Ubisoft says Steam games like Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD will remain playable despite warning

theverge.com:

Multiple Ubisoft games on Steam “will not be accessible” after September 1st, according to notices on the games’ Steam pages. But based on a statement from Ubisoft, the situation isn’t as bad as that message would make it seem.

If you want to see an example of the new notice, check out the Steam page for Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD. It has two:

Last week, Ubisoft announced that it would be shutting down multiplayer for more than a dozen games, also on September 1st, and four games on that list have the “will not be accessible” notice. The notice appears to warn players that their purchases won’t be playable at all. But confusingly, current owners will actually be able to access affected games, according to Ubisoft.

“As stated in our support article, only DLCs and online features will be affected by the upcoming decommissioning,” Ubisoft senior corporate communications manager Jessica Roache said in a statement to The Verge. “Current owners of those games will still be able to access, play, or redownload them. 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.”

I asked specifically if this means that people who own the games with the “will not be accessible” message will be able to access, play, or redownload them, and Roache confirmed that would be the case.

As of this writing, all but one of the PC games mentioned in Ubisoft’s support article that I could find on Steam have a notice of some kind.

Here are the games with the no longer for sale notice and the “will not be accessible” notice:

Some games have a notice saying that