Subj : Ubisoft is stopping online services for 10 titles, including seve
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Tue Oct 31 2023 10:30:05

Ubisoft is stopping online services for 10 titles, including several 
Assassin's Creed games

Date:
Tue, 31 Oct 2023 10:10:07 +0000

Description:
Ubisoft is ending online services for various titles, including  Assassin's 
Creed 2, Brotherhood, and Liberation.

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Ubisoft has announced the decommissioning of online services for several 
older games for January 2024, many of which are Assassin's Creed titles. 

Unfortunately, the list of titles set to be taken off the air includes iconic 
games such as Assassin's Creed 2 , Assassin's Creed Brotherhood , and 
Assassin's Creed Revelations . While more recent additions to this old series 
will remain untouched, such as Assassin's Creed Mirage , it's still sad to 
see these iconic games go under. 

The Assassin's Creed series aren't the only games on the chopping board. 
There's also Ghost Recon Future Soldier , Splinter Cell: Conviction , and 
R.U.S.E , which will be taken offline in the not-too-distant future. 

With all of these games, players will no longer be able to use multiplayer 
modes, link Ubisoft accounts in-game, or use any other online features. In 
addition to this, any Ubisoft Connect rewards will be made unavailable. 

While it's sad to see all these games begin to die a slow death, in reality, 
many of these titles are incredibly old and on last-gen platforms such as 
Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. In an article posted on Ubisoft's homepage , the 
publisher talks more about what it means to decommission so many games. 
"Decommissioning the online services forolder gamesis something we do not 
take lightly. However, it is also necessary as the technology behind these 
services becomes outdated." 

This isn't the first time Ubisoft has cut off online services for older 
games. Last July, the publisher announced that 15 games were getting 
deactivated. This included Far Cry 3, Splinter Cell: Blacklist , and Rayman 
Legends . The only game that was spared was the city-building and economic 
simulator game Anno 2070 . However, the devs promised to "dedicate some of 
[its] development resources to work on upgrading Anno 2070 's aged online 
services infrastructure to a new system". 

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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/gaming/consoles-pc/ubisoft-is-stopping-online-servic
es-for-10-titles-including-several-assassins-creed-games


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