Kotaku | 13.07.2026 16:59
The arguments against DRM, especially those forms demanding an internet connection to run a game, can start to feel very theoretical in a world that’s increasingly better connected. While still deeply galling to those in rural communities, less online nations, or in any of the many circumstances where internet access simply isn’t available, for most people most of the time, it’s an objectionable principle rather than an actual impediment. Right up until, that is, it’s the other end of that access that goes down. So it was that over the weekend, when Ubisoft Connect on PC went down, Ubisoft customers say they discovered they couldn’t play their freshly purchased Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, nor indeed any other Ubisoft games.
