Reminder: You won't be able to play some Ubisoft games next week.

source: http://static2.cdn.ubi.com/transition/details/

Ubisoft is moving some of their servers to a new location, next week, so the online functionality of all games except Anno 2070, Assassin's Creed Revelations, Just Dance 3, and Driver: San Francisco will be unavailable beginning on February 7 for an indefinite period of time.

Even better -- because DRM is for the benefit of the legitimate paying customer, you won't be able to play the following games. At all. Not even single-player:

• Assassin's Creed
• H.A.W.X. 2
• Might & Magic: Heroes VI
• Splinter Cell: Conviction
• The Settlers Online
• The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom

I blame the French!

My NES still works.

@themangalist: The day and age when it makes sense to pirate a game AFTER you've already paid for it...

Why the original AC is unplayable is beyond me.

@nintendoeats said:

My NES still works.

Ubisoft actually developed time travel so they could go back in time and implement their DRM into all their older games. They really want to crack down on piracy.

Wait, seriously? They're taking down the authentication servers for their DRMed PC games, too? What the fuck, Ubi.

Why are messages being deleted from this thread? Three, from three different posters, including myself...?

This is a warning for user to not discuss or promote pirating or circumnavigating copy right protection in this thread. Comments have been and will be deleted which do this.

@ZombiePie said:

This is a warning for user to not discuss or promote pirating or circumnavigating copy right protection in this thread. Comments have been and will be deleted which do this.

Are you serious? Nobody in this thread has promoted pirating or circumnavigating copyright protection. The three comments from the three different people were commenting on how legitimate users being impacted by DRM in this way can very well lead to people "pirating" pieces of content when they otherwise would not have.

If that is "promoting pirating or circumnavigating copyright protection", then you need to comb back through every discussion and article regarding ACTA/SOPA/DRM and well beyond as it is an entirely valid point and concern when discussing DRM.

The spirit of the policy to not promote the activity is very clearly intended to prevent people from pointing to torrent sites, discussing how to actually perform it, or otherwise actively encouraging copyright infringement in a way that would cause problems for the site, overall. To construe that policy to, instead, be intended to strip away any conversation on the impact of DRM in a non-specific and non-instructive way (which I'm not going to quote here, because you'll surely use that as an excuse to ban my account, as a result) is fucking asinine.

@Marcsman said:

Why the original AC is unplayable is beyond me.

Yeah, and it's only the Mac version too. I do not understand this...

@PeasantAbuse said:

@Marcsman said:

Why the original AC is unplayable is beyond me.

Yeah, and it's only the Mac version too. I do not understand this...

What I find really bizarre about it all is that they are going to be down for enough time to warrant them notifying players, like that. It shouldn't be "indefinite". Typically, a large move like that would be planned out and have a full agenda. Possibly with actual times given for each activity. Instead of shutting down everything, moving it somewhere else, setting it back up, and turning it back on -- you would expect that everything would be set up at the new location. You'd shut off the old site and fire up the new one as soon as you've verified that it's working. Then, you'd wait for the new location to catch up on the changes that have occurred since the duplication - and go live. Unless something went wrong, you'd be looking at an outage of minutes or house; not "indefinite".

I would especially think that to be the case when you're dealing with services for paying customers. Especially when it impacts a portion of your business that is already under pretty severe scrutiny.

@Branthog said:

@PeasantAbuse said:

@Marcsman said:

Why the original AC is unplayable is beyond me.

Yeah, and it's only the Mac version too. I do not understand this...

What I find really bizarre about it all is that they are going to be down for enough time to warrant them notifying players, like that. It shouldn't be "indefinite". Typically, a large move like that would be planned out and have a full agenda. Possibly with actual times given for each activity. Instead of shutting down everything, moving it somewhere else, setting it back up, and turning it back on -- you would expect that everything would be set up at the new location. You'd shut off the old site and fire up the new one as soon as you've verified that it's working. Then, you'd wait for the new location to catch up on the changes that have occurred since the duplication - and go live. Unless something went wrong, you'd be looking at an outage of minutes or house; not "indefinite".

I would especially think that to be the case when you're dealing with services for paying customers. Especially when it impacts a portion of your business that is already under pretty severe scrutiny.

I agree with you partially, In a business sense classic DMR is a poor way to address piracy, however, out of proportion sense of entitlement to justify stealing is not acceptable to me.

Lack of education and values are part of the problem.

What a joke.

There's an article about this in the Ubisoft forum.

http://www.giantbomb.com/ubisoft-entertainment/65-82/some-ubisoft-games-not-playable-on-my-birthday/35-534624/