Ubisoft has been in the industry ever since 1986, with the jump to the seventh generation of consoles in 2007 seeing the French company establishing its own major IPs like Assassin’s Creed. It managed to spawn several sequels and spin-offs to form the open-world mega franchise that many know today. With the PS3 and Xbox 360 now no longer being supported, many games that were released on those consoles will be shutting down its online services.

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This closure of the online services will mean that players will no longer be able to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game, or use other online features. In addition to this, players will no longer be able to access or install DLC if the game had any released in its lifetime. If a game that had a campaign mode required an online connection, such as Ghost Recon Future Soldier, the console needs to be put into offline mode in order to play.

This shutdown of services will only be affecting the original releases, so games that had remasters such as Far Cry 3 and Assassin’s Creed 3 will not be affected by this closure. According to the blog post, this shut down was in order to help focus the company’s resources on some of Ubisoft’s newer or more popular titles. All of these services will be closed on September 1, 2022, with the following games impacted:

Anno 2070 Assassin’s Creed 2 Assassin’s Creed 3 (2012 Release) Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Assassin’s Creed Revelations Driver San Francisco Far Cry 3 (2012 Release) Ghost Recon Future Soldier Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Rayman Legends Silent Hunter 5 Space Junkies Splinter Cell: Blacklist ZombiU

While many fans expected Ubisoft to close the multiplayer services, this announcement also resulted in a lot of negativity from many fans. These fans took to Twitter to respond to Ubisoft’s decision to lock any DLC that fans had paid for and restricting access to it when the services are shut down.

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