uPlay Client - Connection Lost?! Please Help, Tech Support stumped.

CagedAlchemist

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For several weeks now I have been getting an obnoxious error over and over again saying:

"Connection Lost...There seems to be a problem with your Internet connection. Please check your settings or switch to offline mode."

I have never had an isssue using uPlay before, so what's changed since then? I've installed a VPN recently...but I've disabled it and it didn't change the outcome and it's not my password that's wrong because I can sign-in through their website just fine!

I've added every thing with uPlay in it's name to the firewall and even did a fresh install of the client. I also tried disabling my firewall and anti-virus with no joy. Just the same message over and over again.

At this point I was fed up and called Ubisoft support. The first person I talked to sent me an e-mail with instruction for adding port forwarding for uPlay, flushing the DNS, and resetting the windows hosts file. Even doing a selective boot using MSConfig.

Still nothing!!!

I called Ubisoft Support back and they were taking me through the usual steps as usual and they were stumped to why I can't connect. They said they would forward the issue to be investigate down the line.

I have now been swapping emails back and forth with Ubisoft Support for about a week now and today they told me to un-install the uPlay client, delete all the residual files and registry keys, and re-install uPlay....Like I haven't tried that before, though I tried it anyways with what little hope I had left.

The same message.....

"Connection Lost...There seems to be a problem with your Internet Connection. Please check your settings or switch to offline mode."

Will I never play a Ubisoft game again? I can't even use offline mode anymore...
Has anybody here experience this before? Any suggestions, a solution to my issue?
 

schray

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Check Windows Firewall, isn't there a ban on uplay.exe? If there is, delete the entry
(also you may have tried, but maybe not: in uplay settings you can find an option "always start offline" disable it, as proxy as well)

Usually cracks from pirated versions of uplay games making a firewall entry, to avoid drm check.
Funny to read that how many people have this problem, and ubisoft has no idea how to solve it, because they doesn't think, there would be a ban in the firewall settings. No judging, pirating a ubisoft game is pretty common, I heard that lots of people bought a game and can't play it because the DRM, so they had to pirate it...