I found a secret e-mail from Ubisoft......
"Because of the predictions found in the Mayan calendar, it is our belief that we will not have sufficient time to patch the game before the end of the world. We are therefore cancelling the game.
This is unfortunate, as we had just started to understand Uber Gruber's anger at us, having discovered that he's a Pompey fan. He has therefore already experienced the end of the world."