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Ubisoft is cutting off online gameplay for 15 games, players will no longer have access to purchased DLC
Ubisoft has stated that the online services for 15 games will be decommissioned on September 1. Users will no longer be able to play the multiplayer and co-op modes in these games, linking accounts and online features will no longer work, and, worst of all, users will lose access to DLC they purchased.
These games' online components will cease to function on PC, PlayStation 3, Wii U, and Xbox 360. The remastered editions of Assassin's Creed 3 and Far Cry 3 will continue to function normally, but you will need to purchase them if you only own the original versions. While the most of these games are over a decade old, Space Junkies is a remarkable exception, having only been released three years ago. It's a multiplayer-only VR game that Ubisoft is still selling (for as much as $20) despite the fact that it will become entirely unplayable in two months.
- Anno 2070
- Assassin's Creed 2
- Assassin's Creed 3
- Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
- Assassin's Creed Liberation HD
- Assassin's Creed Revelations
- Driver San Francisco
- Far Cry 3
- Ghost Recon Future Soldier
- Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
- Rayman Legends
- Silent Hunter 5
- Space Junkies
- Splinter Cell: Blacklist
- ZombiU
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#6031228 Posted on: 07/05/2022 07:44 PM
This is why I don't buy new games, you don't actually own anything.
Having no option to make your own servers and locking everything is a practice that started over 10 years ago, and it sucks.
Now a game is disconnected literally dies, there's no way someone could pick up the code and reboot it.
This is why I don't buy new games, you don't actually own anything.
Having no option to make your own servers and locking everything is a practice that started over 10 years ago, and it sucks.
Now a game is disconnected literally dies, there's no way someone could pick up the code and reboot it.
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#6031249 Posted on: 07/05/2022 08:55 PM
This, is what happens when you allow games companies to list on the stock exchange, and the upper management have about as much power as a piece of dog poo on the heels of the major shareholders.
Y'see - shareholders can vote out CEO's, so, the CEO will do whatever they can to keep their job with all the perks.
This is why you have crazy headlines such as:
"BIG COMPANY ONLY MADE $100bn THIS YEAR IN PROFIT - SACKS 5,000 PEOPLE"
Share holders get a cut of the profits, so, if a company is not going to make as much money as they did the year before in profit, they will sack lots of people, or, reduce overhead in one way or another, to maintain the high profit margins
I really think I am one of just a handful of people on the planet that understand this: COMPANIES CAN SACK PEOPLE FOR LOW PROFITS - EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE MAKING A PROFIT.
Let me reword that again for you...A company is profitable...they are making more money that it costs to make the money they are making...their revenue is higher than the cost to run the company...yet, they still are allowed BY LAW to sack people, or, make any structural changes to their company even if they are making billions and trillions in profit, so long as it is not as much profit as they made last year or last quarter.
The stock exchanges all over the world have this written into law, that you WILL take ALL necessary actions to increase the profits of a company...no matter what.
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This, is what happens when you allow games companies to list on the stock exchange, and the upper management have about as much power as a piece of dog poo on the heels of the major shareholders.
Y'see - shareholders can vote out CEO's, so, the CEO will do whatever they can to keep their job with all the perks.
This is why you have crazy headlines such as:
"BIG COMPANY ONLY MADE $100bn THIS YEAR IN PROFIT - SACKS 5,000 PEOPLE"
Share holders get a cut of the profits, so, if a company is not going to make as much money as they did the year before in profit, they will sack lots of people, or, reduce overhead in one way or another, to maintain the high profit margins
I really think I am one of just a handful of people on the planet that understand this: COMPANIES CAN SACK PEOPLE FOR LOW PROFITS - EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE MAKING A PROFIT.
Let me reword that again for you...A company is profitable...they are making more money that it costs to make the money they are making...their revenue is higher than the cost to run the company...yet, they still are allowed BY LAW to sack people, or, make any structural changes to their company even if they are making billions and trillions in profit, so long as it is not as much profit as they made last year or last quarter.
The stock exchanges all over the world have this written into law, that you WILL take ALL necessary actions to increase the profits of a company...no matter what.
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#6031252 Posted on: 07/05/2022 09:06 PM
Ubisoft latest game were not big hits at all (GR breackpoint, AC Valhala, Farcry 6 are a total "do not buy" for fan )
couldn't agree more
gr wildlands was fantastic, you can just get that instead of breakpoint it's a better game
I did enjoy valhalla, it's an excellent game up until it becomes dreadfully repetitive. still, I'd reccommend it on sale.
fc series is a copy of a copy, I encourage people to get 3 and 5 and be done with it, you're not missing anything.
Ubisoft latest game were not big hits at all (GR breackpoint, AC Valhala, Farcry 6 are a total "do not buy" for fan )
couldn't agree more
gr wildlands was fantastic, you can just get that instead of breakpoint it's a better game
I did enjoy valhalla, it's an excellent game up until it becomes dreadfully repetitive. still, I'd reccommend it on sale.
fc series is a copy of a copy, I encourage people to get 3 and 5 and be done with it, you're not missing anything.
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#6031318 Posted on: 07/06/2022 01:44 AM
Plently of pirated games get updates. And usually can download just the update pieces and add them.
Its not 2010 anymore.
I have God of War with newest update with FSR 2.0. I refuse to buy the game until the arseholed Dev's add 32:9 to the game.
I only downloaded it to try since no demo.
Problem with piracy is the lack of updates.
Plently of pirated games get updates. And usually can download just the update pieces and add them.
Its not 2010 anymore.
I have God of War with newest update with FSR 2.0. I refuse to buy the game until the arseholed Dev's add 32:9 to the game.
I only downloaded it to try since no demo.
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They joys of being screwed by games companies on pc. You all saw this coming years ago but just went with it instead of boycotting. C'est la vie i'll stick with linux