{"id":701975,"date":"2010-03-26T10:30:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T14:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003760"},"modified":"2010-03-26T02:21:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T06:21:51","slug":"ubisoft-apologizes-for-hosing-pc-gamers-by-offering-free-downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/701975","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft Apologizes For Hosing PC Gamers By Offering Free Downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/ubi-thumb-158x105-38616.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Ubisoft had the <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/stay-online-while-you-play-assassins-creed-2-on-pc-or-ubisoft-will-end-you.html\">fantastic idea<\/a> of forcing gamers of Assassin&#8217;s Creed 2 to stay online while they played, to ensure via DRM that players weren&#8217;t pirating their wares. Then hackers <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/ubisoft-authentication-servers-go-down-no-one-can-play-anything.html\">brought down the servers<\/a>, rendering the game unplayable.<\/p>\n<p>Now the publisher is apologizing by <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5502062\/ubi-apologizes-for-asaassins-creed-2-pc-downtime-with-free-games?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kotaku%2Ffull+%28Kotaku%29&#038;utm_content=Google+Reader\">tossing players some free games<\/a>, Kotaku reports.<\/p>\n<p>Kotaku says Ubisoft is emailing an offer to affected gamers, letting some choose the downloadable content for Assassin&#8217;s Creed 2, while offering others downloads of Prince of Persia, Heroes Over Europe, Endwar or H.A.W.X.<\/p>\n<p>If you were affected by the server shutdown, let us know if you&#8217;re happy with the make-good offer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5502062\/ubi-apologizes-for-asaassins-creed-2-pc-downtime-with-free-games?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kotaku%2Ffull+%28Kotaku%29&#038;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Ubi Apologizes For Assassin&#8217;s Creed 2 PC Downtime With Free Games<\/a> [Kotaku]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft had the fantastic idea of forcing gamers of Assassin&#8217;s Creed 2 to stay online while they played, to ensure via DRM that players weren&#8217;t pirating their wares. Then hackers brought down the servers, rendering the game unplayable. Now the publisher is apologizing by tossing players some free games, Kotaku reports. Kotaku says Ubisoft is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2WCb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}