The Division’s servers are down with intermittent ‘Sierra,’ ‘Romeo,’ and ‘Mike’ errors

It’s weird that game companies keep celebrating new launches by setting their online servers on fire. You’d think they would eventually learn.

Ubisoft debuted Tom Clancy’s The Division tonight (or early this morning for most of you around the world), which is a new military shooter set in apocalyptic New York, and it is already encountering connection errors. Since this is a “military shooter,” the errors have code names like “Sierra,” “Romeo,” and “Mike” (S, R, and M, respectively, in the style of military radio lingo) along with a string of numbers. It seems like this is a problem with publisher Ubisoft’s servers as well as the Uplay service that connects players across various Ubisoft games.