Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD will remain playable on Steam, Ubisoft confirms

On Saturday, there were concerns that those who bought property may be able to commit crimes. Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD on Steam would have their access to the game removed, after it was noticed that the game’s Steam listing read that “this title will not be accessible following September 1st, 2022.”

Ubisoft confirmed that the offline component of the single-player game would still be available to owners after this date. Assassin’s Creed Liberation HDThe first publication of this game was in 2014. Ubisoft has recently announced that it will no longer be supporting online older games starting Sep. 1.

“As stated in our support article, only DLCs and online features will be affected by the upcoming decommissioning. Current owners of those games will still be able to access, play or redownload them,” Ubisoft told Polygon in an updated statement.

“Our teams are working with our partners to update this information across all storefronts and are also assessing all available options for players who will be impacted when these games’ online services are decommissioned on September 1st, 2022. It has always been our intention to do everything in our power to allow those legacy titles to remain available in the best possible conditions for players, and this is what we are working towards.”

Ubisoft periodically removes old games’ online support from its catalogue. In most cases, this means the games’ online and multiplayer features will be turned off, while campaigns and other single-player features will remain available.

Others games that are affected by this round of plug pulling include Driver San Francisco, Ghost Recon Future Soldier, Rayman Legends, Anno 2270Original versions and Far Cry 3 Assassin’s Creed 2. The support for remasters of these games will not be discontinued. Assassin’s Creed Liberation — originally a 2012 PlayStation Vita release — remains available to buy as part of the 2019 Assassin’s Creed 3 Remastered package.

The Ubisoft team attempting to preserve their games past the expiration date is the Anno 2070 developers at Ubisoft Mainz, who said: “After an initial investigation, we have decided to dedicate some of our development resources to work on upgrading Anno 2070’s aged online services infrastructure to a new system, so that these features can continue to be used past the mentioned date. However, we cannot yet guarantee that we’ll be able to successfully upgrade/replace the old services as we’d like to.”

VR isn’t as lucky in 2019 Space JunkiesAs a multiplayer game, ‘Player Name:’ is being disabled completely. “You will be unable to play the game going forward,” Ubisoft said.

Online games are costly to maintain; server space and bandwidth don’t come for free, and that’s before you consider the customer support, community management, bug fixing, and game updates that guarantee a good experience for players. Unfortunately, these games are not always available.

However, single-player and offline games are another matter. Digital media skeptics warn that there is a gap between the ownership that users consider to be theirs when they purchase a title online and what these rights actually grant them.

Sony revealed recently that due to expiration of a license agreement, all people who bought hundreds of Canal Plus movies or TV shows through the PlayStation Store in Germany and Austria would be deprived of their access. These titles will be affected John Wick, Paddington And The Hunger Games.

Assassin’s Creed Liberation HDThis fate has been fortunately avoided for the moment.