Ubisoft DRM servers down; Europeans can't play Assassin's Creed 2

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Ubisoft DRM servers down; Europeans can't play Assassin's Creed 2

Posted Mar 7th 2010 4:30PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Action, Simulation

We had a feeling this might happen and what do you know? We were right. While the PC port of Assassin's Creed 2 is not yet available here in the US, Ubisoft's SINGLE PLAYER ONLY open world action game is available in Europe. And it looks like Ubisoft's DRM servers, which were supposed to protect against the game being pirated, have instead kept legit consumers from playing the game across the pond.

As detailed by very angry gamers in their posts for Ubisoft's message boards for the game, those DRM servers have crashed, keeping at least some folks from playing Assassin's Creed 2 while others have experienced long periods to log into the game. The same issues seem to also be affecting another game, the WWII sub sim Silent Hunter 5. A Ubisoft community manager has put in his two cents on the message boards, admitting that the "extended downtime and lengthy login issues are unacceptable" but so far there's no word on when the DRM servers will be back up and running.

Ubisoft, we are not one to put in editorial comments in a news post but here's an exception: Your DRM set up for your current and future PC games is the thing that's truly unacceptable and we hope this incident will finally convince you to dump it, now.

[Via Joystiq]

Tags: assassins-creed-2, silent-hunter-5, ubisoft, ubisoft-drm

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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I give this new "fancy" DRM a year tops. Ubisoft is slowly becoming the new Activision, so even then I'm kinda doubting that they will abandon their new way of alienating PC gamers that quickly.Posted at 5:06PM on Mar 7th 2010 by that guy rom

y'know, I actually hope this is due to an intentional DoS attack. Now, like the Penny Arcade guys say, I am not against people getting paid for their work, by any means. But the sooner Ubi realizes that this will *not* harm pirates in any way -- *only* legitimate consumers -- the better. If somebody gives them a nudge in that direction, to get them there faster, I condone it.Posted at 5:16PM on Mar 7th 2010 by James

A year? Wow rom, that's pessimistic!

I've going to be optimistic to counter that, and say within 2-3 months, several more occurrences of this happen, forcing them to dump the DRM scheme all together.Posted at 5:35PM on Mar 7th 2010 by devilsei

@ John Callaham: Amen, good sir. Amen.Posted at 6:40PM on Mar 7th 2010 by Nevadarain72

obisoft is real a big shit i work a fucking year to bey this game and now i cant playPosted at 3:40AM on Mar 10th 2010 by oliveira luisfan

SCREW YOU UBISOFT I HAVE BOUGHT AND PAID FOR AC2 AND I CANT PLAY IM GOING TO COME AND STAB U IN UR SLEEP(WATCH OUT A$$HOLES) oh and im just going to pirate ur other games with this DRM(SH*T)

p.s. go die in a hole
p.s.s SCREW U Posted at 1:34PM on Mar 9th 2010 by Dean

I just cant believe this, i did buy the game saturday!
THE WHITE EDITION!!!
And now i cant F****** play!!!!!!????
I hope that they fix this quick, im sure they wil lose many costumers now.
Bastards..Posted at 11:47AM on Mar 16th 2010 by AngryAC2Fan

you are taking the piss with these dont worry ubisoft it goging back to the shop i will never buy you game again basterdPosted at 12:36PM on Mar 24th 2010 by sellh