‘Area F2’ announces service closure following Ubisoft lawsuit

nme.com:

Ubisoft had claimed the game was a “near carbon copy” of ‘Rainbow Six: Siege’ Servers for controversial mobile game Area F2 have been taken offline just days after Ubisoft filed a lawsuit that described it as a “near carbon copy” of the company’s 2015 title, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege.

The Area F2 team announced the service closure on its website on Wednesday (May 20), explaining that it was “carrying out improvements to Area F2 in order to deliver a better experience to players”.

It added that the game might go through a “complete overhaul of the design” due to its “steep learning curve”, which led to a notable number of players abandoning the game “in less than 30 minutes”. “We are not willing to accept an experience that we cannot