Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again

[Mar 08, 2010, 6:37 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Ubisoft tweets that their DRM servers are experiencing another denial of service attack, and users are having trouble playing, as was the case over the weekend. Word is: "Our servers are under attack again. Some gamers are experiencing trouble signing in. We're working on it and will keep you posted."

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Mar 8, 2010, 22:11

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Prez wrote on Mar 8, 2010, 21:22: Maybe someone could point out a better explanation. This is all I've got, despite how crazy it sounds. Corporate culture being what it is, I doubt it's intentionally malevolent. Far more likely some analyst puke somewhere determined that there was no correlation between intrusive DRM and sales. In fact, I would imagine that Steam was used as an illustration of this point. However, I'm also sure that Steam has patented it's DRM scheme, thus making outright copycatting difficult. Therefore, wanting to mimic Steam (while being more "robust" against cracking), and not having an issue with invasive DRM, they decided to set up this "reasonable" sounding system. After hearing the head of AT&T publicly claim that it's a travesty to use bandwidth that you pay for to generate a profit (google et al), Starforce, and all the other corporate idiocy, it's hard to believe that UbiSoft is being nefarious. Just corporately idiotic. I'm going to go with Ubi taking the "you'll get over it" point of view.

		Date	Subject	Author
	1.	Mar 8, 17:39	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	DangerDog
	2.	Mar 8, 17:43	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	ForgedReality
	3.	Mar 8, 17:45	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Wolfen
	4.	Mar 8, 17:50	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	vermin
	5.	Mar 8, 17:51	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Iridium
	14.	Mar 8, 18:25	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Scottso
	16.	Mar 8, 18:31	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	BurntSoul
	17.	Mar 8, 18:42	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	BurntSoul
	18.	Mar 8, 18:44	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Prez
	20.	Mar 8, 18:45	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	BurntSoul
	21.	Mar 8, 18:52	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	raVen
	22.	Mar 8, 19:01	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Overon
	25.	Mar 8, 19:25	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Drayth
	30.	Mar 8, 20:04	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Warskull
	31.	Mar 8, 20:28	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Tumbler
	41.	Mar 8, 22:09	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Creston
	34.	Mar 8, 21:14	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	I've Got The News Blues
	47.	Mar 9, 01:29	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	raVen
	52.	Mar 9, 02:13	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	I've Got The News Blues
	57.	Mar 9, 02:40	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	raVen
	60.	Mar 9, 02:58	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	I've Got The News Blues
	15.	Mar 8, 18:27	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Ventura
	19.	Mar 8, 18:44	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	nin
	6.	Mar 8, 17:51	Internet Needed	headkase
	7.	Mar 8, 17:52	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Mashiki Amiketo
	27.	Mar 8, 19:30	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	agpc
	28.	Mar 8, 19:38	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	BurntSoul
	8.	Mar 8, 17:55	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	ForgedReality
	9.	Mar 8, 17:57	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	necrosis
	13.	Mar 8, 18:24	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Akuinnen
	10.	Mar 8, 18:06	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Marvin T. Martian
	11.	Mar 8, 18:08	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	xXBatmanXx
	12.	Mar 8, 18:15	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	ASJD
	23.	Mar 8, 19:17	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Vulkan
	24.	Mar 8, 19:23	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Cutter
	26.	Mar 8, 19:27	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	JohnnyRotten
	29.	Mar 8, 19:58	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	ForgedReality
	32.	Mar 8, 20:36	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Dev
	35.	Mar 8, 21:18	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	I've Got The News Blues
	38.	Mar 8, 21:24	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Dev
	39.	Mar 8, 21:27	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	I've Got The News Blues
	40.	Mar 8, 21:31	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Prez
	46.	Mar 9, 01:23	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Warskull
	49.	Mar 9, 01:42	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Prez
	33.	Mar 8, 20:54	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	ForgedReality
	36.	Mar 8, 21:22	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Prez
	37.	Mar 8, 21:24	No Refunds	I've Got The News Blues
>>	42.	Mar 8, 22:11	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Flatline
	43.	Mar 8, 22:21	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	wtf_man
	44.	Mar 8, 23:39	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Creston
	45.	Mar 9, 01:05	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	ForgedReality
	48.	Mar 9, 01:34	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	I've Got The News Blues
	51.	Mar 9, 01:56	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	ForgedReality
	53.	Mar 9, 02:26	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	I've Got The News Blues
	56.	Mar 9, 02:34	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	.net_Drifter
	58.	Mar 9, 02:41	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	GunSpeed
	59.	Mar 9, 02:46	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	.net_Drifter
	63.	Mar 9, 04:19	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	GunSpeed
	64.	Mar 9, 04:50	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	.net_Drifter
	50.	Mar 9, 01:46	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Dev
	54.	Mar 9, 02:28	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	.net_Drifter
	55.	Mar 9, 02:34	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	GunSpeed
	61.	Mar 9, 04:04	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	KilrathiAce
	62.	Mar 9, 04:06	Re: Ubisoft DRM Servers Under Fire Again	Muscular Beaver