Ubisoft Blames DRM Outage on "Server Attack"

[aaron552]

If their goal is to piss off pirates paying customers, they are doing it right.

Fixed that for you

 

[CD-R]

Is it even possible to return your copy of PC Assasin's Creed 2?

Nope, because of piracy.

OT:

1) Its plausible, but I don't believe their excuse. They're hardly going to admit its already gone wrong through any fault of their own, are they?

2) It doesn't matter what they count as 'small', its not good enough.

Petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?ew15dl94

I was poking around on the modernwarfail2.com website. One thing they suggested people do if they want there money back was to do a charge back. Keep in mind this only works if you paid with a credit or debit card.

http://www.modernwarfail2.com/2009/12/02/let-retailers-lawyers-do-the-hard-work-for-you/

"?Do a chargeback on your credit or debit card?

Let me elaborate.

If you file a chargeback, make the reason you?re filing it ?Defective ? product does not work as described.?
(i.e. bad lag, hackers, no dedi?s, constant d/c?s ? finding out IWNet was swapped in without your knowing)

What does this mean? It means you?re stuck with a product you can?t return because the store won?t take it back, however it doesn?t WORK the way it was intended to. Your credit card company will return the charge back to you and the place you bought it from will have to EAT the charge"


Edit: http://www.amazon.com/Assassins-Creed-2-Pc/dp/B001TOQ8R0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1268084873&sr=1-3

You may want to get 1000 of your friends to write a bunch of 1 star reviews tomorrow.

 

[Eggsnham]

Sounds like they have a bad case of denial. Get it through your French heads Ubisoft, your DRM sucks more balls than the average DRM and everybody hates it. And I'm SURE that someone has a crack for it by now. Also, I'm quite sure that a lot more than 5% of people were affected.

 

[Antari]

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EA still owns Ubisoft

They only own 19.9% of the company, not the whole thing.

I hadn't heard they'd lost control of that much stock, then I'm mistaken. From my experience they treat customers the same way. I hate both companies.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

SO, 95% can still play? And I'm guessing that the 95% were the people who bought the console version

 

[Snotnarok]

Really? Your DRM hasn't been cracked Ubisoft? Hold on a minute...
*goes to google.com*

WOW! Your game with your shit DRM service actually IS cracked! Wow isn't that funny? How you guys are lying because this is also easy to find on googles serach? What do you hope to get by lying? That you've proven that your DRM is supposed to be for pirates and not the consumer? Well you're wrong again Ubisoft. Keep your crappy games

Your DRM is BS, I'm sticking to your old games where they were actually fun and not filled with DRM.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

That thing about 95% and it hasnt been cracked yet, its a canned response.

They are not going to admit that their hardware isnt up to the task, nor that their touted unbreakable system has been broken. They may ride the short bus to work but they are not brain dead. Just remember, they like their customers but they dont trust them.

 

[Tharwen]

Next time I go to a games store, I'll ask for a good indie game. Ubisoft can fuck off.

 

[commasplice]

I hadn't heard they'd lost control of that much stock, then I'm mistaken. From my experience they treat customers the same way. I hate both companies.

What? As far as Wikipedia is aware, they only ever owned that 20%

 

[brunothepig]

Interesting how they blame pirates when a system to keep out pirates malfunctions.

"If we didn't have all these rats here then our rat poison would have worked perfectly" Is not a valid press release when a human died of said rat poison.

This made me laugh. Probably because it's true... Hopefully this and the second crash is causing Ubi to rethink a bit. Do you think like half the people who bought the game have cracked it yet?

 

[Playbahnosh]

LIES! I don't know what kind of crack Ubisoft is tripping on, but they should come down from the clouds and return to reality, and pretty fast.

For one, I don't think the pirates were the one who attacked the servers, since pirates can play without them, there is no need to attack anything when they can just simply play without the hassle of DRM. I think the attack (if there even was an attack), was facilitated by angry customers or people angered by the new DRM, and not (necessarily) pirates.

And two, I don't know (or care) about SH5 or AC2, but I know there is a crack for SH5, my roommate is playing with that game for some days now. So, no, Ubi, your dreadful and utterly preposterous DRM is not as uncrackable as you thought.

This means Ubisoft is lying through it's teeth and they're trying to shift the blame on the pirates, but they can't fool anyone. Anybody, who has even a single molecule of intelligence in their brain knows what fucking bastards they are.

I know it's not nice to wish harm on anyone, but fuck Ubisoft, bring the thunder, fuck those servers up like there's no tomorrow. They won't learn any other way it seems.

 

[AngloDoom]

You don't have a great grasp of sarcasm, do you?

Only when written in between sarcasm tags. Text doesn't convey emotion very well.

How very odd, I don't believe I even wrote that last quote. I believe it was commasplice;

Snip.

You don't have a great grasp of sarcasm, do you?

Anyway, I thought it was pretty damn obvious. Sorry if it wasn't, but the 'thank fuck for that' thing doesn't really fit unless it's being sarcastic. The point isn't the amount of people it affected, it's the fact that it did, indeed, die.

Don't take this personally, but:

Spoiler: Easy enough mistake though, I guess.

 

[matrix3509]

Now, its only a matter of time before some script kiddie institutes a kind of man in the middle attack on the Ubisoft servers to automatically deny everyone who tries to authenticate.

Thats right people, I'm calling it: That will be the next reason why the servers fail.

Ubisoft really brought this on themselves. Piss normal people off enough, and they will retaliate.

 

[odanhammer]

You know the problem comes down to this.
As a gamer you can pick two choices for gaming. Legit purchase of a game , or to illegally download it.
As everyone knows, there are pro's and con's to both ways , as currently shown.
But the real problem comes down to how to end this nonsense.
Ubisoft wants to protect there investment, understandable, but as a consumer , limiting your right to play a game that has no need to be based off the internet screams for someone to file a class action lawsuit over fair use. Clearly this is an extreme method , which i currently can vouch has been broken and there is in fact a great way to play the game without connecting to the internet.
Ubisoft needs to learn a lesson , i highly hope that Assassin Creed 2 is a huge flop due to this. Anyone that buys the game really needs to be hit in the head with a clue bat, and same goes for anyone that downloads the game illegally.
This one time i pray that everyone just completely ignore a game , just for the sake of teaching the gaming industry what is ok to do , and what is completely wrong to do.

This is wrong , i really have no need to ever play a Ubisoft game again. And currently i actually don't even own any.

 

[samsonguy920]

Also, called it first, before the news.

That's starting to get as annoying as people who put FIRST! on a forum thread. Good job keeping on events, have a cookie. No, wait, I'm fresh out. Other people got there first.

OT: This is one more case of a games publisher sounding like a 5 year old child. "I went another way to school today to avoid Bobby, but then I got chased by some other kids! It's all Bobby's fault!" Waah waah waah. Maybe you need to wake up and see who your customers are before coming up with a dimwitted DRM scheme that will only kill your sales further when it gets hacked and screws over your customers even more.
It kinda bites, because I like the gameplay of AC, but until Ubisoft cuts the chord and gets rid of this server system I am not buying a copy of AC2.

 

[sramota]

DRM's will ALWAYS be cracked - You can tell a company has lost their grasp on reality when they make them hard enough to crack so the legit customers will suffer from it.

Congrats on losing your name and value in order to delay a crack for.. A week was it?
Really, I'm amazed that a company can be THIS ignorant that they try to stop Pirates by showing their fists up the rears of legit customers.
Assume a scriptkiddie just decides to piss with them more?
Daily downtime, paying customers can't play.
Pirates? Can always play.
GG..

 

[Caradinist]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Ah, humor aside, it's still pretty unfair for the people who actually did buy the games. I hate this DRM as much as anyone, perhaps more since I don't have a stable connection and AC2 was one of my most anticipated games in a very long time. Assuming Ubi is telling the truth and the servers really were attacked then maybe, just maybe this was going a bit too far.

But even if it is, it's still hilarious.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

And that's the sad part. The people who are affected are the actual people that went and bought this game.

 

[T-Bone24]

Guh, to all of you saying, "All this DRM is crap, it hurts the consumer, so I'm going to pirate their games to spite them", (Notice that's in bold) you do realise that that's merely going to encourage them to continue DRM? Buy the game legally, it means that developers won't be so scared of pirating.

 

[Radelaide]

So pathetic it's not even funny anymore. All people who know of this DRM, yet are still willing to buy the game, are phenomenal idiots.

I'm still convinced that if this catches on, PC gamers may resort to console gaming. I mean, I've got a few friends who played AC1 with a controller and they didn't mind it. And with the price of consoles like the Xbox being so cheap these days, it might be a realistic idea.

OT: Doesn't Ubisoft know of the term, 'Well, duuuuh!'? I mean, you piss a bunch of people off and heads are going to roll. PC gamers are a fickle bunch.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Guh, to all of you saying, "All this DRM is crap, it hurts the consumer, so I'm going to pirate their games to spite them", (Notice that's in bold) you do realise that that's merely going to encourage them to continue DRM? Buy the game legally, it means that developers won't be so scared of pirating.

And yet if piracy goes down, they assume the DRM is working, and keep using it. Lose-lose situation.