
It just happens, and nobody seems quite sure why. It doesn’t matter whether you’re running the game through Steam or not, and it doesn’t seem related to motherboards, graphics cards, or… well, anything. It happens whether you have firewalls turned on or off. It seems to occur regardless of your ISP, router, or router settings (as it occurs even with ports forwarded correctly, and occasionally will work on one computer in a house, but not on another). Right now, there appears to be no great consistency in possible causes. Please try again later” when trying to do anything online in the game, from Spies vs Mercs and co-op to just redeeming your pre-order codes, I feel your pain. If you’re getting “The Splinter Cell Blacklist service is not available at this time. Part of the reason for this is that, um, I can’t actually get on the multiplayer.Īnd, judging by an 18-page thread on the Ubisoft forums – as well as a number of spin-off threads – I’m not alone in this. We haven’t yet put up a review of Splinter Cell: Blacklist, known around these parts as The Latest Adventures of Sam Fisher (But Not Michael Ironside).
