Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD (and 3 other games) won't be accessable after September 1st 2022

Guess that is the potato answer? But yes, am personally missing that one as well, never got any Ubisoft game either so for me none of the options work either.

I knew I forgot something, but yeah at least there is potato.

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According to this, this isn't platform related so Ubisoft Connect users will also lose those games, yet there isn't any information on their website.

Also they put those warnings after the Steam sale ends. This is just low.

Nice anno devs ! 😊

That's a nice development!

I hope they manage to go DRM-free way instead of keeping the servers up a little more.

Yeah, that's very scammy of them. Patching the DRM shouldn't be so hard, I mean pirates can do it.

And it seems Ubisoft also like piracy :)
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/vwchjq/this_seems_like_poor_phrasing_from_ubisoft/

But noone bought these game as service. Its not microsoft game pass. We bought licenses, for games, and for DLC.
Ubisoft wants to turn off online services - ok, although it's still stupid because if nobody uses them, they don't cost anything and everything can run on one physical machine together with the latest Ubisoft games.
While removing access to dlc (not multiplayer but single player), such as Washington trilogy in AC3 is theft.
Ubisoft is a European company, I have already filed a complaint with my national consumer ombudsman, I also intend to submit a notification to the prosecutor's office after September 1 cause no one is going to take away my property that I paid for.

Didn't check them before this incident so I cannot say if something changed there. But isn't at least Prince of Persia older than Uplay? Though they don't have a Steam release date on the page, it is possible that those games released on Steam way later. I mean there are some games on Steam that don't come with Uplay, like Far Cry 2. At least they're safe I think.

For some titles the Steam page remains, for some it doesn't. I guess depends on the publisher. However even the Steam page remains, it doesn't show up when you directly search on Steam. Though they can still be found through search engines.

It seems for some titles they updated the explanation. It still the same for the said titles though.
Yeah, we'll see how things will end up in September.

They should've known that checking DLC same as the multiplayer would be a bad idea. They must have thought these days will come and servers will shut down. At least these kinda make sense even though it's anti-consumer. Removing a single-player game entirely doesn't make sense. Pirates give a better service than Ubi here.

Assasin's Creed Brotherhood's page says
'Notice: DLC Within this product as well as online elements and features will become unavailable, though the base game will remain accessible as of Sept 1st, 2022 '
Assassin's Creed Liberation's page says
'Notice: Please note this title will not be accessible following September 1st, 2022 '

So, sadly it doesn't seem like a misunderstanding.

The only misunderstanding here is likely the one about games being forcibly removed from libraries, they should stay in existing owners' libraries, and just get delisted from stores, thus becoming unavailable to potential new buyers.

As to whether they'll still be playable or become digital doorstoppers, I 'd be inclined to believe they wouldn't go as far down as actually bringing down single player games, considering the backlash they got years ago due to always online DRM.

The only one we can be sure will die is the multiplayer-only one, Space Junkies.

As for DLCs, it'd be very simple to just remove the authentication requirements, or even add the content to the base games...
...but they obviously don't want to.

Unless the PR hit is so hard it makes them have a change of mind, but I highly doubt it, seeing how their stance on NFTs didn't even budge after being roasted online.

I hope they don't pull this off. Though I'm pretty sure Ubisoft covered this in their EULA so I have no idea about its juristic state, but these should be illegal. If they cannot maintain it as a "service", they have to make it DRM-free so things like these shouldn't happen in the first place.

I think selling the game in summer sale just before revoking the entire game shows that they don't care about their customers. As for DLCs, they could've just unlock all the DLC for everyone instead of removing them from every owner.

I hope EU does something about this, otherwise it will be a very bad precedent.

Yeah, just checked and saw they changed the notices. At least they won't remove the entire game now it seems, though removing DLCs are still a problem and anti-consumer.

Guess we'll see the real thing after September 1st and if this is not just a parry.

The removing the game thing was only affecting Steam though they "fixed" the notices now so it's only multiplayer and DLCs. This isn't platform related. Since they will shut down the servers, Steam, Uplay all affected from this. The geniuses made the DLC authentication through servers so once they are gone, it won't be possible for them to authenticate who bought the DLCs, so they pull from everyone. Instead, they could've just made DLC all for free. They won't sell them, they cannot authenticate them. Why not remove the DRM right?

Probably the only possible way left to play those missions is pirating, which is ridiculous.

The Anno devs seem to have said they are working to make the DLC work after the servers are shut off, here is hoping AC devs do the same.

The problem with generic Ubisoft games is it's always the same formula. If you let AC III to be someone's first AC game, they will probably love it, because it's a nice formula. I feel like they seek the new generation of gamers every year since this formula gets old pretty quick. This is the reason I found AC IV Black Flag kinda boring despite it being a very good game. Because I already played 5 other games with the same formula before. They need to see this.

Well thank you for putting in some efforts to test it regardless. No guarantees can be made but it gives some hope for the process.

Of course it is. Just look at the pirated AC3 version which includes all dlc's and doesn't require online mode.
So ubisoft has no arguments that it "must" steal single player dlc from us because they turn off online mode.

So that shows something can be done unofficially which is good for us. I still hope for them to recover DLC content one way or another but this unofficial possibility is kinda promising.

I feel the same, I think they weren't expected this kind of reaction and backfired.

That's the exact gameplan for all of these companies. Do one horrible thing, reverse course due to 'fan feedback', then introduce something slightly less horrible later which gets normalized because 'it could be worse'.

I think this is the post you mentioned? Yeah, the linked article says only multiplayer and DLC for these games too. Though I don't know, if their English is bad (it shouldn't be for a company that big, that's the other case), they could've just copy-pasted from other game pages, why was these games different? Maybe this version is not shady but I still cannot trust them. Especially after taken down single-player DLCs.

I guess this depends on the people. Since this is not the first anti-consumer thing they did, I don't trust them for a longer time already. I only bought Ubisoft games either on Steam or GOG and I didn't buy from them after they left Steam. Probably a lot of people here didn't buy Ubisoft games after they left Steam as well. Some people don't really care about platforms or DRM and they just want to play their games, and I understand that. But things like this affect everyone, even if you don't care (maybe especially if you don't care).

I still crave Anno 1800 (I really love Anno games) and I thought about buying it on Uplay, however once they introduced season pass bullshittery on there too, that was the first and the last time I thought about buying something on Uplay. If Anno 1800 ever hit GOG, I'll go buy it (but I highly doubt since the latest one there is Anno 1404).

Black Flag are you sure? There haven't been mentions of it getting disabled anywhere.

Do you have any links perhaps? I couldn't find anything regarding this, unless it's too new. I only know about AC IV is there is no cloud save of any form. And you can easily lose your progress if you're playing on Steam due to Uplay issues.