Ubisoft claims an 'attack' on its servers resulted in the failure Assassin's Creed 2 and Silent Hunter 5 DRM over the weekend, but says that only a very small percentage of its users were actually affected by the outage. Comment View Article

Ubisoft has revealed that yesterday's server outage was caused not by 'exceptional demand' but an attack.

Bad news for PC gamers looking to play some Assassin's Creed 2 or Silent Hunter 5 today: Ubisoft has reported that its DRM servers are suffering from another 'attack' and that people are once again having trouble logging in to play their games. Comment View Article

Ubisoft's new DRM of enforced account logins to play singleplayer PC titles was already contentious among gamers, but now its nuclear. Servers have crashed, leaving many consumers unable to play Assassin's Creed II at all. Ubi UK community manager admits it's 'unacceptable'

Filed under: Downloads, Action, Simulation, Assassin's Creed 2 On Sunday we reported that the 'Always On' DRM servers for Ubisoft games like Assassin's Creed 2 and Silent Hunter 5 were down, affecting gameplay and logins for people that owned both games. It now seems that things are back to 'normal' on the servers but Ubisoft is blaming the down

Ubisoft's DRM servers unreachable as gamers try to play Assassin's Creed II and Silent Hunter V. Ubisoft Digital rights management Assassin's Creed DRM game

Hey, Ubisoft: when you force users to maintain an internet connection even when playing a singleplayer game offline, you'd damn well better make sure you hold up your end of the bargain. Having recently implemented a wildly unpopular new form of digital rights management for its PC titles, over the last few days Ubisoft released two key games for

Ubisoft servers used to authenticate 'Assassin's Creed 2' and 'Silent Hunter 5' players went offline for a time on Sunday, and the outage reignited controversy surrounding the company's new DRM protection. Their response primarily downplayed the number of users affected by the crippled service and clearly identified the incident as an 'attack,' but it also

Those playing Assassin's Creed 2 on the PC got a rude reminder of DRM's pitfalls when the servers that authenticate the game went down. Many complained on the company's official forum, and tempers ran hot. Remember: the game has to be in contact with Ubisoft's servers to work; if the connection is lost, the game shuts down. Ars Technica

Ubisoft today offered up a bit of an explanation to those of you on PCs yesterday who were desperately trying to play the publisher's games with the cumbersome new DRM Assassin's Creed 2 and Silent Hunter 5 only to find yourselves unable to authenticate said DRM because of the outage. Apparently it was (gasp!) hackers! 'Servers were attacked which limited