UbiSoft servers are down again this weekend

Am feeling stupid now for taking the chance and buying SH5 thinking that they would have sorted this crap out after last weekend.......


I never recommend people should pirate games but am starting to think this is the best and only way to go if you want be able to play the lastest UbiSoft games..
 
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This is quite epic fail on the part of Ubisoft, hopefully it'll teach them now to do this in the future with other games!
 
A piracy web site coordinating a denial of service attack in protest at DRM is just pathetically hypocritical IMO - get a life. :rolleyes:


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Piracy attack on Ubi or not... Makes no difference!
If I buy a game, I expect to be able to play it. Why should I not be able to play a game that I own? If this can happen then this DRM shouldn't have been implemented!
 
grudas said:
they have a life.. and they dont bend over like some of you do ;)
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My £17 grey market key says otherwise. :D

How pathetic though crying on some web site that you cant get a pirated version of some game to the extent that you would want to stop other people playing it. Those losers should get a job.

P.S. the game is great. ;)
 
n111ck said:
I think you can get the game to start but then you get a white screen hence the attacks on the ubi servers by frustrated script kiddies.
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*shrug* i thought it'd been cracked already. Either way i very much doubt these crackers looked at AC2, got frustrated and decided to launch a DDOS attack out of blind rage... thats a completely different thing.

Whats more pathetic is that Ubisoft seem powerless to prevent it. This is people who are ****ed at the DRM, not just people wanting to cause problems, otherwise they'd be down indefinately and then it'd realy hit the fan.
 
It's just a form of protest. Seems to have more of an impact than standing outside of Ubisoft offices with placards anyway.

I thought there was a playable pirated version?

I think any form of protest against this new wave of DRM is good personally. Games that have to be activated or even re-activated once in a while online is fine. A constant connection is undeniably restrictive, especially with laptops being able to play a lot of games these days. There are plenty of area's that don't have free wifi access after all. Buy a single player game and then be told (in a sense) when you can play and when you can't? No thanks.
 
mart981 said:
I think any form of protest against this new wave of DRM is good personally. Games that have to be activated or even re-activated once in a while online is fine. A constant connection is undeniably restrictive, especially with laptops being able to play a lot of games these days. There are plenty of area's that don't have free wifi access after all. Buy a single player game and then be told (in a sense) when you can play and when you can't? No thanks.
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Agreed. This is a protest that's having an immediate visual effect highlighting how poor this type of DRM is. You don't get that with most protests! Pretty smashing idea if you ask me.

And don't whine if you went and bought a Ubisoft game and feel your entitled to play it. For one, it's a game. For two, strap on a bloody pair and recognise when a system is rubbish and needs the good old vote of the wallet to change it.
 
Adrianr said:
And don't whine if you went and bought a Ubisoft game and feel your entitled to play it. For one, it's a game. For two, strap on a bloody pair and recognise when a system is rubbish and needs the good old vote of the wallet to change it.
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Not buying it is a vote with your wallet, this is illegal.
 
Shamikebab said:
Not buying it is a vote with your wallet, this is illegal.
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I never said they were the same people. I'm saying those who bought it shouldn't have. And that by buying it, and supporting this truely awful system of DRM, they forfeit their right to complain when someone decides to highlight it's obvious flaws (In this case it's a DoS attack, but it could quite easily be the homeowners internet not working, a common problem, or Ubisoft having genuine server problems later down the line, or just switching them off all together when they don't want to support it anymore)

At least by doing it this way Ubisoft (and others who bought the game not realising the problems this may cause in the future) may change their stance on it. Either by returning the game or just dropping the server conformation all together.

All a little too like MW2, with everyone screaming about boycotting the game due to no dedicated servers. What did most of them do come release day? Go and damn well buy it anyway. Bloody chumps.

Edit: Typed D twice!
 
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