Ubisoft Connect Outage Knocks Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Offline for 1 Hour on PC
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Updated · Eurogamer.net · Jul 13
Ubisoft Connect Outage Knocks Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Offline for 1 Hour on PC
3 articles · Updated · Eurogamer.net · Jul 13
Summary
About 1 hour of Ubisoft Connect downtime left Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced unplayable on PC over the weekend, even for users trying to launch it offline.
Ubisoft's launcher doubles as a DRM layer on PC, and its already unreliable offline mode appears to have failed when the service went down instead of preserving access after prior authentication.
15,000-plus upvotes gathered on a Steam and Reddit thread about the issue, with players saying other Ubisoft Connect games have shown the same behavior.
Ubisoft had not addressed the outage on social channels or in the forum threads, adding to scrutiny around a release that already drew backlash over cosmetic microtransactions costing more than the base game.