UbiSoft servers down today = No single player gaming

Has there been an official response or are they taking the silent approach. Early on in the day it was taking about 5 minutes and later it was working fine, so not the end of the world but we should not be having this for a singleplayer game.
 
saguy said:
Has there been an official response or are they taking the silent approach. Early on in the day it was taking about 5 minutes and later it was working fine, so not the end of the world but we should not be having this for a singleplayer game.
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I believe someone quoted a comment from the forum by Ubisoft staff. Stating that they don't understand how it has happened and they'll look into it first thing tomorrow :rolleyes:
 
Oh dear.

Soo much for "These servers will never fail" "Constantly Monitored".

Ubisoft had one chance with this.

They screwed up.

They have to remove this **** from their games now.

It is proven they do not have 24/7 cover on the servers.
 
Constantly monitored. Except at the weekend. And when they're not really being monitored. And when the monitoring guy falls asleep.

And when they can't be bothered :D
 
things like this wont be forgotten by customers so i can see it hurting sales of the next game they release if they use this security
 
Just cause they are "monitored" means nothing. You can see the security guy sat there logging "12.00 servers still down, now 22 hours, 1pm servers still down, now 23 hours..........":D
 
The thing that needs looking at is with digital downloads there is little or no way the customer can actually get his money back :(
 
Tefal said:
oblivion and fallout 3 sold massive amounts of games, their copy protection?


a simple CD key.


Make a good game don't punish your customers for having the audacity to actually buy your game and it will sell well.


Make it a generic piece of crap you release every year and make your customers jump though half a dozen hoops and it will get pirated.*



* and still sell sickeningly well because you spent tens of millions on advertising.
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they also had a securom disccheck as well. Which, while it may be a helluva lot better than the online nonsense Ubisoft are trying to push, still has its own problems.
 
Well we all knew this would happen.... DRM is annoying, as it wasn't my internet connection I had concerns about, it was UBI providing servers that were online 24/7.

This is like pay to play, and they decide on when you can play..... I guess when you buy a game you pay for the license to use it, and not the media, the media is just the method they use to provide the game, I would say they are covered for this in the small print somewhere...!!

You would agree to their terms when you are provided the media supplied to install the game, either digital or CD/DVD when you buy a license to play... Just another case of software houses trying to control how and when you play, all in efforts to combat software piracy of cause..!!
 
iv-tecman said:
Well we all knew this would happen.... DRM is annoying, as it wasn't my internet connection I had concerns about, it was UBI providing servers that were online 24/7.

This is like pay to play, and they decide on when you can play..... I guess when you buy a game you pay for the license to use it, and not the media, the media is just the method they use to provide the game, I would say they are covered for this in the small print somewhere...!!

You would agree to their terms when you are provided the media supplied to install the game, either digital or CD/DVD when you buy a license to play... Just another case of software houses trying to control how and when you play, all in efforts to combat software piracy of cause..!!
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It can't be. Its in the name of combatting second hand sales and restricting modding. If Ubisoft actually believed it'd combat piracy... well...
 
procrastinator said:
they also had a securom disccheck as well. Which, while it may be a helluva lot better than the online nonsense Ubisoft are trying to push, still has its own problems.
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That securom stuff is very annoying if you use virtual CD rom drives - as I do. I tend to take ISO images of some CD's like my Windows install CD and other stuff.. Virtual CD roms can be handy and if you have one installed or active the game using securom won't run..

Codemasters are the worse for this farce... Dirt and Dirt 2 being the ones I've got where I have to each time remove the virtual CD rom from device manager to run the game. I couldn't get a securom cloaking device to work on my system....

I also do sometimes image off an ISO and us a patch to allow me to run games from virtual CD's meaning I don;t have to keep searching for a DVD when I want to play a game - as I'm too lazy to put DVD's into the drive.!! lol Not all no CD patches work without the DVD being present as well...
 
iv-tecman said:
I also do sometimes image off an ISO and us a patch to allow me to run games from virtual CD's meaning I don;t have to keep searching for a DVD when I want to play a game - as I'm too lazy to put DVD's into the drive.!! lol Not all no CD patches work without the DVD being present as well...
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Which is probably not permitted under any fair use policy, making you a filthy pirate...

Say it with me now, "Arrrrrrrrrr!"
 
yeah but everyone can get around securom tbh.
not a biggie.
and those who said it's not been cracked yet. you are wrong.
 
You are kidding me! Oh dear.

I hope people that disagree with the way Ubisoft are punishing paying customers emails them to say so.
 
Sleepery said:
Constantly monitored. Except at the weekend. And when they're not really being monitored. And when the monitoring guy falls asleep.
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