{"id":31880,"date":"2012-02-02T16:59:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T14:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=31880"},"modified":"2012-02-02T17:01:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T15:01:51","slug":"ubisoft-moves-servers-games-go-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/31880-ubisoft-moves-servers-games-go-offline","title":{"rendered":"PSA: Ubisoft moving servers, games going offline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In news that is absolutely impossible not to have a good chuckle at, <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11845-Ubisoft\">Ubisoft<\/a> will be transitioning the hosting of many of its online services from a third-party data centre to a new facility starting on the 7th of February 2012.<\/p>\n<p>This means that, because it&#8217;s Ubisoft, and because Ubisoft has the foresight of a man sleeping on an active railway line, a number of their <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/21037-PC-Gaming\">PC <\/a>(Windows &amp; <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/21055-Mac-Gaming\">Mac<\/a>) games will be offline for the duration.<\/p>\n<p>These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assassin&#8217;s Creed (Mac)<\/li>\n<li>Tom Clancy&#8217;s H.A.W.X. 2 (PC)<\/li>\n<li>Might &amp; Magic: Heroes VI (PC)<\/li>\n<li>Splinter Cell Conviction (Mac)<\/li>\n<li>The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom (PC)<\/li>\n<li>The Settlers (Mac)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Uplay and all Ubisoft websites will be down, except for the official Ubisoft forums and the Ubisoft Consumer Service.<\/p>\n<p>Ubisoft reassures players that PC games will remain available for everyone who has already connected at least once.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult not to feel sorry for what&#8217;s left of Ubisoft&#8217;s PC market.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Ubisoft\" href=\"http:\/\/static2.cdn.ubi.com\/transition\/details\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ubisoft<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A slight lack of foresight, perhaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":31881,"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":[2,3],"tags":[31,807,2236,733],"class_list":["post-31880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-active","tag-pc-gaming","tag-server-issues","tag-ubisoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31880","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\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31882,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31880\/revisions\/31882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}