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Ubisoft Servers Torpedoed Once Again

By pete_gallagher

Ubisoft's DRM scheme may have angered the wrong group of people, as the software publisher's servers were attacked again last night.

The company, who also experienced attacks on their servers over the weekend, took to their Twitter account 'about 19 hours ago' (in Twitter time) to announce, 'Our servers are under attack again. Some gamers are experiencing trouble signing in. We're working on it and will keep you posted.'

About five hours ago the company reported that, 'Login servers were partially reestablished at 10pm CET and fully restored at 1am CET. The attack affected only those trying to login.'

Ubisoft's DRM scheme, utilized on the current releases Assassin's Creed II and Silent Hunter 5, requires an Internet connection to launch and play a game. Not being able to access Ubi's login servers means that gamers would be unable to play their title.

In responding to the problems with its servers over the weekend, Ubi claimed that '95% of players were not affected.' They also initially tried blaming their server woes on 'exceptional demand,' before coming clean and admitting that they were the target of hackers.

Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on March 09, 2010 (boomark / email).