Publisher is financially incentivized to kill the servers, maintenance, and bugfix time for this title since single purchase licenses and long term online infrastructure requirements are financially incompatible.

There is a whole single-player game in there that doesn't need online connectivity.

Yeah. It's bizzare and insanely cheap of Ubisoft to not at least patch the game to work single player offline for people that already bought the game.

I'm pretty sure my older Vita cartridge of Liberation will keep on trucking too...

Ah, but if you're playing offline, obviously you're a filthy pirate.

Yeah you should be playing AC: Black Flag then

Legit masterpiece, btw. I wish there was a version with the entire world.