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Ubisoft apologise for game 'outage' during server migration
Posted: 08.02.2012 13:56 by Simon Priest Comments: 5
Publisher Ubisoft has offered gamers an apology after their server migration period affected titles previously said to be safe from disruption. They're switching from third-party to in-house.

Driver: San Francisco for PC was rendered unplayable despite being 'fine' during the transition. Anno 2070 was also suffering. Most titles were to be "impacted" by the move.

"We apologise for the inconvenience, it seems some of you can't connect to games announced as playable during migration," twittered Ubisoft. DRM is the cause.

Those definitely ruled out for play during the server switch were Tom Clancy's HAWX 2, Might & Magic: Heroes 6 and The Settlers 7, while Mac gamers lost Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell Conviction and The Settlers.
Source: Eurogamer

Comments

By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Feb 08, 2012
herodotus
I don't accept the apology, empty as it is I'm afraid. Compensation - the key word here.
By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Feb 08, 2012
SirRoderick
The DRM still working for you Ubi?
By FoolWolf (SI Elite) on Feb 09, 2012
FoolWolf
of course it is SirRoderick - they are pissing off their paying customers like never before - and guess what - they still HAVE customers...
Unbelievable...
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Feb 09, 2012
herodotus
I am so happy that Eugen Systems ("Act of War", R.U.S.E.") have not gone with Ubisoft with "Wargame: European Escalation", a followup of sorts to "RUSE". For one thing the price is decent, and for another - no UPlay DRM. Focus Home Interactive will be, I hope a better publisher for the game and not one that is happy to have a game released and then basically leave it be with few patches and expensive DLC.
Ubisoft's abandonment of "SH5", and virtual dump'n'run with "IL2:CoD" disgust me.
By nocutius (SI Elite) on Feb 09, 2012
nocutius
"...DRM is the cause"

Oh look, they finally figured it out :).