UBI Site - Can't access at all

[Reece]

Originally Posted by Adriatico

Did you see new "read me" file ?

It should be played Mon-Fri 8.00-16.00.

Disturbing DRM for weekend at your own risk...

You are joking! surely!

[Adriatico]

Originally Posted by Reece

You are joking! surely!

I new it was YOU testing the server Saturdays... even more with that messy time-zone down under...

[Nisgeis]

Originally Posted by JScones

Actually, mookiemookie speculated this back in February.

Ah, I must have missed that in the 'torrent' ( ) of DRM posts.

Originally Posted by Placoderm

Sorry Nisgeis, but I agree wholeheartedly with Fincuan, John W. Hamm, and the others on this one...

It was UbiSoft and UbiSoft alone who decided that an always-on internet connection was needed to play this game.

That's true, but there's two sides to the story. I think people are going off all half cocked on this one. Some are convinced it was user numbers due to the timing of the outage, some are convinced it's a DDOS again due to the timing (why disrupt a quiet time, when you can make a bigger impact during a busy time). Some cite the previous announcement of a DDOS by Ubiriptoft and others to counter that say that Ubiriptoft are lying. If people won't believe what Ubi say is the cause, then they'll never accept anything that is said and will just stick to their assumptions. It may as well be claims of aliens tampering with the DRM servers, because we'll never know if everyone lies... cue spooky music and don tin foil hat.

Have Ubi announced anything yet? No updates on Twitter at all yesterday.

[Yak]

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

We expected occasional downtime from the Ubi servers, but NO ONE ( I REPEAT NO ONE) predicted a pirate group would launch a DDOS attack on the servers. I mean the pirates are meant to be on our side right? But they're the ones stopping us playing!

Actually I said it numerous times before release, as did many others, on many sites.
Honestly I expected it to be on the launch days of SH5 and Assassins Creed 2 though.
The most surprising thing is it took two weeks to do it.

As for the pirates being to blame not ubi, while I don't defend piracy, what you are saying is like blaming the villagers for not turning the resistance fighters over to the nazis, and it is there fault when the nazi's stage a 'collective punnishment' on the village.

[John Channing]

Again... just so I understand the logic of your analogy.


- The Ubisoft servers work fine.

- Because the Ubisoft servers are working fine you can play SH 5

- The hackers run a DOS attack on the servers

- Because the hackers run a DOS attack on the Ubisoft servers you cannot play SH 5

- It's Ubisoft's fault


Have I pretty well got it?

JCC

[robbo180265]

Been playing this morning without any problems - was kicked off the computer by my "other DRM" - my girlfriend wanted to play Wow lol

John - this is how I see it, maybe its the way some of the others do too. Gonna use your post to illustrate only , this is in no-way an attack on you

-Ubisoft include a DRM in the game that means that you have to stay online to play your single player game

- The Ubisoft servers work fine.

- Because the Ubisoft servers are working fine you can play SH 5

- The hackers run a DOS attack on the servers

- Because the hackers run a DOS attack on the Ubisoft servers you cannot play SH 5

- It's Ubisoft's fault for making me have to be online when there is a dos attack going on, its also the pirates fault for carrying out a dos attack

- I'm angry at both

[The Enigma]

- The Ubisoft servers work fine as long as there is not much traffic to handle.

- Because there is much traffic Ubisoft servers aren't working fine and you can't play SH 5

- The hackers are getting the blame (running a DOS attack on the servers)

- Because the hackers run a DOS attack on the Ubisoft servers you cannot sue UBI

- It's that simple

[Dutch]

The more threads I see like this the bigger my smile gets.

All of you who are in the least bit angry at all at anyone regardless if its the "pirates" or the pirates(UBI). The only person you should be angry at is yourself for agreeing to spend 50$ on a game that you do not own.

Remember no one held a gun to your head and told you to buy the "rent" to play the game. The only people you should blame for this is yourselves.

[chaparral02]

Looks like there new DRM is working really great and is stopping 1000's of people from being able to play.....


But there is one little problem,it the 1000's of people that payed for the game

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by JScones

Actually, mookiemookie speculated this back in February. A few people commented, but I think the idea was largely ignored as being "doomsday naysaying"...or perhaps even simply not understood.

And notice I've not posted any of this "I told you so" crap, unlike some others in this forum.

Originally Posted by Dutch

The more threads I see like this the bigger my smile gets.

All of you who are in the least bit angry at all at anyone regardless if its the "pirates" or the pirates(UBI). The only person you should be angry at is yourself for agreeing to spend 50$ on a game that you do not own.

Remember no one held a gun to your head and told you to buy the "rent" to play the game. The only people you should blame for this is yourselves.

Why even post this garbage?

You stay classy.

[robbo180265]

Originally Posted by Dutch

The more threads I see like this the bigger my smile gets.

All of you who are in the least bit angry at all at anyone regardless if its the "pirates" or the pirates(UBI). The only person you should be angry at is yourself for agreeing to spend 50$ on a game that you do not own.

Remember no one held a gun to your head and told you to buy the "rent" to play the game. The only people you should blame for this is yourselves.

Nice to see how much you care about the people on these forums.

P.s. I got my copy of the game at almost half price - well worth the risk I thought

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by robbo180265

Nice to see how much you care about the people on these forums.

The smug superiority he feels by making snide comments to strangers on the internet is probably all the self esteem he has in his impotent life. Let him have his moment.

[robbo180265]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

The smug superiority he feels by making snide comments to strangers on the internet is probably all the self esteem he has in his impotent life. Let him have his moment.

Rgr that

[Nisgeis]

Originally Posted by Yak

Actually I said it numerous times before release, as did many others, on many sites.

I went through all your posts, but couldn't find any post about a denial of service attack on the Ubi servers from you. Maybe I missed it - Could you point me to it please? I'd be interested to read your prediction, with the benefit of hindsight.

[SubV]