Thanks to DRM, Some Ubisoft Games Won't Work Next Week

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Thanks to DRM, Some Ubisoft Games Won't Work Next Week

Posted by timothy on Friday February 3, 2012 @04:37AM from the how-about-a-nice-game-of-chess dept.

hypnosec writes "Several of Ubisoft's biggest titles won't be playable as of next week thanks to a server move by the publisher and the restrictive DRM that was used in their development. This isn't just multiplayer either. Because Ubisoft thought it would be a smart plan to use always on DRM for even the single player portion of games like Assassin's Creed, even the single player portion of that title won't be playable during the server move. Some of the other games affected by this move will be Tom Clancy's HAWX 2, Might & Magic: Heroes 6 and The Settlers 7. The Mac games that will be broken during this period are Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell Conviction and The Settlers. This move was announced this week as part of a community letter, with Ubisoft describing how the data servers for many of the publisher's online services would be migrated from third party facilities to a new location starting on the 7th February. The publisher didn't reveal how long the transfer would take."

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Thanks to DRM, I stole your FIRST POST by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-03 04:38 · Score: 0, Funny

How does this make you feel?
1. Re:Thanks to DRM, I stole your FIRST POST by ackthpt · 2012-02-03 04:52 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  How does this make you feel?
  Is this Eliza?
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2. Re:Thanks to DRM, I stole your FIRST POST by stanlyb · 2012-02-03 05:05 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Gooooooood, especially when i look and i dont see any Ubisoft games on my shelf.
3. Re:Thanks to DRM, I stole your FIRST POST by idontgno · 2012-02-03 05:09 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Meta-x psychoanalyze-slashdotter
  
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Re:You get what you pay for by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-03 04:42 · Score: 5, Funny

I WRITE random WORDS in caps SO I can YELL LOUDER for no apparent REASON
Poor System Architecture by ackthpt · 2012-02-03 04:43 · Score: 3, Funny

This is news?
Next thing you'll be telling us Credit Suisse has bad data ...
oh, wait.

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Dont worry. Ubisoft has great technical support by unity100 · 2012-02-03 04:46 · Score: 5, Funny

that fixes those things before they become an issue. they even have their own trendy name :
razor1911

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Re:You get what you pay for by sakdoctor · 2012-02-03 05:07 · Score: 5, Funny

I suffer FROM eTourettes you INSENSITIVE CLOD .
Re:I Must Be Missing Something Here by Seq · 2012-02-03 05:26 · Score: 5, Funny
1. Install software at new site.
Maybe DRM prevents them from installing in two places?
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Re:I Must Be Missing Something Here by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-03 07:28 · Score: 0, Funny

It doesn't matter what mechanism Unisoft use.
The technology is available today to make the impact of this change be no longer than it takes BGP to converge on the internet if they move the IP addresses with them... or around the duration of a TTL expiry for a DNS record.
There is NO reason why it has to be any longer ..
No there is a reason. UBISOFT DOESN'T GIVE A RAT'S ASS ABOUT THEIR CUSTOMERS.
No one plays these games anyways. They are over a year old. Who cares...you people are whining about something that effects very few people.