It's been around 10 hours, and the Ubisoft servers are down across the globe. Ubisoft said they are currently investigating an issue affecting all Ubisoft Services, gamers may be unable to connect to games or services while the degradation is ongoing. And their team is currently working on a fix.
We're aware of the issues affecting multiple games, as well as our Ubisoft Forums and various services. Our teams are working towards resolving this ASAP. We'll update you here with further information once they're available.
— Ubisoft Support (@UbisoftSupport) March 3, 2022
Gamers are prompted with a screen telling them “unable to start the game‘.
Many suspect that Russia is behind all this, they are arguing that Ubisoft have donated €200,000 ($223,000) to the Ukrainian Red Cross and Save the Children and made a big deal of it online. And this is what got them down.