Ubisoft is shutting down online services for 91 games, old games or versions for old platforms.
This has become a recurring problem since the advent of games with an online component. When the publisher decides to disconnect the cable, the game becomes unavailable in whole or in part. Whether you want to play and/or how much you’ve invested, once the servers go down, there’s nothing you can do about it. At least 91 games have been disabled by Ubisoft today.
Ubisoft disables online services from 91 games
You will be disappointed if you are going to play some legacy Ubisoft games online. Indeed, Kotaku reports that the studio has just shut down the online services of 91 games in its catalog. Many of them were really very old or are versions for old platforms. For example, you were not going to play Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood on the OnLive service, which is long gone. That being said, there are some games that you can still play on your current machine, if only for the sake of going back to a particular title.
The first two Far Cry games, for example, lose their online presence on PC this way. Blood Dragon will no longer connect to PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. Just Dance fans will have to make do with newer versions: no wonder Ubisoft removed support for PS3, Wii, Wii U and Xbox 360 from Just Dance 2018 or earlier, some PS4 players and Xbox One may be unhappy that they can no longer fully enjoy Just Dance 2014 or 2015.
Old games or versions for old platforms
Other important titles? We can cite, for example, Beyond Good & Evil, the first Ghost Recon of that name, several Rainbow Six games, old Settlers games, and some versions of Splinter Cell, including Chaos Theory and Conviction. Games that used Ubisoft Connect will no longer earn you points and you will no longer be able to unlock content on any platform or access it on PC.
Ubisoft thinks it can’t hurt. And this is not some business practice to encourage the purchase of new games. After all, the studio has just disabled Rainbow Six Lockdown for PS2, GameCube, and the original Xbox. But if you have had this or that console with this or that game for a small portion of nostalgia from time to time, you have reason to mourn. ..