Ubisoft Masterserver down? (merged) - Page 16

vonce1 · 03-08-10, 07:20 PM

servers down here at 16:20PM PST. Spoke with UBI rep, he said that russian hackers are attacking them. why the f**k should I care, I paid for the game and want to play it

Onkel Neal · 03-08-10, 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by UnSalted

You might consider joining Neal in prayer....

j/k Neal.

Lol, thanks.

I don't get my feathers ruffled easily. Did some work around the house and BdU just called me back into action!

Plus, the Subsim server upgrade just got underway

Hartmann · 03-08-10, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by vonce1

servers down here at 16:20PM PST. Spoke with UBI rep, he said that russian hackers are attacking them. why the f**k should I care, I paid for the game and want to play it

My guess is that every time that servers goes down they would say that is a hackers attack, true or false doesn´t matter. one day russians, another chinese, and finaly martians attacks

Curval · 03-08-10, 07:43 PM

Oddly the Steam servers are up and running.....just sayin.

UnSalted · 03-08-10, 08:03 PM

The international political ramifications are mindboggling. We've got thousands of Americans complaining that they can't sink Allied shipping while in charge of a German U boat and the Russians, for whom much of the shipping was intended, are now enaged in terrorist activities on behalf of said U boats.

And many of the same people are complaining about the lack of realism involved........

theluckyone17 · 03-08-10, 08:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

I just wanted to post that I am unable to log in and play. I do not know if it is a massed DOS attack, Ubi doesn't have enough servers, or if some European logging truck crashed into the substation.

I know that makes some of you very happy but I ain't afraid to say it.

I'd be a lot happier if I could say that all of us were playing SH5 right now

.

Iridium · 03-08-10, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by theluckyone17

I'd be a lot happier if I could say that all of us were playing SH5 right now

.

That would be a magical moment, full of wonder, and hope, and maybe even a little love. Plus, unicorns.

mookiemookie · 03-08-10, 08:13 PM

Whoever thought the days where all we had to complain about were game breaking bugs would be looked upon with such fondness?

cappy70 · 03-08-10, 08:20 PM

I know it is old, but earlier today I got also "incorrect username or password" and it also gave me "Can't connect to Account Server" and game wouldn't log in and UBI forums was down too.

It works now though.

My take is: Offer an offline patch to geniune verifed buyers, i.e. US !!

Upside is that we fast SubSim Servers up running though..

Carotio · 03-08-10, 08:32 PM

Somehow, looking though all the complaints here and in all other forums, just confirms to me that I was right not to preorder and not to rush out to buy it in any store too soon. I feel sorry for all you who either took the chance or who blindly trusted Ubisoft.

Wasting time on awaiting a sign in online to play a single player and it's failing is just beyond friendly customer policy, and it reminds me of an old quote:
Time is money

Time is precious. Ubisoft is stealing YOUR time, when their OSP is failing, no matter the reason. You cannot get a time refund, so they should refund the time as cash, one might think. And if this occurs more and more frequently, I suspect it will be highly likely that it might happen in a lawsuit. I presume most countries have an organization for consumers, which can make that lawsuit on behalf of many unsatisfied customers, if the problems persists. And I somehow think it's a very likely prediction.

Either Ubisoft will have to remove their OSP from SH5 and AC2 soon, sooner than they removed their DRM from SH4 - was it after ½ year or more?, or they may risk such a lawsuit.
The loyal customers are not to be held hostage in the war between the software developper and their opponents aka the pirates.

Another quote comes to my mind in this situation:
A good product sells itself.
If a game is too good, less advertisement and counter-copy-protectionism is needed. The game will simply sell by the advertisement between users though mouth-to-ear advertisement.

Last but not least funny in a tragi-comic way...

jwilliams · 03-08-10, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by cappy70

My take is: Offer an offline patch to geniune verifed buyers, i.e. US !!

Upside is that we fast SubSim Servers up running though..

I wish they would... BUT...

They cant release a offline patch... cus then the pirated versions of the game could use this patch to make the pirated games fully funtional.
ATM the pirated version are just Demos... they're not fully funtioning.
So if Ubi released the patch then the pirates would win, so Ubi arn't going to back down until the game is crack (fully).
But if this DDoS attack continues and Ubi cant stop it, then i guess they'll have to addmit defeat. But i doubt that will be any time soon.

jdkbph · 03-08-10, 09:00 PM

...it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

William Blackstone said that. Smart fellow, William.

JD

cappy70 · 03-08-10, 09:07 PM

In my case it was that I knew about DRM, since I was doing testing for a another game that was "DRM made", way before SH5 was out and there were some problems when patching in that game for example, i.e. the game server would not recognize the log on when the new patch was applied.

Now, there is another take on this: The good out of this is that we might not ever see a "DRM" again in any shape, because it has really been proven what a bad choice it is, in the shape it is now.

I do,though, see also that companies have a right to protect themselves from piracy and this form of DRM is evidently not the right path to go.

Bottomline, game wise I'm not at all regretting my buy of SH5 and since I now can see what it really needs,(besides the usual bugs that all games have), I can in a better way approach the critisism of DRM ( that, by the way, we in the test group suspected from get go was a bad way of doing it and I should also say that it wasn't the DRM per si, it was the constant connection to Internet that was the real issue.)
Have a one-time-connection-DRM ( like many other games have) and that's it.

"Bioshock 2" has a kind of that.

mikeydredd · 03-08-10, 09:35 PM

I've just got a simple question to ask John Channing and any body else who has bought this game -

What made you think that a game that has to be connected to remote servers to play 100% of the time was ever going to be 100% reliable?

Onkel Neal · 03-08-10, 09:56 PM

Never thought that. What makes you think I did?

03-08-10, 07:20 PM	#226
vonce1 A-ganger Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: So. California Posts: 79 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 0	servers down here at 16:20PM PST. Spoke with UBI rep, he said that russian hackers are attacking them. why the f**k should I care, I paid for the game and want to play it __________________

03-08-10, 08:13 PM	#233
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03-08-10, 08:20 PM	#234
cappy70 Ensign Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: USA/Florida/Sweden Posts: 234 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Ok I know it is old, but earlier today I got also "incorrect username or password" and it also gave me "Can't connect to Account Server" and game wouldn't log in and UBI forums was down too. It works now though. My take is: Offer an offline patch to geniune verifed buyers, i.e. US !! Upside is that we fast SubSim Servers up running though.. __________________ Specs Windows 10 64 bit Pro Asus Z - 97A Intel I7-4790K 4 Ghz 16 Gig Trident Claw DDR 3 2 x 760 GTX 2048 mem in SLI. WD 1T Hd Ultra/WD Black 640 Corsair 850W PSU

03-08-10, 08:32 PM	#235
Carotio Mr. Bad Wolf Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Aabenraa, Denmark Posts: 1,488 Downloads: 47 Uploads: 0	Somehow, looking though all the complaints here and in all other forums, just confirms to me that I was right not to preorder and not to rush out to buy it in any store too soon. I feel sorry for all you who either took the chance or who blindly trusted Ubisoft. Wasting time on awaiting a sign in online to play a single player and it's failing is just beyond friendly customer policy, and it reminds me of an old quote: Time is money Time is precious. Ubisoft is stealing YOUR time, when their OSP is failing, no matter the reason. You cannot get a time refund, so they should refund the time as cash, one might think. And if this occurs more and more frequently, I suspect it will be highly likely that it might happen in a lawsuit. I presume most countries have an organization for consumers, which can make that lawsuit on behalf of many unsatisfied customers, if the problems persists. And I somehow think it's a very likely prediction. Either Ubisoft will have to remove their OSP from SH5 and AC2 soon, sooner than they removed their DRM from SH4 - was it after ½ year or more?, or they may risk such a lawsuit. The loyal customers are not to be held hostage in the war between the software developper and their opponents aka the pirates. Another quote comes to my mind in this situation: A good product sells itself. If a game is too good, less advertisement and counter-copy-protectionism is needed. The game will simply sell by the advertisement between users though mouth-to-ear advertisement. Last but not least funny in a tragi-comic way... __________________ Download my mods from SHMF Follow my photography here taler dansk, speak English, spreche Deutsch, parle français, forstår svenska/norsk, comprendo castellano

03-08-10, 09:07 PM	#238
cappy70 Ensign Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: USA/Florida/Sweden Posts: 234 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Nah In my case it was that I knew about DRM, since I was doing testing for a another game that was "DRM made", way before SH5 was out and there were some problems when patching in that game for example, i.e. the game server would not recognize the log on when the new patch was applied. Now, there is another take on this: The good out of this is that we might not ever see a "DRM" again in any shape, because it has really been proven what a bad choice it is, in the shape it is now. I do,though, see also that companies have a right to protect themselves from piracy and this form of DRM is evidently not the right path to go. Bottomline, game wise I'm not at all regretting my buy of SH5 and since I now can see what it really needs,(besides the usual bugs that all games have), I can in a better way approach the critisism of DRM ( that, by the way, we in the test group suspected from get go was a bad way of doing it and I should also say that it wasn't the DRM per si, it was the constant connection to Internet that was the real issue.) Have a one-time-connection-DRM ( like many other games have) and that's it. "Bioshock 2" has a kind of that. __________________ Specs Windows 10 64 bit Pro Asus Z - 97A Intel I7-4790K 4 Ghz 16 Gig Trident Claw DDR 3 2 x 760 GTX 2048 mem in SLI. WD 1T Hd Ultra/WD Black 640 Corsair 850W PSU

03-08-10, 07:43 PM	#229
Curval Navy Dude Join Date: May 2005 Location: Bermuda Posts: 177 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Oddly the Steam servers are up and running.....just sayin.

03-08-10, 08:03 PM	#230
UnSalted Machinist's Mate Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 130 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	The international political ramifications are mindboggling. We've got thousands of Americans complaining that they can't sink Allied shipping while in charge of a German U boat and the Russians, for whom much of the shipping was intended, are now enaged in terrorist activities on behalf of said U boats. And many of the same people are complaining about the lack of realism involved........

03-08-10, 09:00 PM	#237
jdkbph Captain Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 508 Downloads: 104 Uploads: 0	...it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer. William Blackstone said that. Smart fellow, William. JD

03-08-10, 09:35 PM	#239
mikeydredd Bosun Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 65 Downloads: 36 Uploads: 0	Simple question I've just got a simple question to ask John Channing and any body else who has bought this game - What made you think that a game that has to be connected to remote servers to play 100% of the time was ever going to be 100% reliable?

03-08-10, 09:56 PM	#240
Onkel Neal Born to Run Silent Join Date: Jan 1997 Location: Cougar Trap, Texas Posts: 21,385 Downloads: 541 Uploads: 224	Never thought that. What makes you think I did? __________________ SUBSIM - 26 Years on the Web