If you don't spend much time in Yara, you might get an email from Ubisoft telling you off: "Surely you can do better than this." It comes marked with the amount of time played while Anton Castillo mocks you. People aren't too pleased given that games are increasingly "designed to maximize engagement" as is.
"They email and hassle you if you dare to stop playing them," managing editor at GameIndustry.biz Brendan Sinclair said while sharing the email on Twitter. "Normalize letting people stop playing a game if they're not enjoying it."
Maybe you don't have time to finish Far Cry 6 in a week or maybe you're taking it slow, letting the fascist regime of Yara settle in. It could be that you just don't like it - whatever the reason, it's okay to put a game down and not rush it. Hell, it's okay to leave it for good. If it doesn't click, it doesn't click - it's that simple. However, Ubisoft is employing a slightly more aggressive marketing strategy to try and get players to pump up their playtime.
Ubisoft also sends you emails if you do play - you're damned either way. Other players report being sent their kill counts and checkpoints captured, clogging up their inbox with statistics. At least it isn't insulting them for not playing, eh?
Nonetheless, you can unsubscribe from the emails at any time, blocking Ubisoft from telling you off for how you choose to spend your spare time.