Oleg, Luthier, you need to give UBI a damn good bollocking.

[TheGrunch]

What, because you have to think of an account name and password, register them, and then activate the game once before clicking the Offline Mode button? Good luck finding a modern game published by a big publisher that isn't like that or worse.

[Flying Pencil]

Originally Posted by TheGrunch

What, because you have to think of an account name and password, register them, and then activate the game once before clicking the Offline Mode button? Good luck finding a modern game published by a big publisher that isn't like that or worse.

One of those "error encountered, cant authorize" type messages.

But it seems their may be alternate way to activate it, by phone.

[TheGrunch]

Possibly. You can also generate a manual activation code by visiting their website or something similar, I heard somewhere, if you'd like to guarantee it works.