Ubisoft Blames DRM Woes on Attacks

Ubisoft has said that its recent digital rights management (DRM) failure is due to an attack made over the weekend which made it difficult for gamers to play Assassin’s Creed II and Silent Hunter 5.

The DRM, which needs players to be connected to the Internet the entire time in order to play a Ubisoft game, has proved very unpopular among the PC gaming community.

Ubisoft wrote on its official Twitter page that 95 percent of players were not affected, but a small group of players attempting to open a game session did receive denial of server errors.

“Apologies to anyone who couldn’t play Assassin’s Creed II or Silent Hunter 5 yesterday. Servers were attacked which limited service from 2:30pm to 9pm Paris time,” says Ubisoft.

There have been many rumours of pirated copies of Assassin's Creed II and Silent Hunter 5 that do not require server authentication, but Ubisoft denies these reports saying that there are no valid cracked versions out yet.

It seems that the possible attack on the servers could have been orchestrated by members of the PC gaming community because of the widely unpopular DRM.