Ubisoft's Authentication Servers Go Down 634
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."
DONT WORRY GUYS! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hope they learned a lesson (Score:5, Funny)
Stop supporting games with this kind of DRM
Ubisoft clearly has.
Re:Hope they learned a lesson (Score:5, Funny)
Re:LOL (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hope they learned a lesson (Score:1, Funny)
MOD PARENT LEFT
You do the hokey pokey and you mod them all around!
Re:LOL (Score:2, Funny)
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...?
Re:I already said it (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Hope they learned a lesson (Score:1, Funny)
MOD THE PARENT DESTRUCTOR!
Re:Hope they learned a lesson (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Thank You Ubisoft (Score:5, Funny)
Re:DONT WORRY GUYS! (Score:5, Funny)
Reminds me of a story (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Reminds me of a story (Score:5, Funny)
This entire planet is mad, you know.
Well yes but mostly harmless.
Pirated copy incomplete (Score:3, Funny)
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...
Re:Hope they learned a lesson (Score:2, Funny)
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 ton of money in euros (Score:3, Funny)
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:
Re:LOL (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:Reminds me of the German Telekom (Score:3, Funny)
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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.)
... ...
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?