Thu, Mar 25, 2010 | 21:41 GMT
Ubisoft offers free content to those suffering online DRM outages
Ubisoft has decided to offer free game content to PC players of Assassin’s Creed 2 and Silent Hunter 5 after users were unable to play their games due to attacks on the DRM servers.
According to posts over on Ubi’s official message boards, emails have been sent out by the company offering those affected with a free downloadable game from a pre-selected list. Some claim to have been offered extra content for ACII for free.
The DRM servers went down at the beginning of the month.
Ubisoft has said that all PC games from the company will require users to always be online when playing, and explained that it will not hurt your saves should you be disconnected.
Still, understandably, it’s a bit of a thorn in PC gamer’s sides.
Thanks, BigDownload.
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Posted in: Hot, PC, Ubisoft
Tags: ACII, assassin's creed II, drm, silent hunter 5
9 comments
#1
Erthazus
25/03/10, 9:42 pm
Lol?
#2
Droid
25/03/10, 9:54 pm
Exactly… lol.
#3
YoungZer0
25/03/10, 10:32 pm
Lol.
#4
Kamikaze_Tutor
26/03/10, 12:20 am
Aren’t both game and DLC servers the same ones? Can we expect free stuff for the people who can’t download their free stuff?
#5
Hunam
26/03/10, 12:49 am
Giving stuff away seems to have cost them about as much as they made in the first place from this move :S
Really, what’s the point. It just annoys me and I won’t buy any of their games till it’s gone. That includes console games. Even though I really fucking want Conviction. But I can hold out!
#6
Keivz
26/03/10, 1:43 am
Heh, I never got an email from them. They must know I wasn’t effected, perhaps cuz I’m in the US. Would’ve been nice to get free stuff.
#7
Tomo
26/03/10, 7:41 am
Ubi’s idiocy over all this is just dumbfounding.
I’m expecting them to reveal it’s all one massive elaborate April Fools or something.
#8
vincentw00t
26/03/10, 9:51 am
There’s no pleasing some folks.
#9
Bulk Slash
26/03/10, 11:00 am
@8 Why would this please anyone? The game’s still infected with that ridiculous DRM. The correct response from Ubisoft would have been to release a patch that removes the DRM and lets people who’ve paid for the game enjoy it without restrictions.