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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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#6031365 Posted on: 07/06/2022 11:18 AM
losing access to the online companety i can understand but losing access to DLC you bought?
Imagine what would happen if Steam or ANY online store account says they shutting down? image worlds rage over lose of the actual game people bought, Less the day that happen we all have access to too 10gbit connections and and 500-1000TB storage at realistic prices are thing then i see mass riots happen.
There is reason why i get console games on disc still they still make them on disc so i get them that way, sadly DLC dont tend to be on disc less it was GOTY edition with everything included and i dont remeber last time PC games actual had physical discs
I remeber no such time, then again I dont think ubisoft every really made game i cared about
https://www.destructoid.com/cd-projekt-red-is-now-the-second-largest-european-game-studio-only-behind-ubisoft/#:~:text=Right%20now%2C%20they're%20just,European%20game%20studio%20right%20now.
losing access to the online companety i can understand but losing access to DLC you bought?
Imagine what would happen if Steam or ANY online store account says they shutting down? image worlds rage over lose of the actual game people bought, Less the day that happen we all have access to too 10gbit connections and and 500-1000TB storage at realistic prices are thing then i see mass riots happen.
There is reason why i get console games on disc still they still make them on disc so i get them that way, sadly DLC dont tend to be on disc less it was GOTY edition with everything included and i dont remeber last time PC games actual had physical discs
I remeber no such time, then again I dont think ubisoft every really made game i cared about
CD Projekt Red is now the second largest European game studio, only behind Ubisoft
https://www.destructoid.com/cd-projekt-red-is-now-the-second-largest-european-game-studio-only-behind-ubisoft/#:~:text=Right%20now%2C%20they're%20just,European%20game%20studio%20right%20now.
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#6031385 Posted on: 07/06/2022 12:03 PM
I believe the last game I really played that had any involvement with Ubisoft was XIII. But even with that, I hear of Ubisoft a lot.
CDPR I only know exists with The Witcher.
I remeber no such time, then again I dont think ubisoft every really made game i cared about
I believe the last game I really played that had any involvement with Ubisoft was XIII. But even with that, I hear of Ubisoft a lot.
CDPR I only know exists with The Witcher.
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#6031446 Posted on: 07/06/2022 02:55 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 hells 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.
12125
A blight regardless of which industry the company is in.
*remembers gamespy and immediately has ptsd*
At least games from that era generally still have functional MP
.
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 hells 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.
12125
A blight regardless of which industry the company is in.
*remembers gamespy and immediately has ptsd*
At least games from that era generally still have functional MP
.
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#6031463 Posted on: 07/06/2022 03:41 PM
The concept aside, I don't play any of the 15 games mentioned nor do I believe I'd have any interest in the online mode of any of them.
Does anyone actually play these games today? Space Junkies is the most recent one if I understand right, and I never heard of it.
Yes, they are old games and probably not much people play nowadays. But I can say that I played Assassins Creed 1 two years ago and the game was lauched in 2007. I bought it many years ago but I was always delaying playing it.
But, in Steam some of this games are still selling today... like Speace Junkies, and there are no any kind of warning even.
The concept aside, I don't play any of the 15 games mentioned nor do I believe I'd have any interest in the online mode of any of them.
Does anyone actually play these games today? Space Junkies is the most recent one if I understand right, and I never heard of it.
Yes, they are old games and probably not much people play nowadays. But I can say that I played Assassins Creed 1 two years ago and the game was lauched in 2007. I bought it many years ago but I was always delaying playing it.
But, in Steam some of this games are still selling today... like Speace Junkies, and there are no any kind of warning even.
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Maintain server isn't too expensive for sure, BUT there is a huges need of cash right now...
Ubisoft latest game were not big hits at all (GR breackpoint, AC Valhala, Farcry 6 are a total "do not buy" for fan )
And also historical owner family want to take distance with Ubisoft...
So there is no little money save for Ubisoft right now...
Most of these companies probably use GoogleCloud/Azure/AWS, keeping a pod up with a server used for a few unpopular games should be relatively nothing. The fewer the people that play them, the cheaper the servers would be. It's of course a business decision, but the DLC decision is just bizzare. They might as well have given them out for free, same for the games. It would create positive buzz around their franchises.