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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."
Hey, remind me of something: what are you talking about? It's not like network administrators have a magic "prevent DDOS" button
I think the word you're looking for is, "competence." But, you're right. Very rare to find in network admins.
Eighty years ago the French engineers built a wall to protect France from Germans. The Germans walked around it and invaded the country.
Ten years ago the French engineers built a nuclear aircraft carrier that was too short to allow planes to land on it. It was also exposing the crew to radiation.
Now they designed a network-based DRM, which was cracked almost immediately, until (surprise!) the servers went down in flame.
Bunch of buffoons.
And 123 years they built the Eiffel Tower.
Bush is gone, the French are no longer the enemy. Give it up.
I remember the ignorance defence from a prior topic.
Windows user in 1992: I had no idea Windows sucks! How could I have known this was going to happen?
Windows user in 1993: I had no idea Windows sucks! How could I have known this was going to happen?
Windows user in 1994: I had no idea Windows sucks! How could I have known this was going to happen?
Windows user in 1995: I had no idea Windows and its applications suck and are dangerous to use if you're on a network. How could I have known this was going to happen?
Windows user in 1996: I had no idea Windows and its applications suck and are dangerous to use if you're on a network. How could I have known this was going to happen?
Windows user in 1997: I had no idea Windows and its applications suck and are dangerous to use if you're on a network. How could I have known this was going to happen?
Windows user in 1998: I had no idea Windows and its applications suck and are dangerous to use if you're on a network. How could I have known this was g
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Be VERY careful clicking those links. Ubisoft is only able to censor posts relating to cracks and such, but NOT goatse, all manner of shock pictures (mutilations, diseases, decomposition, bodily fluids, all manner of fecal matter, etc.) on their forums.
Repeat : that forum post contains tubgirl, goatse, dead people, etc. Do not click it unless you want to see just how depraved the mods at Ubisoft are to let /that/ slide but censor links to cracks.