After announcing at the beginning of July that several older titles would lose online features and DLC on September 1st, Ubisoft recently moved the deadline back one month to October 1st. The full announcement and updated listing of titles follows:
Last month, we shared an update about decommissioning the online services of some of Ubisoft’s older games on 1 September 2022, and today we have a small update on where things are at.
Decommissioning online services for older games is something we do not take lightly, but it is also a necessity as the technology that drove those services becomes obsolete. Over the last month, our teams have been hard at work exploring what is possible to reduce disruption.
As a result, we moved the decommission date from 1 September 2022 to 1 October 2022, and the single-player downloadable content (DLC) of several games on PC – Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Assassin’s Creed III (2012 release), Far Cry 3 and Splinter Cell Blacklist – will be available to download and keep before that date.
If you own these games on PC, activate your DLC before the decommissioning on 1 October 2022 to continue playing it. There will be no impact to the same single-player DLC on consoles, and you will continue to be able to download and play them after 1 October 2022. You can find out more in an update from the Assassin’s Creed team.
More, there is still an active game team working on Anno at Ubisoft Mainz, and a taskforce was dedicated to deploying an update to Anno 2070 that will upgrade the game and replace its old online services, allowing players to enjoy its online features into the future.The below titles will be added to our list of decommissioned online services on 1 October 2022. Please note that Space Junkies for PC (HTC VIVE, Oculus) will be decomissioned on 1 September 2022 as planned. Below you will find a detailed breakdown for the effects of this new round of decommissions per platform.
Ubisoft Support Announcement
| Game name | Platform | Changes to functionality |
| Assassin’s Creed II | PC PlayStation 3 | You will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features. |
| Assassin’s Creed 3 (2012 Release) Remastered version of the game is not affected | PC | You will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features. Additionally, the installation and access for the following downloadable content (DLC) and unlockable contentent (ULC) will be unavailable: Benedict Arnold The Battle Hardened Pack The Hidden Secrets Pack The Tyranny of King Washington Ubisoft Connect rewards |
| PlayStation 3 Wii U Xbox 360 | You will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features. | |
| Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood | PC | You will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features. Additionally, the installation and access for the following DLC and ULC will be unavailable: Animus 1.0 Animus 2.0 Animus 3.0 The Da Vinci Disappearance Ubisoft Connect rewards |
| PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 | You will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features. | |
| Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD | PC | You will be unable to link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features. Additionally, the Ubisoft Connect rewards will be unavailable. |
| Assassin’s Creed Revelations | PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 | You will be unable to play multiplayer or use online features. |
| Driver San Francisco | PC | You will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features. Additionally, the installation and access to DLC will be unavailable. |
| PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 | You will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features. | |
| Far Cry 3 (2012 Release) Remastered version of the game is not affected | PC | You will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features. Additionally, the installation and access for the following DLC and ULC will be unavailable: Hunter Pack Lost Expeditions Monkey Business Predator Warrior’s Pack Ubisoft Connect rewards |
| PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 | You will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features. | |
| Ghost Recon Future Soldier | PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 | The multiplayer for the game will be unavailable. To play the solo campaign, you will have to set your console into offline mode. |
| Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands | PC | You will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features. Additionally, the access to the following ULC will be unavailable: Malik costume Sand Wraith Survival Mode Map |
| Rayman Legends | PlayStation 3 Wii U Xbox 360 | You will be unable to link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features. |
| Silent Hunter 5 | PC | You will be unable to link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features. Additionally, the installation and access to the following DLC will be unavailable: Allied Ships U-Boats |
| Space Junkies | PC (HTC VIVE, Oculus) | As a multiplayer only title, you will be unable to play the game going forward. |
| Splinter Cell: Blacklist | PC | You will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features. |
| PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 | You will be unable to link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features. | |
| ZombiU | Wii U | You will be unable to link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features. |
I’ve updated the date on the Watch List calendar and will have a page up on the site for Space Junkies later. Thanks to NeedeeYork for pointing out the news.