Ubisoft will be transitioning and upgrading its servers on February 7 which will end up having a bad side effect of making a few of their DRM-enabled games become unplayable until the company creates a patch.
Also confirmed is all online multiplayer games regardless of their DRM status will also be unplayable due to the complete switch although the majority will only be down for at least a day.
The issue appears to affect mostly recent PC/Mac games they have released but no news was given if it affects older titles or if those were fixed in preparation for the switch.
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“Ubisoft will be transitioning the hosting of many of its online services from a third-party data center to a new facility,” said the company. “During the transition, some Ubisoft services and online games will not be available. We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience. This move ultimately will help us improve the maintenance of our infrastructure and deliver better uptime and greatly improved services for our customers.”
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The biggest issue comes with Ubisoft not promising when the patches or fixes to update the DRM games will arrive. As well as the amount of time it will take to update all the servers due to Ubisoft themselves unsure of how long it will take.
The list of recent games confirmed to be unplayable:
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* Assassin’s Creed -- Mac
* Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2 -- PC
* Might & Magic: Heroes VI -- PC
* Splinter Cell: Conviction -- Mac
* The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom -- PC
* The Settlers -- Mac
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The list of games confirmed to be playable:
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* Anno 2070 -- PC
* Assassin’s Creed: Revelations -- OnLive, PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
* Driver: San Francisco -- OnLive, PC, PS3, 360
* The Settlers Online -- Web-based
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