{"id":125784,"date":"2022-07-11T10:01:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T08:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=125784"},"modified":"2022-07-11T10:01:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T08:01:28","slug":"assassins-creed-liberation-pulled-from-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/125784-assassins-creed-liberation-pulled-from-steam","title":{"rendered":"Assassin&#8217;s Creed Liberation pulled from Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assassin&#8217;s Creed Liberation has been pulled from Steam, with its <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/260210\/Assassins_Creed_Liberation_HD\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>page<\/strong><\/a> on the site indicating it was at the request of its publisher.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the game will no longer be accessible from 1 September.<\/p>\n<p>Ubisoft previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubisoft.com\/en-gb\/help\/gameplay\/article\/decommissioning-of-online-services-september-2022\/000102396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a> that several games were being decommissioned on 1 September, so the pulling of Assassin&#8217;s Creed Liberation is not surprising &#8211; a full list of the decommissioned games can be found <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/125651-ubisoft-to-pull-online-services-for-several-older-games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While you will no longer be able to access any of the game&#8217;s multiplayer functions or purchase some of the games following 1 September it is currently assumed that those who already own copies should still be able to play the games.<\/p>\n<p>Ubisoft stated this move allowed the company to free up resources to produce new titles.<\/p>\n<p>While unfortunate, this move isn&#8217;t as severe as the pulling of movies by Sony we <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/125765-playstation-is-removing-movies-for-customers-libraries\"><strong>reported<\/strong><\/a> on last week.<\/p>\n<p>Both of these decisions do, however, highlight some of the concerns around digital ownership.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/125780-the-last-of-us-part-1-ps5-remake-isnt-a-cash-grab-according-to-developer\">The Last of Us Part 1 PS5 remake isn\u2019t a \u201ccash grab\u201d according to developer<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assassin&#8217;s Creed Liberation has been pulled from Steam and will no longer be accessible after 1 September. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":125785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681],"tags":[4708,22157,85],"class_list":["post-125784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","tag-assassins-creed-liberation","tag-delisting","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125786,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125784\/revisions\/125786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}