacy and Ubisoft could land themselves in legal trouble with the controversial policy they came up with, had it not sounded clear enough.

TeeVee Telly "free" TV

The main catch for this upcoming "free" TV called, Telly, is the inclusion of ads that are displayed on the bottom of the screen but there are other pre-inclusions that stir controversy prior to the release of this "free" TV sometime this year. Such pre-inclusions involve the camera, microphone and motion sensor, and this upcoming "free" TV is supposed to be available for home use.

Privacy-issues aside, I don't know for sure if the "free" TV, Telly, is going to attract some stupidity or not after knowing the fact that such pointless hardware features are included. Louis Rossmann had a video about this and one piece of mockery from him is about masochists going masochistic when it comes to privacy and limitations on the freedom. It's like they have no regards for privacy at all and new technology is what they care for regardless of whatever concerns good people have. It's also like the masochists ask for things to be collected by the tech companies for advertising, "product improvement", etc.

Other problems include the amount of distraction from the ads on the bottom screen, voice assistant, music, game room and AI feature. I don't know if the news part can be disabled or not. Like the Intellivision Amico, only the idiotic weirdos try to get their parents or their spouse and children to play games on Telly together. I can imagine the amount of creepiness coming from those shills and good people are smart enough to stick back to buying a standard TV or a better smart TV than Telly. I already have an extension where I can disable those distracting parts of the YouTube website like disabling the list of videos on the right side of the page, leaving the video player, live chat box and whatever below the video player intact, for instance.

En Eins Perfektewelt Anastasis

Similar to how the prequel had the major update, making it a complete game, En Eins Perfektewelt Anastasis, is said to be the complete edition of the second game, to accomodate with the celebration of the game's second version release 10th anniversary. The first arcade release was on System Board Y2 with the second one released on Nesica X Live 11 years ago. However, because of the delay for quality improvements, the game was released recently this year.

The game had a location test last year and when it was shown in action, its presentation still resembles the previous releases and future arcade games are released on the arcade systems of the generations later than the Taito Type X2's generation. Speaking of the Type X2, the OS running it had completely ended support but the original Nesica X Live service is still on-going to this day and it's strange to see one more major game update arriving to that platform way too late. The last game update to be released on that platform was Blazblue Central Fiction 2.0, the same update that is available on consoles, PC, and Nesica X Live 2 for the arcades.

Unlike the prequel, En Eins Perfektewelt never had a console/PC release at all. There may be rumors of a PC release but I don't want to speculate about it. Some of the articles about the updated game, En Eins Perfektewelt Anastasis, have inaccurate information about the arcade platform it's released on but some of the official tweets from certain Japanese arcade centers will prove otherwise.

Pokemon Scarlet/Violet's Launch Controversy

For a modern family-friendly game like Pokemon Scarlet/Violet on Switch, a game being plagued with bugs and technical issues including inappropriate looking ones is unacceptable. As the latest game in the main series, it has tons of ambitious features like sending out your Pokemon to attack whatever wild Pokemon in range without needing to encounter one yourself, making things look real-time as opposed to traditional turn-based battle, having your own Pokemon to follow you in your adventure, organizing a picnic, riding the extraordinary Pokemon like Miraidon for instance and the presentation of Pokemon battle being more modern than before. There's no screen transition effect like the previous Pokemon games used to have when encountering a wild Pokemon or challenging a trainer/gym leader for instance but I don't know if that effect still exists or not in Pokemon Scarlet/Violet. Unfortunately, that kind of ambition for bringing Pokemon to later generation had already posed a bigger game development challenge for Game Freak.

Game Freak and Nintendo were already aware of the situation and looking forward to fix the bugs and technical issues in the game via future patches while adding additional features. Despite the game's messy launch, the amount of copies sold was ridiculously huge. Certain fans already demanded a refund because of such technical issues. The issues ranged from low-res textures, plagued graphical details, frame rate drops in certain areas, invisible objects, character bone motions looking awkward and one Pokemon that appears and clips through a character on a relative spot it's not supposed to land on.

In my opinion, there's no excuse for a modern family-friendly game on Nintendo consoles with 3D graphics to be plagued with bugs and technical issues as those can ruin the fun. Since the serious mistake from Game Freak, Nintendo and Pokemon Company occurred and Tommy of Intellivision had an insulting remark on Switch on the forum at the time, his shills being proud of this mistake happening can essentially mean that fans of Nintendo consoles and games including Pokemon franchise were more displeased over that mistake than they were over the previous controversies Nintendo caused.

Pac-Man World Re-Pac - Updated Credits

A few months after the game's release, Bandai Namco and Now Production had made a patch that improved many aspects of the game such as credits, soundtrack and other stuffs that were changed. The credits part is the most important part of the update with the original team who made the game credited with True Accurate Information. Under the Sounds and Music part, it is Todd Dennis and Joey Kuras who worked on the music and sound part for the original version of the game under Tallarico Studios at the time. With this updated credit list, it can be proven that Tommy wasn't the one who composed the music for the game at all. Also, it is the first step in undoing the damage Tommy had caused in the past. The other games Tallarico Studios was involved in still have inaccurate credit information for the composer as if many websites still state that Tommy is the only composer due to him passing off others' compositions as his.

Besides the patch, there are two DLCs for the game and the Jukebox feature allows you to listen to the high quality versions of the songs in the Sound Test. The soundtrack in Re-Pac is said to be updated with high quality and uncompressed versions for free but the Jukebox remains a paid DLC.

Indeed, compliment is what I have for Bandai Namco and Now Production for a truly accurate credit information for the original team under Special Thanks category. However, this update should come with a new responsibility to keep those credits for the original team accurate and protected. The sites that wrongly claimed that Tommy Tallarico was the composer for this game should have corrected the credits in the game page once the update was out. I don't know for sure if there's some jerk-face out there who tries to make a malicious request to those sites to revert said changes or not but I think that the Special Thanks portion of the updated credits list should remain in the accurate form.

Aside from the Intellivision Amico controversies, there were other backlashes Tommy had done in the past such as giving Super Smash Bros games a low score in the most ignorant and offensive ways, and passing off other stuffs like sound effects he didn't make as his creations for instance but you can look up those stories yourself as they're beyond the scope of this blog article. His actions were not cool back then and the on-going controversies surrounding the Amico had already tarnished the Intellivision brand and his reputation further.

TRDR Pocket 2 controversy

It's like the manufacturers of TRDR Pocket followed Soulja Boy's shady footsteps and that kind of footstep is what only losers follow. There are two reasons why the TRDR Pocket 2 is as controversial as the first one:

1. False advertising
2. The console is as scammy as the first one even if Soulja Boy is not involved

The design is more or less the same and who wants to play games on this thing? For advanced games like TPS or FPS games, it is still problematic for both TRDR Pocket 1 and 2 as they have a lack of trigger/shoulder buttons. It's even worse if there's no controller support at all for those games. The inclusion of 4G is somewhat a retarded idea for an Android device that is a portable game console. About the false advertising for the console I mentioned earlier, the console is said to have AI-related features which can be made dangerous due to how much of a scam the console is even if Soulja Boy is not involved.

This pretty much angered gamers even more despite the fact that Soulja Boy is not involved this time in which the lessons given to learn didn't mean anything to the manufacturers of TRDR Pocket 2. They downplay and don't bother to learn those lessons and try to brainwash people with AI related features that try to "teach them any social skills and stuffs" with that TRDR Pocket 2 console. Why learn something from TRDR Pocket 2 console when you can learn a couple of things from modern games' interesting concepts and cutscenes? The TRDR Pocket 2 console isn't going to change your life in a good way and you're not going to make friends with it. Gamers are more interested in highly popular games normally and they discuss what goes on in those games.

A smartphone//tablet running Android has a better screen than TRDR Pocket 1 & 2 consoles and is attachable to whatever external gaming peripheral. Such peripheral may or may not be like the Switch or Wii U console in terms of design but it's a better gaming experience that way for advanced looking mobile games. For other portable Android gaming devices, they have a better design than TRDR Pocket 1 & 2 but that's a different story.

In the end, TRDR Pocket 2 is a scam with bullshit features just like the original TRDR Pocket. It's not worth your time and money, and your mobile device is already more capable for mobile gaming in the first place.

Splatoon 3 Virtual YouTuber Livestream Controversy

Splatoon 3 seems to be a hit on Nintendo Switch as it is as fun as the previous Splatoon games but there happens to be one Virtual YouTuber-related controversy that crossed the line. Nintendo wasn't happy about that controversy that occurred this month that they took actions against several members of a group I don't know of. The members' channels were terminated and the policy of taking screenshots or making videos of Nintendo games was changed as a result. At least, said members of that group whose channels were affected later apologized for their indecent acts.

What those members of a Virtual YouTuber group I don't know of did was green-screening something disturbing on the opponents' ink and covering that ink with their own team's in the game. Whether it's a new way or another way, it's still inexcusable enough that it caused a controversy. Sure, the Switch has a couple of mature-rated games that are also released on other game platforms but most of the first-party games from Nintendo are mainly family-friendly or teen-related games and Splatoon series is said to be family-friendly. However, in this case, the incident that occurred recently had gone too far and I'm reminded of another gaming controversy that happened two years ago in which the game's writer had come up with disturbing Pokemon and Harry Potter related tmaterials prior to working on some indie game. She realized her mistake and apologized but what cannot be scrapped is the consequences when such gaming controversy occurs. At least, it's better to realize the mistakes than to keep defending something extremely disturbing.

There are other Virtual YouTuber-related controversies I knew of like a group of trolls spamming the live chat with disturbing spam messages that caused many Virtual YouTubers' channels to be terminated, an AI software where fan arts of whatever Virtual YouTuber can be produced that may or may not cause some confusion on whether those artworks are actually produced using that tool or not, etc. The former was already bothersome like it's obstructive to business with the latter about fan arts generated using the AI software in a disturbing way being more concerning.