Ubisoft Ending Online Services For Three Xbox 360 Titles Early Next Year

Companies keep talking about game preservation then they go and shutdown servers. So hypocritical.

I guess severs cost money and time maintaining things. If the games are bringing in no money then I guess it’s shutdown time.
I mean we are taking Xbox 360 generation.

Never really cared for Assassin's Creed multiplayer mode they were interesting fun little past time but they were never good in longevity but shutting down the server for splinter cell conviction on Xbox 360? That is a step Ubisoft has gone too far even today people still play conviction since Ubisoft refuse to make a new splinter cell game I guess maintaining active servers cost money and yet these publishers talk about they care about game preservation haha yeah right that is a boatload of lies

@themightyant Could they not downgrade the server sizes somehow, reducing cost & keeping the servers up?

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A Windows server in the data center cloud costs about $3,000 USD to run per year. Serving up the game may cost around $100,000 per year with small player counts.

I am sure after making $100's of millions on these games they could've set aside some of that profit on an ongoing basis to keep servers up.

I can understand shutting down the servers for a 15-year-old game that people have mostly stopped playing.

The bigger, and much less excusable, issue is when games effectively become inaccessible, like if:

• The single-player is locked behind unnecessary server checks
• A now-defunct online store was the only way to buy the game

Though I can also see it being frustrating (to a lesser extent) if there's no option for local multiplayer, or if the company is really aggressive towards people who are trying to recreate the servers.