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[Update: “We don’t take the decision to retire services for older Ubisoft games lightly,” says Ubisoft in a statement to multiple news outlets. “Our teams are currently assessing all available options for players who will be impacted when these games’ online services are decommissioned on September 1st, 2022.”]

Ubisoft has quietly eliminated 2014 launch Murderer’s Creed Liberation HD from the Steam platform, rendering the title inaccessible for buy. Moreover, the Steam web page can also be apparently suggesting that, as of September 1, gamers who’ve beforehand bought the spin-off title will now not be capable to play it.

Murderer’s Creed Liberation HD is a remastered version of the 2012 launch Murderer’s Creed Liberation, which is itself a spin-off of Murderer’s Creed III. Set in opposition to the backdrop of Louisana within the 18th century, the title is especially noteworthy for being the one sport within the collection to characteristic a Black lady protagonist — Aveline de Grandpré — who battles in opposition to American slavers in addition to the collection’ main antagonist, the Templar Knights.

Ubisoft is but to supply an evidence for the title’s removing, although it’s speculated by followers that it could be for technical causes. Ubisoft video games are additionally famous for his or her sturdy DRM and connectivity licenses, given life by providers such because the writer’s Uplay service. Whereas Murderer’s Creed Liberation HD is hardly on the prime of the vast majority of gamers’ “must-own” lists in 2022, followers are clearly involved that its removing may set a precedent for extra titles to be pulled from accounts sooner or later — citing final week’s information that Sony could be eradicating paid film content material from sure PlayStation accounts.

The Murderer’s Creed group has taken to the Steam boards and Reddit to voice their issues to the corporate, though it has additionally been found that Liberation could be launched from inside Murderer’s Creed III correct. So this might probably be a case of the spin-off title being eliminated as a singular entity from the Steam retailer, that may proceed to dwell on as in-game DLC for the principle launch.

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