Afgelopen nacht heeft volgens Ubisoft 5% van de gamers die Assassin's Creed II en Silent Hunter 5 wilde spelen hinder ondervonden omdat de severs van Ubisoft onder aanval lag. De genoemde games maken verplicht gebruik van de 'Cloud' beveiliging die op zijn beurt eist dat er een actieve internet verbinding aanwezig is. Volgens diverse bronnen op het IRC zou dit door een groep hackers gedaan zijn om aan te tonen dat deze manier van beveiliging niet gewenst is. Overigens liet Michiel Verheijdt van Ubisoft Nederland aan Tweakers.net weten dat de storing minimaal is en dat de games met Cloud DRM nog steeds niet 100% gekraakt zijn.

Players have reported a number of issues, such as slow logins, missing saved games, lockups accessing saved slots, "cannot connect" messages, etc. At the moment Ubisoft may be keeping out (some) of the warez puppies, but they are also keeping out paying customers. Awesome system! By the way... DRM Cracked In One Day. So sad. Of course, these issues have also affected "Silent Hunter 5". I think I may have read somewhere that the DRM issues were a result of attacks on the servers. Not sure though.

Ubi.Vigil (UK Community Manager): I don't have any clear information on what the issue is since I'm not in the office, but clearly the extended downtime and lengthy login issues are unacceptable, particularly as I've been told these servers are constantly monitored.

I'll do what I can to get more information on what the issue is here first thing tomorrow and push for a resolution and assurance this won't happen in the future. I realise that's not ideal but there's only so much I can do on a weekend as I'm not directly involved with the server side of this system.

Ubi.Vigil (UK Community Manager): Due to exceptional demand, we are currently experiencing difficulties with the Online Service Platform. This does not affect customers who are currently playing, but customers attempting to start a game may experience difficulty in accessing our servers. We are currently working to resolve this issue and apologize for any inconvenience.