Valve’s Steam platform is often seen as an industry model for handling delisted games, which remain in the game library of the purchased player and can be downloaded and played normally. Valve’s example may be broken, however: Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD , a spinoff game in Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed franchise, will be pulled from the Steam store and will be inaccessible to players who have already purchased it from September 1 . Prior to this, Ubisoft announced that it will shut down online services for 15 games on September 1. In addition to the online feature stopping working, players will not be able to access the single-player DLC of purchased games. Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD is on the list, but the problem is that it doesn’t have a multiplayer mode, it’s a standalone single-player game. Ubisoft’s movesparked controversy .
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