Ubisoft game outage caused by hackers
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The bad news just keeps piling up for Ubisoft and its 'uncrackable' DRM. It now appears that the company's fiendish plan of forcing its customers to play only whilst connected to the Internet has spurred the hackers into action, forcing the company to apologise to disgruntled gamers who couldn't log onto the DRM verification servers. "Ubisoft would like to apologise to anyone who could not play ACII or SH5 yesterday," the company said in a statement to Eurogamer this...
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