Ubisoft disabling online service for multiple older games, which will make DLC unavailable

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Ubisoft is shutting off online services for a number of games, including Splinter Cell Blacklist. This will include being unable to access DLC in the future. A patch that adds the content so that people can play it offline would make a lot of sense, but this is Ubisoft we're talking about so doubt that will happen.

Full list of games here.

Game namePlatformChanges to functionality

Anno 2070		PC
You will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features.
Assassin's Creed II
PC
PlayStation 3		You will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features.
Assassin's Creed 3 (2012 Release)*PC
You will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features.

Additionally, the installation and access to downloadable content (DLC) will be unavailable.

PlayStation 3
Wii U
Xbox 360
You will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features.
Assassin's Creed BrotherhoodPC
You will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features.

Additionally, the installation and access to DLC will be unavailable.
PlayStation 3
Xbox 360
You will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features.
Assassin's Creed Liberation HDPC
You will be unable to link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features.

Additionally, the installation and access to DLC will be unavailable.
Assassin's Creed Revelations
PlayStation 3
Xbox 360
You will be unable to play multiplayer or use online features.
Driver San FranciscoPC
You will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features.

Additionally, the installation and access to DLC will be unavailable.

PlayStation 3
Xbox 360
You will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features.
Far Cry 3 (2012 Release)*PC
You will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features.

Additionally, the installation and access to DLC will be unavailable.
PlayStation 3
Xbox 360
You will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features.
Ghost Recon Future SoldierPlayStation 3
Xbox 360
The multiplayer for the game will be unavailable.

To play the solo campaign, you will have to set your console into offline mode.
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten SandsPC
You will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features.

Additionally, the installation and access to DLC will be unavailable.
Rayman Legends
PlayStation 3
Wii U
Xbox 360
You will be unable to link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features.
Silent Hunter 5PC
You will be unable to link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features.

Additionally, the installation and access to DLC will be unavailable.
Space JunkiesPC (HTC VIVE, Oculus)
As a multiplayer only title, you will be unable to play the game going forward.
Splinter Cell: BlacklistPC
You will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features.

PlayStation 3
Xbox 360
You will be unable to link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features.
ZombiUWii U
You will be unable to link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features.

September 1 is when these games will loose their online features.
 
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uOpt said:
Losing multiplayer when it was a release feature is a jerk move.
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My main issue is that it seems like some games are loosing single player content. If they upgrade all Far Cry 3 and Assassin Creed 3 owners to the remastered editions that would be good, and what they should do if they are loosing DLC access.

I know Far Cry 6 as an example requires an online connection for DLC in single player. I assume that is the case with at least a few of these games. Which is unacceptable.
 
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Welcome to you own nothing and will like it...

with the state of online content and DLC, wonder if anyone would try a class action, you paid for a product and service, but now are no longer allowed access to said product?

Wonder how well worded the fine print is on this to protect Ubisoft
 
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Fifliffl said:
Buggy but fun.. SH4 is great.. SH3 is still my favorite though.. oh the memories.
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I like fleet boats though, type vii is a turd with no air conditioning and less fuel and torpedoes. Plus there were hordes of reasonable people on the ships the Nazis sank, but when you're fighting the japs I think it would go down easier since they were mostly all bug eyed crazy by the time the mk14 torpedo problems were resolved. The fleet boats destroyed the Japanese merchant marine faster than it could be rebuilt meanwhile the uboats only prolonged the war a little. This had the effect of prolonging the time the Soviets had to rape and pillage their way across eastern Germany. Plus you can sink carriers bigger than an escort carrier in no. 4.
 
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Lose*

Sorry, pet peeve of mine ;). I see it a lot lately; it's like an epidemic.
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Dude, its an epidemic of gargantuan proportions. 2/3 of the posts I see on social media use the word loose instead of lose and vice/versa. When people use them constantly within a paragraph or across multiple posts/comments you know they just plain dont understand they are completely different words.
 
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t1337duder said:
It's convenient for Ubisoft - so why not?
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Because now Ubisoft has opened up the possibility for lawsuits since they're now taking away features of a product you bought. It also opens up problems for their IP since others will operate their own servers to host games which would break their IP. Since Ubisoft doesn't supply this feature then they do risk losing their copyright ownership. For the benefit of saving some hard disk space on their servers and electricity they write off on their taxes? This is most likely done to discourage people from playing older and cheaper games. Don't let me catch you playing some new shit games when there are classics that can be had for cheap. I assume there's going to be some new Assassin's Creed game since a lot of games on that list are Assassin's Creed.
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Tengis said:
Dude, its an epidemic of gargantuan proportions. 2/3 of the posts I see on social media use the word loose instead of lose and vice/versa. When people use them constantly within a paragraph or across multiple posts/comments you know they just plain dont understand they are completely different words.
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I've loost count of the number of times that the two words are confused with one another. My advise is to losen your standards. It's not worth loosing sleep over.
 
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t1337duder said:
It's convenient for Ubisoft - so why not?
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Because Ubisoft practices Corporatism, removes paid/launch features of games that should have been patched so that said features would last forever, and once again screws over paying customers.
Hope they get crushed in court over this, because as stated above, this opens the floodgates for other large and megacorps to continue doing this, and this type of behavior is beyond unacceptable, especially when no EOL to said services was given.

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Welcome to you own nothing and will like it...
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"Liking it" will be DLC, and hopefully they won't remove that DLC down the road... :whistle:
 
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duronboy said:
We lost the war when enough people accepted having to ask permission from the internet to even install the game, much less launch the game every time. You wanna bitch about the DLC, you lost the plot already.
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At this point if you want the DLC you paid for you gotta pirate it. Assuming the game was popular enough you should be able to find a torrent and download it. If you want the multiplayer then you better pray it was a good enough experience that people wanted to make a server for it. Demon Souls for PS3 has had working mulitplayer thanks to the community, but Demon Souls was popular where Anno 2070 I cannot even say. One thing to remember is that piracy is your friend as it's the only method we know of that will preserve your games.

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I don't understand the correlation of the subtitles, there. Is it still piracy if you did pay for it at some point? One did give their money, and they're opening themselves up to a new security vulnerability, and piracy is sometimes more work to get going. And you're sort of at the whim of the packer as far as what you get. I own morrowind, but I did download a version someone made with like every mod you can imagine automatically installed. In this particular instance it was really easy to get going compared to the steam version, but the unpacker was opening up all sorts of command prompts and what not. Presumably to install the mods. Presumably. But anyway, one of the mods made everything super sexy, even the kagoutis. Ok not really the kagouties, but you know what I mean. The lizards, the cats, all the NPCs were supermodels. It was weird.
 
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DukenukemX said:
At this point if you want the DLC you paid for you gotta pirate it. Assuming the game was popular enough you should be able to find a torrent and download it. If you want the multiplayer then you better pray it was a good enough experience that people wanted to make a server for it. Demon Souls for PS3 has had working mulitplayer thanks to the community, but Demon Souls was popular where Anno 2070 I cannot even say. One thing to remember is that piracy is your friend as it's the only method we know of that will preserve your games.

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Is it piracy if you bought it?
 
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duronboy said:
I don't understand the correlation of the subtitles, there. Is it still piracy if you did pay for it at some point?
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Technically yes because as far as I'm aware of if you download the rom to a game cartridge you own then that's illegal. It's stupid but so is the copyright system.
One did give their money, and they're opening themselves up to a new security vulnerability, and piracy is sometimes more work to get going.
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Oh yea? Get the DLC you paid for legally now from Ubisoft and tell me how much work you'd have to do?
And you're sort of at the whim of the packer as far as what you get. I own morrowind, but I did download a version someone made with like every mod you can imagine automatically installed. In this particular instance it was really easy to get going compared to the steam version, but the unpacker was opening up all sorts of command prompts and what not. Presumably to install the mods. Presumably. But anyway, one of the mods made everything super sexy, even the kagoutis. Ok not really the kagouties, but you know what I mean. The lizards, the cats, all the NPCs were supermodels. It was weird.
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Sounds like my Skyrim minus the nudes. You can be scared and lose the very products you bought, or more likely wait for Ubitsoft to release some of these games as a remaster. You know like how Rockstar did with Grand Theft Auto, where everyone hated it. Personally this isn't a problem for me because I use Linux now and I'm immune to Windows viruses.
 
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DukenukemX said:
You know like how Rockstar did with Grand Theft Auto, where everyone hated it.
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Was it the same Rockstar, though? I thought they handed that off to a goddamned mobile game "studio"

Anyway, there weren't any nudes in that morrowind install, but it was close lol.
 
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Was it the same Rockstar, though? I thought they handed that off to a goddamned mobile game "studio"
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Even the remake of Mass Effect series was terrible. You could achieve the same graphics with mods and better compatibility since they were DX9 games. Also, some butt scenes were... avoided. We saw the same thing with Dark Souls Remaster where they just wanted an excuse to get you to buy their good games.

I think some studios are aware that their newer games aren't as good as their older games. Just cause something is newer doesn't mean it's better. Just look at the mess that is Mass Effect Andromeda. It's even worse now that the industry is back into multiplayer game mode. The game industry likes to cycle between multiplayer games and single player. They're trying their hand in multiplayer because the amount of possible return is high while investment is low. Then they realize people eventually get sick of those games and go back to single player.
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Anyway, there weren't any nudes in that morrowind install, but it was close lol.
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That guy forgot to go to lovers lab.
 
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Red Falcon said:
Because Ubisoft practices Corporatism, removes paid/launch features of games that should have been patched so that said features would last forever, and once again screws over paying customers.
Hope they get crushed in court over this, because as stated above, this opens the floodgates for other large and megacorps to continue doing this, and this type of behavior is beyond unacceptable, especially when no EOL to said services was given.


"Liking it" will be DLC, and hopefully they won't remove that DLC down the road... :whistle:
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I'm speaking from their perspective - you know, the one that's dictating the status quo?

Hoping, whining, and moaning, is as good as pissing in the wind. What have PC gamers actually done to combat any of this corporatism? Are any of you pretending to be concerned with this actually collectivizing politcally and trying to actually cause political action? Or are you just sitting in the sidelines and observing what's happening as it's happening? These are rhetorical questions but my point is that you get the corporations you deserve, bud. PC gamers will just eternally bitch about the state of things and slip on VR while not only the world goes to hell in front of their eyes, but their entertainment/escapism is getting hell of a lot worse as well.
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Because now Ubisoft has opened up the possibility for lawsuits since they're now taking away features of a product you bought. It also opens up problems for their IP since others will operate their own servers to host games which would break their IP. Since Ubisoft doesn't supply this feature then they do risk losing their copyright ownership. For the benefit of saving some hard disk space on their servers and electricity they write off on their taxes? This is most likely done to discourage people from playing older and cheaper games. Don't let me catch you playing some new shit games when there are classics that can be had for cheap. I assume there's going to be some new Assassin's Creed game since a lot of games on that list are Assassin's Creed.
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Clearly they weighed out the odds and they don't feel legally threatened by this. Why should they feel threatened? Who's going to sue them? You? I'd love to see the class action slap-on-the-wrist lawsuit.
 
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Hoping, whining, and moaning, is as good as pissing in the wind. What have PC gamers actually done to combat any of this corporatism? Are any of you pretending to be concerned with this actually collectivizing politcally and trying to actually cause political action? Or are you just sitting in the sidelines and observing what's happening as it's happening? These are rhetorical questions but my point is that you get the corporations you deserve, bud. PC gamers will just eternally bitch about the state of things and slip on VR while not only the world goes to hell in front of their eyes, but their entertainment/escapism is getting hell of a lot worse as well.
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I couldn't agree more.
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sfsuphysics said:
At least in the US, it is against DMCA (I think that's the one at least) to circumvent any sort of copy protection methods. So yeah it's "piracy" even if you buy something but use the pirated version.
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I forgot who this government is for and by, thanks for the reminder :)
 
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t1337duder said:
Clearly they weighed out the odds and they don't feel legally threatened by this. Why should they feel threatened? Who's going to sue them? You? I'd love to see the class action slap-on-the-wrist lawsuit.
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Probably nobody is gonna sue them. Most of the games that lost multiplayer are mainly single player games that had multiplayer added to appeal to the suits at the top. The multiplayer only games that lost multiplayer weren't actively played by anyone. Games like Rayman and ZombiU are actively played but since the only function you lose is linking accounts then nobody is gonna notice. That still doesn't mean that a hungry lawyer could be looking at this and start a lawsuit. That also doesn't mean that Ubisoft may have made a mistake and open up problems like private servers. Last time a corporation thought that people were dumb, they ended up losing millions of dollars. Sony tried this with PS3 and Vita and they quickly turned everything back on.
 
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t1337duder said:
I'm speaking from their perspective - you know, the one that's dictating the status quo?

Hoping, whining, and moaning, is as good as pissing in the wind. What have PC gamers actually done to combat any of this corporatism? Are any of you pretending to be concerned with this actually collectivizing politcally and trying to actually cause political action? Or are you just sitting in the sidelines and observing what's happening as it's happening? These are rhetorical questions but my point is that you get the corporations you deserve, bud. PC gamers will just eternally bitch about the state of things and slip on VR while not only the world goes to hell in front of their eyes, but their entertainment/escapism is getting hell of a lot worse as well.


Clearly they weighed out the odds and they don't feel legally threatened by this. Why should they feel threatened? Who's going to sue them? You? I'd love to see the class action slap-on-the-wrist lawsuit.
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I got pissed off at Ubisoft's handling of things back with Ravenshield. I've bought almost none of their games ever since then. If enough people did the same they would go out of business.
 
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t1337duder said:
I'm speaking from their perspective - you know, the one that's dictating the status quo?

Hoping, whining, and moaning, is as good as pissing in the wind. What have PC gamers actually done to combat any of this corporatism? Are any of you pretending to be concerned with this actually collectivizing politcally and trying to actually cause political action? Or are you just sitting in the sidelines and observing what's happening as it's happening? These are rhetorical questions but my point is that you get the corporations you deserve, bud. PC gamers will just eternally bitch about the state of things and slip on VR while not only the world goes to hell in front of their eyes, but their entertainment/escapism is getting hell of a lot worse as well.


Clearly they weighed out the odds and they don't feel legally threatened by this. Why should they feel threatened? Who's going to sue them? You? I'd love to see the class action slap-on-the-wrist lawsuit.
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This is why I hate those who choose to Pre-Order games. Here, take my money based on nothing but rendered scenes and hope's and dreams. And then most complain about how crap-tastic the game is on launch whaaa whaaa whaaa.... then they go do it again so they can brag on launch day they got to play the game!

So instead, stop pre-ordering games for stupid prices to get useless extras and make companies work to earn your money by releasing a solid product on launch day.
 
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MrGuvernment said:
This is why I hate those who choose to Pre-Order games. Here, take my money based on nothing but rendered scenes and hope's and dreams. And then most complain about how crap-tastic the game is on launch whaaa whaaa whaaa.... then they go do it again so they can brag on launch day they got to play the game!

So instead, stop pre-ordering games for stupid prices to get useless extras and make companies work to earn your money by releasing a solid product on launch day.
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A lot of us do it because pre-order prices are cheaper than launch prices. Of course this ends up working badly often times. I only pre-order very few games, typically multiplayer games.
 
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A lot of us do it because pre-order prices are cheaper than launch prices. Of course this ends up working badly often times. I only pre-order very few games, typically multiplayer games.
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Ya, that is why they suck you in, and most time pre-orders are most expensive because they try to include a ton of useless crap with it. If you want a cheaper game, wait 3 months after release
 
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Flogger23m said:
A lot of us do it because pre-order prices are cheaper than launch prices. Of course this ends up working badly often times. I only pre-order very few games, typically multiplayer games.
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I pre-order everything, even games I don't want. It's the only way we send the "don't preorder!" pinworms back into the anus they crawled out of - they're supposed to be nocturnal.

Pre-ordering also sends the developer the reassurance "the trailer looked good, take all the time you need and dont feel rushed - the community has your back. We're family now, we're in this together ❤️".
 
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As of last night and this morning I was unable to connect to download patches. It'd let me log in to play FC:ND but saves weren't synchronized. Odd that this is happening shortly after patches were installed a few days ago.
 
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I pre-order everything, even games I don't want. It's the only way we send the "don't preorder!" pinworms back into the anus they crawled out of - they're supposed to be nocturnal.

Pre-ordering also sends the developer the reassurance "the trailer looked good, take all the time you need and dont feel rushed - the community has your back. We're family now, we're in this together ❤️".
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Uh-huh. Hey, I've got this bridge in New York City for sale, if you'd like to preorder it.
 
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