BEWARE!!! Online connection required!

[Acubens]

You can expect to be able to play this game until Ubisoft decides to shut down the game exactly how they did to The Crew!

[ToxicDutch]

Originally posted by Melinda Safitri:

Originally posted by Armored Heretic:

After 10-15 years of service who cares if breakpoint shuts down and they money you gave for it long well spend.

the crew only 5 years.. and ubisoft shutdown this game..

The Crew is 10 years old, 2014 it was released.

Originally posted by Acubens:

Blablabla

Just take your loss and move on. Except you have no loss because you don't own any Ubi game. Still wondering why you go to all the Ubi forums to post something that is a decade old, and you still can't get over the fact that 99% of the people don't care if a 10y old game gets discontinued. I own the game, i don't care. You don't own the game and you care like your life is depending on it.

[Acubens]

Yes, I own plenty of UBI games. And it's the BEHAVIOUR they want to push that I'm talking about. And if this, they shutting down a 10 yo single player game get normalized, nothing will stop them to shut down a 5yo game, or less.

[Half Slav]

Originally posted by Acubens:

Yes, it was a license of a game marketed as single player. Still, in UBI website and on STEAM, it was marketed as "BUY" that translates into paying to own something not clearly specified, that at first seems to be the game. The problem is that this emphasizes the premisse that they CAN disable most of the games that require online connection for whatever reason, and remotely shut down those games, even if purely single player, exactly like Google Play and APPStore have been doing wildly and just recently receiving backlash for that... Well, I simply don't buy games from Google Play, having buying plenty that just vanished from my account. I have a jailbroken tablet full of games, just for that, to NOT pay Google Play anymore for their scummy behaviour. If this behaviour from Ubisoft prevails in other games, it will be worse for us and for them, as ppl will have to do un-legit community patches and hacks to play games offline, and in that case I probably might stop buying games.

How do you think the game would sell if they instead advertised:

BUY THE LICENSE TO PLAY THIS GAME FOR 5 YEARS: $60
+ the $200 on DLCs some ppl paid for...

Single player does not mean offline play nowdays sadly.That Term is very old and one of the reason it's always online as a singleplayer is not to be pirated. and I agree with you a 100% you just have to get a helmet and deal with it in the end eather support it or don't buy it .But nowdays most people know all UBI games need a stable internet connection to be played and what you said 99% people know it's why you got such hostile answers lol.

[ToxicDutch]

Originally posted by Acubens:

Yes, I own plenty of UBI games. And it's the BEHAVIOUR they want to push that I'm talking about. And if this, they shutting down a 10 yo single player game get normalized, nothing will stop them to shut down a 5yo game, or less.

You don't own any on Steam and the devs don't visit these forums. You should be spamming the Ubi forum instead of the Steam forum.

-> https://discussions.ubisoft.com/
EDIT: Lol they don't have a forum anymore. You can spam their discord if you please:
-> https://discord.com/invite/ubisoftofficial

The reason they are shutting down a 10y old game is because the game counts 13(!) active players. They won't shut down a 5y old game if plenty of people are still playing it. They are actively looking at what people are playing and what people are not playing. If a game has no players than there is absolutely no reason to pay for a server to stay online.

Again, you are ''shocked'' by this ''news'' but as you can read from the other comments, you are the only one that has a problem with it and nobody here on Steam is going to be able to help you.

[LdyAftermath1hand gamer]

Originally posted by Melinda Safitri:

Originally posted by レディ 余波:

every game i own eventually will go offline and the ones that DID, all went and got patched for solo play. your crying over nothing. I also took 3 secs googled crew offline. Yes a patch is made. babies cry never look for answers. and yeah every game eventually gets single mode. wahh i cant use google. gotta love github.

the crew 1 offline patch made by modders they found offline files in the crew so they can make offline patch in this game, but how about breakpoint? devs design this game for online only, and theres no offline files..

your response is what about? lol every weak minded individual that tries this is hilarious at best.
anyhoo, even breakpoint that has the ability to play alone will get offline treatment.
even my beloved Unreal tournament ( yes I'm old) has offline and lan abilities. almost every game gets treatment the list is endless of examples. use google and any old game, someone made it work even old online games like city of heroes ( yes i said I am old already) anyhoo.
don't use what about arguments. its just crazy tossing non facts into the machine works unless your job is to f things up on purpose.

[𝕮𝕺𝕾𝕸𝕺𝕾]

ToxicDutch he don't own any Ubi because its a dogwater company. R6s was their only decent game xD #Cope

[Nerv]

Originally posted by サイヤ人:

ToxicDutch he don't own any Ubi because its a dogwater company. R6s was their only decent game xD #Cope

r6s is the most disappointing game ubisoft has ever made

[Viper]

the one thing that sucks with the majority of games is they require you to be online to play.
Which is a stupid thing if you ask me. UBI soft doesn't care about its games they only care about pushing out a terrible product for the cash just as EA and SE does

[Half Slav]

Small group of steam Elitists with always complain yet most of them still own the game.Is it great no? Will you coming here and complaining about help or change how it is ? No. I think for example if I want to watch a series or a movie I should not be forced to pay for 6 platforms to watch them on.But you do if you want to watch specific series. How the world works.90% are fine how it is specially with the 3rd party launches on here.Once you set it up you never see it again.

[ToxicDutch]

Originally posted by Armored Heretic:

Small group of steam Elitists with always complain yet most of them still own the game.Is it great no? Will you coming here and complaining about help or change how it is ? No. I think for example if I want to watch a series or a movie I should not be forced to pay for 6 platforms to watch them on.But you do if you want to watch specific series. How the world works.90% are fine how it is specially with the 3rd party launches on here.Once you set it up you never see it again.

In case you didn't notice, most people complaining DON'T own the game. We can't verify if they own it on Ubi. And why would you, if you own it on Ubi, come to the Steam forum to complain instead of directly to Ubi itself?
They just look at the Store page on Steam, see that Online is required, and then proceed to the Steam forum to complain. Pretending they own the game somewhere else.

Originally posted by サイヤ人:

ToxicDutch he don't own any Ubi because its a dogwater company. R6s was their only decent game xD #Cope

Imagine calling RS6 ' decent'', talking about cope. You gave them more credit than you actually meant to give.

[zxcuicideboy!let's all love lain]

well, there's a few factors that i haven't seen no one mention:
1) with direction Ubi is heading, its unlikely there will be new ghost recon. or good ghost recon, at least. we all seen extration right?
2) unlike crew, this game can't be modded. not only its online only and as mentioned saves are full-cloud, it has anti-tamper protection on top (denuvo), so its very, very unlikely that modders will actually find a way to bypass the online requirement.
if we combine two factors above, we get that wildlands will be left the only decent ghost recon new generation game. less choice. especially in a genre that's already thin on games, open-ended sandbox tactical shooter. mgs 5 and wildlands are the only others i can mention except for breakpoint. that's not really a good thing.

[Half Slav]

Originally posted by zxcuicideboy!let's all love lain:

well, there's a few factors that i haven't seen no one mention:
1) with direction Ubi is heading, its unlikely there will be new ghost recon. or good ghost recon, at least. we all seen extration right?
2) unlike crew, this game can't be modded. not only its online only and as mentioned saves are full-cloud, it has anti-tamper protection on top (denuvo), so its very, very unlikely that modders will actually find a way to bypass the online requirement.
if we combine two factors above, we get that wildlands will be left the only decent ghost recon new generation game. less choice. especially in a genre that's already thin on games, open-ended sandbox tactical shooter. mgs 5 and wildlands are the only others i can mention except for breakpoint. that's not really a good thing.

1st Wildlands and Breakpoint are one worst ghost games ever made.It's a open world looter shooter.
2nd the games won't shut off anytime soon if they have a good player base
3rd the shut down the crew after 10 years because nobody played it,If the crew had like 1000 players every day they would not shut it down.
So long the games are played and popular they won't be shut down
Yet again the games are made online only because of the piracy nobody can play this game for free wich I understand you buy this game knowing this and deal with it or not buying games. I highly doubt in 10 years from now on you will still play this game. I got bored of it after 20 hours and doubt I will play it ever again

[ToxicDutch]

Originally posted by zxcuicideboy!let's all love lain:

well, there's a few factors that i haven't seen no one mention:
1) with direction Ubi is heading, its unlikely there will be new ghost recon. or good ghost recon, at least. we all seen extration right?
2) unlike crew, this game can't be modded. not only its online only and as mentioned saves are full-cloud, it has anti-tamper protection on top (denuvo), so its very, very unlikely that modders will actually find a way to bypass the online requirement.
if we combine two factors above, we get that wildlands will be left the only decent ghost recon new generation game. less choice. especially in a genre that's already thin on games, open-ended sandbox tactical shooter. mgs 5 and wildlands are the only others i can mention except for breakpoint. that's not really a good thing.

Nobody mentioned it because it's mostly unrelated to the complaint OP has.
And no idea where you get the idea that BP can't be modded, mods have been around since 2019.

[Kuma]

Originally posted by zxcuicideboy!let's all love lain:

well, there's a few factors that i haven't seen no one mention:
1) with direction Ubi is heading, its unlikely there will be new ghost recon. or good ghost recon, at least. we all seen extration right?
2) unlike crew, this game can't be modded. not only its online only and as mentioned saves are full-cloud, it has anti-tamper protection on top (denuvo), so its very, very unlikely that modders will actually find a way to bypass the online requirement.
if we combine two factors above, we get that wildlands will be left the only decent ghost recon new generation game. less choice. especially in a genre that's already thin on games, open-ended sandbox tactical shooter. mgs 5 and wildlands are the only others i can mention except for breakpoint. that's not really a good thing.

1)Ghost recon isn't rainbow 6, the next ghost recon game is already being worked for a while "Project Ovr or Project Over, is set to be released in 2025-2026"
2)Seems pointless to argue what ifs, even more when your reasoning is so cloudy.

[Brother Thunder]

"Games as a service" is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ when they are unwilling/unable to actually *provide* the damn service. What good is a ticket to the amusement park if the damn park is shut down so often? This is my "divorce from Ubi" game. I payed them money for *entertainment*, not for a dysfunctional pile of frustration.
At least when ppl yar-har-har it & game-breaking ♥♥♥♥♥ happens, they get what they pay for.