[Dr. Boogie]

It's a problem mainly because it's far more restrictive than the occasional checks more and more games have now, which in turn were more restrictive than the old methods of just entering in a CD key.

Bad weather could knock out your connection, or your router might need to be reset. Either way, you get kicked out of your game. That's just on your end; if Ubisoft has a problem with their servers, that means you're SOL until whenever they can get their shit together. In short, it means that people wanting to play single player games would be subject to many of the same hassles you'd expect from an MMO.

That's just the connection problems. The other problem is that, while they claim this is to combat piracy, I can't imagine it doing anything other than promoting it. Even if you decide to buy a copy, you can just download a crack for it that bypasses all their efforts and makes the whole thing an exercise in futility. Also, Ubisoft has traditionally had a great deal of trouble porting their games to the PC, but that's just my personal experience.

Maybe it's just an experiment to see if they can drive themselves out of business.