My girlfriend's in Portugal for her work for a week. Even though I work 6 out of the 7 days (and 10hour or more shifts each time), it still means I've got some more gaming time. Looking around, I decided to try and go back to Heroes of Might and Magic VI - when it came out I played it for a little bit but never quite got into it - there was another game coming out at the same time, though I don't remember what....Maybe Diablo III?
Anyway, the game still starts....In Offline mode. With all ports open, Firewall off, Defender off, my computer completely open to anything and anyone (brrr), it still simply won't connect to their servers. Which means no access to DLC, no access to the expansion, no acces to bonuses, no acces to pretty much anything but local skirmish games.
Well whoop dee doo.
Screw you Ubisoft, Uplay is really the most shitty piece of software around. As far as I can tell, "online support" ended, but they never posted they took the servers and cloud off line. Heck, I don't really see why they should - the game requires Steam AND Uplay, it's connected all over anyway, Uplay tells me I do own al lthe DLC....but it just won't unlock/connect in game. Blergh.
DRM sucks, gaming clients suck, all this useless hassle sucks. What happened to "here's the CD, just plop it in".
Anyway, the game still starts....In Offline mode. With all ports open, Firewall off, Defender off, my computer completely open to anything and anyone (brrr), it still simply won't connect to their servers. Which means no access to DLC, no access to the expansion, no acces to bonuses, no acces to pretty much anything but local skirmish games.
Well whoop dee doo.
Screw you Ubisoft, Uplay is really the most shitty piece of software around. As far as I can tell, "online support" ended, but they never posted they took the servers and cloud off line. Heck, I don't really see why they should - the game requires Steam AND Uplay, it's connected all over anyway, Uplay tells me I do own al lthe DLC....but it just won't unlock/connect in game. Blergh.
DRM sucks, gaming clients suck, all this useless hassle sucks. What happened to "here's the CD, just plop it in".