Ubisoft apologises to Assassin’s Creed 2 purchasers who found themselves unable to play due to attacks on the verification servers, offering free game downloads in exchange for their forgiveness.
I suppose you don’t even need to forgive Ubisoft in order to take advantage of the special offer, sent via email to Kotakuite Igor, one of the many players affected by the server downtime that made it impossible to connect to Ubisoft as required by its ridiculous new digital rights management system.
For his trouble, Igor now gets to choose between four games – Prince of Persia, Heroes Over Europe, Endwar and H.A.W.X., downloading them directly to his PC without having to bother with the draconian DRM scheme of Ubi’s newer titles.
Is this enough of an apology for you folks?
Stephen Alexander
Friday, March 26, 2010 at 7:22 AMThey should apologize by abolishing their horrid DRM.
legless joe
Friday, March 26, 2010 at 8:13 AMThe code is probably “in russia, DRM manages you”.
Andrew Matthews
Friday, March 26, 2010 at 8:45 AMthat bullcrap, all i got was the black edition exclusive code, which is STUPID CAUSE I ALREADY OWN THE BLACK EDITION!!!
Alex Walker
Friday, March 26, 2010 at 9:05 AMAre they going to offer free games the next time the servers cark it?
Probably not.
Cham
Friday, March 26, 2010 at 7:03 PMmaybe someone will organise an issue with the servers and we’ll find out.
Jeremy
Friday, March 26, 2010 at 9:09 AMNo, that wouldn’t be enough. They should give gamers a refund for part of the purchase price of the game they stopped them playing.
And promise it’ll never happen again BY GETTING RID OF THE STUPID DRM.
Steve0
Friday, March 26, 2010 at 10:56 AMThey shouldn’t have to apologise, nor give away free games. If I were Ubi, I’d forget releasing anything on PC for the welcome they’ve got in an attempt to protect their investment.
Sure, it hasn’t worked well, but at least they’re trying.
Daniel
Friday, March 26, 2010 at 2:01 PMYeah that makes sense. People pay for something legit and they can’t play it, yet Ubisoft shouldn’t have to apologise. They could have made a DRM system that wasn’t rubbish and considered people who don’t have Internet like the States does. GG Steve0.
alinos
Friday, March 26, 2010 at 11:39 AMbut i own those games gimme something else
wepoo
Friday, March 26, 2010 at 11:45 AMPfft the crack is out. Why put up with DRM when game gets cracked within no time after release.
I’m not saying you should pirate it but crack away.
Adam
Friday, March 26, 2010 at 2:51 PMi personally would have bought the game (assuming i hadn’t have bought it and finished it 4 months ago on 360) and cracked it anyway, so i didn’t have to put up the bullpoopies DRM.