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Ubisoft's Authentication Servers Go Down

Posted by kdawson on from the single-point-of-well-you-know dept.

ZuchinniOne writes "With Ubisoft's fantastically awful new DRM you must be online and logged in to their servers to play the games you buy. Not only was this DRM broken the very first day it was released, but now their authentication servers have failed so absolutely that no-one who legally bought their games can play them. 'At around 8am GMT, people began to complain in the Assassin's Creed 2 forum that they couldn't access the Ubisoft servers and were unable to play their games.' One can only hope that this utter failure will help to stem the tide of bad DRM."

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  1. The DRM is working. by tomhudson · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    ... it IS called Digital Rights Management. And we all know that "Management" is a code word for "Those who screw you over the most". And "Rights" really means "Restrictions."

    Digital Restrictions by Those Who Screw You Over The Most", or DRbTWSYOTM just doesn't have the same cachet.

  2. Re:Well, duh. by bmo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This has been all over the net. If you didn't see it, you were living under a rock. All the gaming sites covered it. It was on reddit, digg, boing boing, 4chan, etc, ad nauseam.

    Similarly with the shutdown of Microsoft's "Plays For Sure" servers.

    It's just that people *choose* to ignore the warnings and say "Oh, it can't be that bad." Then they find out to their consternation that the people who told them (us geeks) were right.

    No excuses. You got burned by DRM? Tough. Wake up.

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    BMO

  3. Re:French Engineers by imakemusic · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    True, true. If you want stupid, useless shit it's Americans you want to talk to.

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