Ubisoft servers crash, games unplayable

8 March 2010

As if it was not bad enough that Ubisoft has attached an always-online DRM requirement to new PC game releases, the publisher has gone and made things a whole lot worse.

Gamers who bought copies of Assassin’s Creed 2 and Silent Hunter 5 over the weekend are up in arms, as server crashes rendered the games virtually unplayable.

Reports have been coming in that gamers have been having problems installing the games, and playing and saving games.

Ubisoft has released a statement, claiming that the server crashes are due to “exceptional demand,” although Ubisoft community managers have stated that the crashes are unacceptable.

This marks the fourth chapter in Ubisoft’s DRM debacle.

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Chapter 1 – Ubisoft’s new DRM requires always on internet

Chapter 2 – Ubisoft’s contentious DRM scheme already hacked

Chapter 3 – Ubisoft says DRM is not cracked

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