Yesterday we reported that Ubisoft gamers would require “an active Internet connection to play the game, for all game modes” as part of its new digital rights management control.
Early reports on advance copies of the first two games to apply the solution, namely Assassin’s Creed II PC and The Settlers 7 PC, show that upon the termination of the internet connection the game automatically shuts down.
In the case of Assassin’s Creed II the player will lose all progress since the last checkpoint in the event that they even briefly lose connection to Ubisoft’s servers.
Naturally gamers are up in arms over this.
As part of a damage control campaign Ubisoft recently told Ars Technica that the situation is not as bad as it may seem.
“As long as you do not quit the game, the game will continue to try to reconnect for an unlimited time. Once the game is able to reconnect, you will immediately be returned to your game”
“Where exactly you are reconnected in the game may differ from title to title. Settlers 7 reconnects at the exact point where the connection was lost, AC2 reconnects you at the last checkpoint (and not the last auto save, as indicated in the CVG article). There are many checkpoints so you’re back to the point where you got disconnected in no time.”
In our opinion just because Ubisoft has now offered an explanation behind its DRM policy it doesn’t make it acceptable. Connectivity issues are bound to occur, whether you’re in South Korea or South Africa, and gamers shouldn’t have to suffer as a result – especially when they’ve willingly shelled out R400 for the latest Ubisoft title.
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