{"id":2839,"date":"2022-04-26T17:30:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/ubisoft-sunsets-online-services-for-dozens-of-legacy-games\/"},"modified":"2022-04-26T17:30:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:30:20","slug":"ubisoft-sunsets-online-services-for-dozens-of-legacy-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/ubisoft-sunsets-online-services-for-dozens-of-legacy-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft sunsets online services for dozens of legacy games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"source-title\">Ubisoft sunsets online services for dozens of legacy games<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-text\">\n<div>\n<p >Ubisoft is no longer offering online services to dozens of its video games. As of April 21, 90 legacy games from the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 era will no longer have online multiplayer or in-game news and statistics. Just Dance, Far Cry and Assassin&#8217;s Creed are some of the affected franchises. Ubisoft posted the announcement on its website. <\/p>\n<p >Offline gaming will still be possible for affected games. {The <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ubisoft.pxf.io\/c\/482924\/864200\/12050?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubisoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fhelp%2Farticle%2Fmultiplayer-and-online-services-availability-in-ubisoft-games%2F000064576%3FisSso%3Dtrue%26refreshStatus%3DnoLoginData&amp;sharedid=polygon.com\" has-subtag=\"true\"> stated that these changes had also prevented unlockable content such as skins or maps from the affected games. Unlockable content will still be available for console owners unless the save file is reset. Windows PC users will not be able to access this content &#8220;even though it was redeemed before .&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>.&#8221;<br \/>\n{<\/p>\n<p >The <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ubisoft.pxf.io\/c\/482924\/864200\/12050?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubisoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fhelp%2Farticle%2Fmultiplayer-and-online-services-availability-in-ubisoft-games%2F000064576%3FisSso%3Dtrue%26refreshStatus%3DnoLoginData&amp;sharedid=polygon.com\" has-subtag=\"true\" data-cdata=\"{\" rewritten_url=\"\">full list of impacted titles<\/a> can be found on Ubisoft&#8217;s website.|<\/p>\n<p > The <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ubisoft.pxf.io\/c\/482924\/864200\/12050?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubisoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fhelp%2Farticle%2Fmultiplayer-and-online-services-availability-in-ubisoft-games%2F000064576%3FisSso%3Dtrue%26refreshStatus%3DnoLoginData&amp;sharedid=polygon.com\" has-subtag=\"true\" data-cdata=\"\" rewritten_url=\"\">full  list of affected titles  is available on Ubisoft\u2019s website. Most of these games have been around for a while and are sometimes on obsolete platforms such as OnLive, a cloud gaming platform. Some classic titles like <em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed 2<\/em> will no longer have online functionality, but also have newer remastered versions. Other notable titles include <em>Far Cry <\/em>and<em> Far Cry 2<\/em> for Windows PC as well as <em>Rainbow Six Vegas <\/em>and<em> Rainbow Six Vegas 2<\/em>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-image\">https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/YRTlZcIlxF7F8IIVxMcs7d0gkWg=\/0x50:1280&#215;720\/fit-in\/1200&#215;630\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/23416836\/ss_dd6a4d319cda32c24a4e16a0a62908e82673f458.jpg<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-link\">https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23042565\/ubisoft-online-services-just-dance-far-cry-splinter-cell<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft sunsets online services for dozens of legacy games Ubisoft is no longer offering online services to dozens of its video games. As of April 21, 90 legacy games from the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 era will no longer have online multiplayer or in-game news and statistics. Just Dance, Far Cry and Assassin&#8217;s Creed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}