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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."
MOD PARENT DOWN.
I feel really... really weird defending Ubisoft. I don't mean to, sorry ;-)
But here goes: I don't think this DRM would be a huge problem in my life*.
[(*) Assuming it worked "correctly"--i.e. the Ubisoft servers were never down and always said "let Jonas play" as long as I had a valid, purchased license to play the game. Yes, that's a stretchy, unrealistic assumption.]
The few hours/year my ISP is down (~one day total), I have other games to play.
And the few times where I (1) don't have internet access; (2) is in a good position to player computer games; (3) want to play a single player game; those times I can count on one hand. Maybe even one without fingers.
(1) was true staying in a cabin in the woods with friends, but then (3) wasn't true, I wanted to play with my friends rather than alone. (1) is true every day while I commute, but then (2) isn't true. And (1) looks like it's going to not ever be true again, given tetherable `tubes' on my next cell phone.
No, I don't want that kind of DRM in my games. But if it performed according to specifications (again, yes that's unrealistic), I don't think I would be inconvenienced that much.
It had been said that some day the servers might go offline and strand everybody who purchased the games legally. Little did i know it would be less than a month.
Everything is porn to somebody.