DRM News

Admitting that you’ve erred is hard to do. Ubisoft has sort of done that. This was posted by UK Forum Manager ms-kleaneasy :

Earlier this week we advised members of the forums that Ubisoft was working on a plan to compensate those affected by the recent OSP server downtime.

Ubisoft have started sending out emails to those affected by the downtime so we would ask affected players to keep an eye on your email, not forgetting your spam folders etc.

I would also suggest double checking your profile settings on Ubi.com to ensure your listed email address is up to date and where this is not the case you update your profiles a.s.a.p.

We hope to have more specific information on the exact form the compensation will take soon and will update you all as soon as we have the information

The compensation offered is reported to consist of another game (H.A.W.X., EndWar & Prince of Persia have been named on other sites…amusingly, all of those titles shipped completely DRM free), or perhaps the extra content from the Special Edition of AC2 for owners of the standard version of the game. Blue’s News has posted that, according to an email passed on to them by an affected Silent Hunter 5 player, Shaun White Snowboarding and Prince of Persia are the games he was offered.

Of course, the server DRM system remains in place, so it isn’t as though they are completely stepping away from the ledge here. Also left unclear is exactly how Ubisoft is determining who was affected by the server problems.