Im not the least bit sympathetic to anyone who purchase anything from Ubisoft or any game containing heavy handed DRM/bloatCrap.

Heres why:

"According to numerous reports from prospective players of the game (Assassin's Creed 2), Ubisoft's DRM authentification servers have crashed, forcing some players to suffer lengthy login periods when booting up Assassin's Creed 2, and locking some folks out of the game entirely"
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/07/ubiso ... s-creed-2/

http://www.gossipgamers.com/ubisoft-drm ... s-go-down/

http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/0 ... rs-Go-Down

The best part about this is the pirates actually get to play the game and legitimate consumers can't! Ubisoft 0 Pirates 1
To Ubisoft and the few people who decided to purchase Assassin's Creed 2 I give you this well deserved ...

Remember....

This is why I haven't bought AC2 yet. Well, that and I'm a cheapskate. Surprised the crackers haven't come up with a good crack yet.