Watch Dogs Legion will no longer be updated
Watch Dogs Legion will no longer be updated, Ubisoft has said, and the game's current multiplayer season will be its last.
In a blog post flagged via social media on Friday evening, Ubisoft said that the game's 5.6 patch — released four months ago in September 2021 — was actually its final update.
The game's fifth and final multiplayer season, which began at the weekend, will now be followed by repeats of seasons three, four and five on a cycle until servers are eventually switched off.
Set in a bleak post-Brexit London, Watch Dogs Legion arrived for PC, PlayStation and Xbox in October 2020 to lukewarm reviews. It has since received a selection of extra modes and characters (including one which is a neat Assassin's Creed crossover), a story expansion starring Watch Dogs 1 protagonist Aiden Pearce, plus a standalone zombies experience in Watch Dogs: Legion of the Dead.
Legion hasn't lacked in post-launch support, then, but I wonder if Ubisoft had initially planned more. The official Watch Dogs Legion site has a «Year 1» tab detailing all of the above content — but it won't get a Year 2, unlike the more popular Assassin's Creed Valhalla, released around the same time.
Watch Dogs Legion creative director Clint Hocking has moved on, meanwhile, and is reportedly heading up a game team building a future Assassin's Creed project to be folded into Ubisoft's upcoming Assassin's Creed Infinity.
We wanted to express our thanks to all players of Watch Dogs: Legion. You've built the best DedSec London could have hoped for. https://t.co/FMmOUXHDBf pic.twitter.com/CKV91DhKj1
«Yes, it's fun to pootle around London,» Vikki Blake wrote in Eurogamer's Watch Dogs Legion review. «Yes, it's exciting to step past the roped-off areas and
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