Ubisoft will be transitioning servers on February 7, and because a number of Ubisoft games have DRM linked to Ubisoft’s servers, those games will not be playable.
Some of Ubisoft’s most recent games, including Assassin’s Creed: Revelations and Driver: San Francisco, will not be affected.
“Ubisoft will be transitioning the hosting of many of its online services from a third-party data center to a new facility,” said the company. “During the transition, some Ubisoft services and online games will not be available. We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience. This move ultimately will help us improve the maintenance of our infrastructure and deliver better uptime and greatly improved services for our customers.”
Here’s the list of games that won’t be affected during the transition:
- Anno 2070 -- PC
- Assassin’s Creed: Revelations -- OnLive, PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
- Driver: San Francisco -- OnLive, PC, PS3, 360
- The Settlers Online -- Web-based
Here’s the list of games that will be affected during the transition:
- Assassin’s Creed -- Mac
- Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2 -- PC
- Might & Magic: Heroes VI -- PC
- Splinter Cell: Conviction -- Mac
- The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom -- PC
- The Settlers -- Mac
It’s unclear how long the server transition will take, with Ubisoft asking players to to follow its Twitter account.
None of this would be a problem if Ubisoft's games didn't have DRM, obviously.
Origin service is down at the moment, I just purchased Battlefield 3 for 'hopefully' a LAN I'm going to tonight... the client doesn't see the games on my account 'any of them'. Origin twitter account is just spamming the 'We apologize for the inconvenience and we're looking into it. Thanks for your patience.' crap.
So... similar to this I guess, very very lame and affecting current games I bought right now and want to play right now.
I like how Patrick slipped his Birthday in there too.
I just have to keep wondering, "What exactly is the DRM doing that they need to keep it up?".
If the person wanted to pirate the game, they could have easily done so since I'm sure there are cracked versions of all of those games by now. So.. about the people who are playing it now, what is the DRM keeping them from? Putting it up on a torrent? Because it's already there anyways.
That's what I get for bringing logic into this though. Sorry Ubi, I like your games, but I'm not going to support anti-consumer practices.
Goddamn Ubi stop sucking
Shameless plug of Patrick's birthday. I like it.
Ha Patrick asking for presents.
Anno 2070 -- PC
Thank fuck for that! I'll be able to carry on my playthrough. Ubi do like to make good things hard to do don't they?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
I got you something (its a ton of LA Looks Hair Gel)
And they wonder why people pirate their games.
happy near birthday Pklep! Maybe they'll release Pushmo 2 for your birthday instead!
Does that mean that the Mac ports of those games aren't just the PC versions wrapped in Wine, and there are seriously specific Mac/PC DRM servers?
I probably wont be around on the 7th so I'll say it now.
Happy birthday Patrick :)
now that the future birthday salutations are done with I shall share my view on this matter.
meh. that is all.
Way to slip your birthday in there, Patrick. I'm sure it's also an accident that three of those game links just happen to point to your Amazon wishlist. Nice try.
@patrickklepek said:
Ubisoft must regard this game very poorly, not even using the game's actual name, just some online settlers thing...
P.S. the game is horrible.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
It's creepy to wish happy birthday to someone you've never met / doesn't know you / never will either and especially address him by his first name and act like you've known him forever. This is actually one of the thing that is creepy about giantbomb's community.
well the dialogue from within has been far too passive to put any kind of serious pressure on companies like ubisoft, at least to an extent that could potentially impact sales and curtail many of the decisions governing DRM impositions like these in the first place.
so moan all you like, but every purchase made, however apathetic, clears the path that much more for future inconvenience.
So first they make us connect arbitrarily to their systems to play our games, then they take them offline with the claim that it's to make their bad service slightly less bad.
@Draxyle said:
As an always online DRM they game basicaly keeps reporting to their servers every few seconds.