Oh, hi there, Ubisoft.

Look, I know you want to keep the pirates’ paws off your games, and you implemented some crazy DRM to keep only paying customers in the loop, but it seems to be backfiring a little bit for you.

What? Oh, yeah, we know you fixed the game so you can start again at the point where the Internet connection dropped off. That was awfully nice of you. I mean, I don’t see why you didn’t do that from the beginning, but whatever! We’ve gotten past that.

Assassin’s Creed II requires an Internet connection to play, yes? So it can continually check in to your servers to make sure the player’s copy of the game is legit, correct? So anyone without Internet access can basically kiss playing your games goodbye and you don’t care.

It seems that you’ve left one little piece out of the puzzle, though.

If you’re going to make us play by your crazy rules, MAKE SURE YOUR DRM SERVERS ARE ACTUALLY UP AND RUNNING, OKAY? People paid for the game, they ought to get to play it! It’s not that unreasonable of a request, is it?

Thanks for letting us get that off our chests. We’d appreciate it if this didn’t happen again. (Or if you only required one activation instead of constant contact, but that might just be asking too much – I’m not sure.)