Much to the disappointment of many gamers, a lot of older titles are facing shutdowns of their servers and online support. In the past year, Halo: Reach and Halo 3 saw shutdowns that led to some heartbroken Halo fans unable to play those games online. More recently, it was announced that popular MMO TERA was shutting down after nearly a decade since it was released. Now, Ubisoft is confirming that 90 games will be having their online support dropped in one way or another.
The list of 90 games was displayed in an official post by Ubisoft. The gaming publisher's extensive collection of games included Assassin's Creed 2 and the other original games centered around Ezio, Far Cry Blood Dragon, Rainbow Six Vegas, many of the Rabbids games and Rayman Legends. To many, a few of these titles come up in the discussions of Ubisoft's best games, and even with some like Assassin's Creed 2 being primarily single-player, the loss of online features will still be noticeable.
The removal of online features will not only stop players from being able to hop on multiplayer in games like Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, it will also stop players being able to unlock certain skins and items in these games. For the Ubisoft Connect services as well, players will no longer be able to earn Units by completing Challenges in game. Rewards can still be unlocked, but they seem rather pointless as they won't be received in-game. For games like Rainbow Six Vegas that relied heavily on multiplayer elements, this change will leave them mostly unplayable.
While this news does seem like Ubisoft has completely abandoned 90 games, this is not the case. As stated, players will be able to still make the most of single-player features in the Ubisoft classics, and these changes are only affecting certain platforms. Games like Rayman Legends for example will only lose its support for PC, and many older Just Dance titles will lose their functionality for the Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii platforms. For gamers on older consoles then, this news will hit hard though players with a current or next-gen machine, their Ubisoft titles will remain unaffected.
This news follows recent reports of Ubisoft developing a Fortnite-inspired battle royale named Project Q. While there were some fears that Project Q would feature NFTs or Ubisoft Quartz, the gaming publisher recently quelled those concerns, claiming that there are no immediate plans for the controversial feature.
Source: Ubisoft