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[Marcus Estrada]

If you've been living under a rock since Thursday maybe you wouldn't know about the annual Steam Summer Sale currently going on. However, for all those engaged in it you can be sure that tons of people are buying, downloading, and playing new games during it. There's such a mass of people using Steam that oftentimes the service itself has issues keeping up! However, even when Steam is just fine that doesn't mean all their products are.

Ubisoft game players have been finding this out the hard way during the sale. Ubisoft's UPlay is a DRM method which forces you to log in and be connected to their servers for your entire play session. Although not all the games they publish contain it, many do. Games that have been featured on the sale, such as Anno 2070 do come with UPlay.

With all this attention paid to games on Steam, titles with UPlay just can't handle the stress. Ubisoft's servers are getting far too much traffic and have caused many to be unable to play their games. Apparently, if the server is down it will return an error message about your password being wrong, rather than simply saying the servers are packed. So even if you can manage to get through Steam's servers to buy and download new games for the sale you may not be able to play them straight away thanks to DRM. On the official Ubisoft forums the issue was claimed to be resolved but is that something you can immediately fix? Post a comment here if your Ubisoft games are running fine!

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[Harrison Lee]

I wish Ubisoft would change their DRM system. I really enjoy their games, but the always-online protection is a real pain when you're without internet access or the servers are getting slammed. I've also experienced quite a few times where UPlay just refused to start up, despite my prompting. Takes several tries to get it up and running.

[Skychrono]

I do love the UPlay reward system, though. As a console gamer this doesn't bother me but I definitely *get* the fuss.