A few weeks ago we brought word that Ubisoft hate PC gamers and in an veiled attempt to not sell any games are going to attach the dumbest DRM to all their games. The DRM requires you to be connected to their servers at all times. Ignoring the fact this means you’re effectively renting the game from them rather than buying it (when they pull the plug on the servers, screw you), PC Gamer confirms it makes for a potentially game-breaking experience.

They were sent Assassin’s Creed 2 and Settlers VII for review and made sure to check with Ubisoft that their copies have the same DRM as the boxed retail versions. They then confirmed that if your internet connection drops at any time whilst you’re playing the game, you are instantly booted out of the game and your progress lost. No auto-saves, no pausing whilst you fix your connection, nothing.

The software also can’t differentiate between a normal network error and the DRM servers being sketchy. If ever Ubisoft need to update their servers and take them off-line, or if the servers hiccup during a big new release, even those playing single player games will be kicked out their game.

All of this is in the name of stopping piracy. I guess we’ll just see how well that works out for Ubisoft when the PC version of Assassin’s Creed 2 leaks onto the torrent sites a week before launch.