Ubisoft is stopping online services for 10 titles, including several Assassin's Creed games | Time to say goodbye

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• query@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

  Yet much older games are still playable without functionality loss.

  You don’t need upgrades to online services. You need to stop locking down games.

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  • GeneralVincent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    incredibly old

    Xbox 360 or PlayStation 4

    😭

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But then how will we get people to play our shittier new games??

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Heck, I haven’t checked in a couple of years, but I think the Call of Duty servers for the Wii were still up back in 2020…

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• Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m not too upset about companies shutting down their online infrastructure for a game after 10 years…

  What I am upset about is how many games nowadays don’t allow for direct connection or self-hosting which renders all multiplayer functionality moot unless someone can hack it in.

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  • WallEx@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think there should be laws forcing companies to publish the server software, if and when they don’t want to run the servers themselves (absolutely understandably as you said)

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• Kissaki@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

  So Singleplayer will continue to work?

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  • kadu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes

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    • zerofk@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In theory, yes. However last time I tried Assassin’s Creed 1 (I think about 3 years ago now), it crashed at startup trying to reach a service that no longer existed. I had to disconnect the network, start the game, then reconnect. After this it worked fine.

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• Destraight@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why does assassin creed 2 need internet? It’s a single player game

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• Visstix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Good. Get rid of that ubisoft account crap.

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• Gutless2615@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You don’t say 🏴‍☠️

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