It seems that the backlash from Ubisoft’s latest foray into the world of digital rights management [DRM] hasn’t gone quite as well as the publisher expected, and it’s making some offers to appease its customers.

Ironic that someone assassinated those game servers...

For those who missed it, last month, Ubisoft released Assassin’s Creed 2 and Silent Hunter 5 with the same, fairly heavy-handed DRM. Essentially, players are required to have a constantly active internet connection to play the games; if your connection is interrupted, you’ll find yourself booted from your game. Unpleasant stuff altogether, but it might have gone better for Ubisoft if not for the fact that the servers to which the DRM phones home came under attack earlier on in the month.

For the duration of the attack, users were unable to play their games, which puts Ubisoft in something of a sticky situation. Now though, it seems that Ubisoft is attempting to rectify the situation by being kind to those of its customers who might have been effected.

According to Eurogamer, those who have bought the game are reporting that they’re being offered a free chunk of content previously restricted to the ‘Black Edition’ of the game, which offered exclusive downloadable content [DLC]. Apparently, users have received a message, which simply says,

“Following the recent temporary game server outages to some Assassin’s Creed 2 players on PC only, we would like to reward your patience if you have experienced any problems by offering you some additional content – previously only available with special editions.”

Still no word on whether or not similar offers have been extended to those who were stuck without the ability to play Silent Hunter 5… Ubisoft may simply have figured that fans of the Silent Hunter series were already well used to doing very little for hours on end, and may simply not have noticed the outage