For those that don't know Ubisoft recently released Silent Hunter V and Assassins Creed II with insanely heavy handed protection built in.
The DRM requires you to be online at all times even though they're both single player games because it sends packets of data from the Ubisoft server not only verifying the games authenticity but also sending critical mission data that is required for the game to work at all.
That means that if Ubisofts servers go down you cannot play the game and if you're allready playing the game and the servers go down it will immediately kick you out. While Assassins Creed II is all sorts of awesome it's priced $10 higher than usual games and Silent Hunter V was released in a criminally unfinished state that the good people over at the SubSim forums are having to fix with a myriad of mods themselves.
So far the Ubisoft servers have been down numerous times at one point for most of the day. This is mainly down to a massive attack on Ubisofts servers by the masses of angry people who are pissed off with Ubisofts Nazi protection and their business model in general.
Up to this point Ubi's DRM has held firm and has not been cracked for either game. There has been tons of fake cracks but everyone is really waiting for a proper scene release fromo Razor1911 or SKiDROW.
The latter (if it was them) hacked Ubisofts website the other day and slapped this message on Ubi's own site:
The Drama continues!
The DRM requires you to be online at all times even though they're both single player games because it sends packets of data from the Ubisoft server not only verifying the games authenticity but also sending critical mission data that is required for the game to work at all.
That means that if Ubisofts servers go down you cannot play the game and if you're allready playing the game and the servers go down it will immediately kick you out. While Assassins Creed II is all sorts of awesome it's priced $10 higher than usual games and Silent Hunter V was released in a criminally unfinished state that the good people over at the SubSim forums are having to fix with a myriad of mods themselves.
So far the Ubisoft servers have been down numerous times at one point for most of the day. This is mainly down to a massive attack on Ubisofts servers by the masses of angry people who are pissed off with Ubisofts Nazi protection and their business model in general.
Up to this point Ubi's DRM has held firm and has not been cracked for either game. There has been tons of fake cracks but everyone is really waiting for a proper scene release fromo Razor1911 or SKiDROW.
The latter (if it was them) hacked Ubisofts website the other day and slapped this message on Ubi's own site:
The Drama continues!
