If you were wondering why there’s been no Wot I Thinkery of the recently-released Might & Magic X: Legacy on this here website, it’s because Games For Windows Live’s heir apparent Uplay has been preventing me from logging in and playing the game. I am not alone in this – it appears anyone using major UK ISP BT Infinity to provide their broadband is blocked from accessing Uplay, and even the Ubisoft website. This means any game which requires Uplay (including a raft of recent Assassin’s Creeds, Far Cries, Tom Clancies and more) can’t be played. Some of those affected have enjoyed the makeshift mercy of Uplay’s offline mode; I and many others have not.

Trawling through support forums reveals that Ubisoft have blamed BT (though subsequently deleted the tweet in which they did so), BT have blamed Ubisoft, no-one really knows what’s going on and a fix could be any amount of time in arriving.(more…)