The age of ‘always online’ has spawned yet another wave of anger – this time with Ubisoft Connect (formerly Uplay) having some kind of massive outage that has left PC players of Ubisoft games high and dry.
So for all the Assassin’s Creed Shadows fans, you’ll need to find something else to do for a while.
At least in the age of ‘always online’, there are a plethora of tools – both official and third party – that will report what might be happening at any given moment.
I am no network engineer, but even I can tell you that terms like ‘outage’ and ‘degraded’ in regards to an online service isn’t a good look.
Ubisoft Connect down only on PC... pic.twitter.com/A5OsOEMmqR
— Yellow (@Damien_Aravena) April 24, 2025
So of course, people are justifiably mad. When it comes to games with a proper online component, such as multiplayer or co-op services, you can understand why a network outage will kill off your chances to play.
But the PC users who are trying to play single player games are experiencing the full brunt of why ‘always online’ kind of ‘always sucks’:
Ubisoft Connect has to be the worst launcher of any game dev.
— Nel, The Internet's Dad (@Nelstar15) April 24, 2025
Like I've never had these types of problems with any other. I just wanna play the Division man - stop making me use this ass app. pic.twitter.com/x9i5E1EUK9
@UbisoftSupport
— Mayki | GTI 🔥🚀🌛🏴☠️👿OtherSide👿🏴☠️ (@MaykiGTIX) April 24, 2025
Launch error with Ubisoft Connect
Error dolphin-028
Your suggestions include clearing the cache, changing the IP address, and completely uninstalling the launcher, but nothing works.
Could you please provide a working solution? pic.twitter.com/cybCxRRyzM
Why does Ubisoft Connect always suck absolute ass. Can't even play a game I fucking paid for. @Ubisoft @UbisoftSupport fucking unacceptable, remove Ubisoft Connect completely
— Fume (@FumeGamingg) March 31, 2025
If you can't tell i'm so mad and sick of their shit pic.twitter.com/qzNsqa5A1w
At the time of writing, the ‘outage reports’ have started trending downwards as of the last 30 or so minutes – but social media posts are still coming in with people angry that they are stuck doing some frustratingly pointless troubleshooting for an issue that seems to be widespread.
In short – if you are in the US, and trying to launch a game via Ubisoft Connect, maybe step away and try again in a few minutes. Or an hour.
Known throughout the interwebs simply as M0D3Rn, Ash is bad at video games. An old guard gamer who suffers from being generally opinionated, it comes as no surprise that he is both brutally loyal and yet, fiercely whimsical about all things electronic. On occasion will make a youtube video that actually gets views. Follow him on YouTube @Bad at Video Games
