If you're still playing Rainbow Six: Vegas or Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 online, we're afraid your time will be up at some point later this year. The online servers associated with the classic PlayStation 3 games will be turned off in 2021, meaning you can no longer access their multiplayer offerings. The single player portion will remain playable, and the same goes for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. That title just isn't remembered quite as fondly. Ubisoft hasn't revealed exactly when the games will go offline though, which is the problem we're facing here. It could be tomorrow, it could be in six months.
The announcement was spotted by eagle-eyed ResetEra users, and confirms that "multiplayer online services for the title will be shut down but the solo features will remain available". Player stat services will also be shut down and in-game news services stripped. Furthermore, any unlocked content is headed for the trash. So, there you have it. Another two classic PS3 titles will no longer be playable online. At least you can get tactical in their single player stories? Not really a worthy replacement, if we do say so ourselves.
Do you have fond memories of playing the Rainbow Six: Vegas games online? Share them in the comments below.
[source resetera.com, via purexbox.com]
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Oh no, I saw the picture and hoped they were coming to PS4. Oh well.
Bad sony news in a nutshell
https://youtu.be/eT3BFzSD6YY
Yeah i saw the image before the headline and was like oh ***** my wish was coming true . But then the story was alot more depressing.
I like RSS but *****, ubisoft needs to stop making every game so multiplayer focused. If it's not multiplayer it's open world. Back in the day I could confidently say they were one of the best publishers of games . Now sure I still enjoy there games but every time I start a new one I can't help but think how much better it would have been if maybe the story was alittle more contained .
What's worth checking out is what rainbow six was gojng to be before it turned into seige . https://youtu.be/CCQysh2Ci0c
There is a little documentary video on you tube that talkes about what happend . If your a fan of the franchise its worth checking out
PC Peak Online players last 24 hrs
Rainbow Six Siege - 99,101 Players
Rainbow Six Vegas - 13 Players (yes, 13!!!)
Rainbow Six Vegas 2 - 46 players
PC players moved on to RS: Siege ages ago (Console players probably moved on to something else also)
12 PC games on the list, I guess now we can complain Ubisoft does not care about old PC games (most not playing) also 🙄🙃
Out of left field:
Will/could anything come out of the petition being signed, wanting a days gone sequel? With the petition, is sony forced to cave in?
@PhhhCough Petitions rarely work. I wouldn't count on it. Either way, I wouldn't write off a Days Gone sequel entirely. Maybe in the future we will still see a sequel or prequel of sorts. One never knows.
Vegas 2 was sooo good!
@Otherbarry I was so looking forward to that R6 game before it got cancelled.
I enjoyed R6 Seige, but it didn’t have anything to do with R6. Ubisoft just started churning out generic, dumbed down open world games that don’t really have much to do with their predecessors.
I’m sure Tom Clancy would be rolling in his grave at what they’ve done to his name.
I’d love a new Rainbow Six or Splinter Cell game but don’t have any faith in Ubisoft making anything but a soul less open world turd with RPG elements designed around microtransactions & no relevance to the previous elements that made their predecessors great.
Used to love playing this game..never went online with it anyway. As long as you can play it offline anyway, it doesn't really matter, does it?
The problem is going to be with games that heavily rely on online co op or support to play them, like gt sport and hitman.
@Agramonte I literally signed up to tell you sir are full of *****. Taking things out of context comparing an active zoom zoom "tactical shooter" with a timeless classic. Battlefield 2 for example is still active after 16 years, (and I bet you aren't even that old) and I get to play in full servers every weekend. But yeah of course there are still bootlickers like you who support anything your beloved company do, hell even Ubisoft and Sony took a massive sh*t down your throat you'd still try to make them look in a positive light.
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