Ubisoft Masterserver down? (merged)

[mikeydredd]

Sensible man. What about the rest?

[mikeydredd]

..........deafening silence..........

[Arclight]

Same deal. Why would you think anyone expected 100% reliability?

The silence you hear is the response to an irrelevant question.

[Mos]

I guess I was expecting at least 90-95% uptime.

I guess I was wrong.

[theluckyone17]

Ok.... God, I really didn't want to say this... Sorry, Neal. Gotta point out the obvious.

Maybe, just maybe... it's because they're not used to internet reliability (their connection, Ubisoft's connection, all the connections in between, Ubisoft's servers, firewall/security software, etc) affecting their single player games.

... Or was that obvious for everybody else? Just thought I'd point it out. I'll go back to being quiet now

[Onkel Neal]

I'll take incomprehensible posts for 100, Alex.

[Arclight]

Reliability issues come in all shapes and sizes; 360s breaking down, PS3 suffering from a calendar bug, PCs getting a virus, etc.

There's no such thing as 100% reliable. I don't see how people, especially knowing about OSP, could expect such a thing.

[Arclight]

My game just started working again, btw.

[blackdog_kt]

I've taken a long break from sub-sims, i used to play a lot of SH3 but i didn't have a PC powerful enough for SH4 when it was released plus i prefer the Atlantic theater of operations. Naturally, i was very excited when SH5 was announced, so i've been following this entire DRM thing for some time.

First of all, let me say that i didn't purchase SH5 as i didn't purchase Rise of Flight (which, even if patched to allow offline play i think you still can't access the campaign offline, just single missions).

I have a very simple solution for all of you guys who bought this game, that will hopefully result not just in you playing the game, but in UBI realizing that something is amiss. And because i don't want to be mistaken as a piracy advocate, let's start with the defining question.

If i buy a game and then use modified files to make it run better .... EDIT: Blackdog, I appreciate that you have undertaken the duty to educate everyone about basic cracks 101, and no one is going to say a word to you about what you do on your PC in your den, but you cannot discuss it here, mate. -- NS

[Steeltrap]

Advocating "piracy"?

Start Brig countdown.....

Raises an interesting question through in interesting line of argument, mind you.

[razark]

Originally Posted by blackdog_kt

I've taken a long break from sub-sims, i used to play a lot of SH3 but i didn't have a PC powerful enough for SH4 when it was released plus i prefer the Atlantic theater of operations. Naturally, i was very excited when SH5 was announced, so i've been following this entire DRM thing for some time.

Yeah, and what part of "don't discuss it here" are y'all missing?

Originally Posted by Steeltrap

Raises an interesting question through in interesting line of argument, mind you.

Yeah, sadly, the laws here in the US are pretty pro-business. If the customer does something that violates the EULA, the customer would be the one to get squashed.

It might be a decent argument in some other countries, though.

[jwilliams]

@ Blackdog_kt
It is illegal what you are sugesting. How it holds up in court is another story. It's a grey area. So would be best to steer clear.

The distribution and use of cracked copies is illegal in almost every developed country. There have been many lawsuits over cracking software, but most had to do with the distribution of the duplicated product rather than the process of defeating the protection, due to the difficulty of constructing legally sound proof of individual guilt in the latter instance. In the United States, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) made software cracking, as well as the distribution of information that facilitates software cracking, illegal. However, the law has hardly been tested in U.S. courts in cases of reverse engineering for personal use only.[citation needed] The European Union passed the EU Copyright Directive in May 2001, which makes software copyright infringement illegal as the member states pass legislation pursuant to the directive.[citation needed]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_cracking

[Mos]

Only distribution is illegal, not possession.

[Reece]

I think UBI should do the right thing now and issue a patch to remove OSP, problem solved!

[jwilliams]

Originally Posted by Mos

Only distribution is illegal, not possession.

Let me hightlight it for you :-
The distribution and use of cracked copies is illegal in almost every developed country