Ubisoft DRM Causing More Problems

Joe Helfrich writes "Ubisoft's Settlers 7 servers have been causing problems for over a week for users worldwide, and Australian gamers are hardly able to connect at all. 'The problem reportedly strikes after the game has already confirmed an active Internet connection, and prevents the user from playing even the single-player campaign, returning the error "server not available." But they are available, because other people are logged into them and merrily playing away.' Wonder how they're going to describe this one as an attack."

Comments

Re:DRMlicious

[Anonymous Coward]

Stardock is only "anti-DRM" because it gets their crapware headlines on gaming sites. They blame pirates as fast as they can. I mean look at their last title, they blamed *pirates* for the game's horrible Impulse multiplayer not working at all. At least other companies like EA and Activision (shudder) make sure their games work and blame pirates for *poor sales* and not for the fact that they're incompetent (unlike Stardock's worthless ass).

In fact, it looks like Ubisoft has a very similar technology strategy as Stardock: when their technology doesn't work blame the badmen/pirates (oh noes). But at least Ubisoft's games are fun when they work, unlike Stardock's pathetic games.

Re:Settlers 7

[Khyber]

"Assassin's Creed 2 still hasn't been cracked successfully,"

Nonsense. Quit using torrents and worm your way into the real release scene. I beat ACII before it was even released. That DRM has been cracked.