Jean Rennan

Picture this: 4-4 match point in ranked, you’re the top of your team and the round is just starting. Site setup just finished and the round is about to start when suddenly, you can’t move. It takes 10 seconds for the latency and packet loss symbols to appear. The last hour of your life, your blood, sweat, and tears put into the one match of your day. What could have been a momentous victory, and great end to a hard day’s work, has now been wiped away. All it takes is a single soul to be connected to your wifi for Ubisoft to decide your connection isn’t good enough. The dreaded error — lost connection — pops up. You are sent back to the lobby with an hour long ban and a -50% renown penalty, with no chance to rejoin this late into the match. Now, staring at the yellow sanction banner atop your screen, you write a message to Ubisoft: “I’m sorry. Please let me play again, I’m hopeless without this dreadful game in my life”.