I didn't think Liberation had any dlc's. I'd understand ending online support as in taking the multiplayer down as at a certain point the resources and costs wouldn't be worth it, but making it so that people are unable to download dlc they paid for is not acceptable in the least.
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DLCs in Ubisoft games have a heavy DRM checks to verify that you own them. Once they pull the backbone servers for those older games which are causing any online services to go away. They are also no longer verifying DLCS on each and every time the player loads up the game during certain parts of game play.
When they dropped online services for Might & Magic X – Legacy a year or two ago. The game became unplayable because they had a check at an early stage in the game if you had any DLCs paid for. Since it could not do that when people got to that part of the game no one could move onto the next part of the game. Many months later they patched it fixing the issue.
While I have no idea either if Liberation had DLCs. They sure are acting like it had one with the warnings that game has over other ones losing online services.
It's nuts man. What they are doing should be considered criminal.
I’m no legal expert but it sounds like some countries' consumer protection laws might have been violated. Space Junkies for instance they admitted in their own notes that the game is multiplayer only and won’t be playable after September.
Based on the data I could find regarding prices. They discounted Space Junkies by 75% for the Steam Summer 2022 sale at least in some regions before pulling it off Steam right after.
In a speculative example.
When a company does this kind of thing it will come down to. 1. Do they think any laws they may or may not have broken even be worth going after them for? If they were charged with breaking a law how big would the fines even be?
If they end up saving $10k per year and only get slapped with a $2k fine. Many companies would see it worth the fine in saving money.
I’m not saying that is what they did. It’s just how many large companies have been cough approaching certain situations where the bottom line was more important than other things.