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Ubisoft's Authentication Servers Go Down
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."
Skid-Row will soon have a fix for this problem. This will also lessen the strain on Ubisoft's servers!
Stop supporting games with this kind of DRM
Ubisoft clearly has.
When you're afraid to download music illegally in your own home, then the terrorists have won!
MOD PARENT LEFT
Not a sentence!
My karma ran over your dogma. Never seemed more appropriate. :)
MOD PARENT LEFT
You do the hokey pokey and you mod them all around!
OK, and in case anyone wonders why Ubisoft is the young lady: ;))
Do you want to fuck them hard, maybe punish them for being a bad girl, etc?
See...?
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Great job, UBIsoft. Just as the software industry finally regained some footing in the battle against copying, you go and aim the bazooka at your (and the industry's) foot.
Do not rocket jump if you have low HP.
The good, the evil and the vacuum tubes.
MOD THE PARENT DESTRUCTOR!
No, no, you guys have it all wrong - it's MOD PARENT UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A START!
That's the only way to get infinite lives on Slashdot.
Honestly? I'm thinking of finding the customer support email for Ubisoft and writing them an email thanking them for giving a demonstration to their customers of why DRM is bad - people like me go on the forums and tell people that this shit will happen and they say "No it won't, the company wouldn't do that!" - now they know that they will. *jumps with glee*
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson
Just because your connection to Verizon is up doesn't mean their connection to some other arbitrary network is working reliably.
I use Time Warner and a cablemodem.
One day, my net connect starts getting "spotty". Connect. Disconnect. Repeat all day long. After a couple of days it goes down altogether. I put in the call. Guy comes out and looks at the cable and shows me where a squirrel had been nibbling at it. Replaces the cable bit on the pole, off he goes. Cable goes right back down again. Put in another call. Another guy shows up, twiddles something, gets a good meter reading, and bails. Repeat this for about three months. Last guy finally fixes the problem - a router box upstream was foobaring my entire block's connection. Nobody on my block was getting internet, cable, anything through TWC. Dozens of customers complaining daily and it took them three months to finally figure out "gee the whole block is down, let's go look at the router for this block."
So a few weeks later, a lady calls me. A customer survey drone wanting to know about my "experience". I tell her how frustrating the whole thing was. How does she conclude the call?
By asking if I'd consider a package deal to have my telephone run through their modem too.
This entire planet is mad, you know.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
From Ubisoft concerning the announcement of the crack:
Please know that this rumor is false and while a pirated version may seem to be complete at start up, any gamer who downloads and plays a cracked version will find that their version is not complete.
So, apparently, this inability to play is the feature that those who pirate the game are missing out on...
Oh, was that my outside voice?
No, no, you guys have it all wrong - it's MOD PARENT UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A START!
That's the only way to get infinite lives on Slashdot.
It's obvious someone doesn't have any friends, otherwise it would have been "...B A SELECT START"
a shit-ton of money
Gotta love that imperial system. Wonder how much that is in metric.
There are two ways to attack this. Ordinarily, a metric ton is 1 000 kg, but a ton of money involves forex:
I really doubt this is the case, but given Ubisoft's statement of "It may seem like the crack is working but its not" I wouldn't be surprised if the crack really does not work.
I wouldn't be surprised if the crack works fine and Ubisoft was completely full of shit and trying to do damage control because they blew $BIGNUM on some half-witted DRM scheme and alienated half the fucking internet, and all for nothing.
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(At this point he was smarter than me and just started looking for another provider instead. He soon moved both his phone and internet access to a cable company.)
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Eventually I get to the real problem. The drone who sold me the upgrade had marked my account for termination instead of upgrade. Sadly, I'm not kidding.
Maybe said drone is also a customer and their conscience stepped in?
I've lost all my marbles except one & It's fun to test angular & centripetal acceleration in my skull