Ubisoft postpones "decommissioning" of older online titles until October
Following July’s announcement that Ubisoft would be “decommissioning” the online portions of some of its older titles on 1st September, the publisher has said it’s postponing the move to 1st October in many cases, and that Anno 2070 will now escape unscathed.
Ubisoft originally announced that 15 titles that would be affected by the move: Anno 2070, Assassin’s Creed 2, Assassin’s Creed 3, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD, Assassin’s Creed Revelations, Driver San Francisco, Far Cry 3, Ghost Recon Future Soldier, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, Rayman Legends, Silent Hunter 5, Space Junkies, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, and ZombiU.
The precise effects of decommissioning depend on the game, but ranged from the removal of multiplayer modes, online features, and DLC to being unable to access the game at all.
In an new update to its original post, however, Ubisoft has now announced some changes to its initial plans, following investigations into “what is possible to reduce disruption”. This begins with the decision to push the decommisioning process back to 1st October for all games except the online-only Space Junkies for PC, which will cease to function from tomorrow, 1st September, as originally planned.