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Ubisoft caught pirating the pirates

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  • 20-07-2008 12:12am
    #1
    L31mr0d
    Registered Users Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭


    Just catching wind of this now, don't know if anyone else has already heard about it.

    Basically Ubisoft released a patch to fix some direct to drive issues with Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, but it was found that this patch was actually just a rebranded "Reloaded" no-cd crack.

    Whats so hilarious about this is that by posting links to their official patch they where going against their own TOS by posting links to a crack.

    My handle on it is that some lazy programmer over at Ubi, instead of fixing the problem just got this no-cd crack, rebranded it (badly) then released. Someones head is going to roll for this SNAFU

    http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/1991064316/m/1381029176/p/1

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    #2
    kaimera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,396 ✭✭✭✭kaimera


    Saw that tonight as well;

    lulz.

    glad i got it for 360 now


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    #3
    Sherifu
    Registered Users Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Yep, read that during the week. Slightly hypocritical.


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    we should do to them what we did to creative!

    ... wait..


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    #5
    Jack Sheehan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,693 ✭✭✭Jack Sheehan


    Ooooh, that's embarrassing. then again Ubisoft get a free pass on anything from me until Far Cry 2 comes out.


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    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Wait, so they released a patch that was essentially a no-cd crack? Why?


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    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,098 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    They are nice? Warcraft II did it finally, was so happy.


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    you bastard... now I want a game of warcraft II


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    MooseJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    wow epic fail, someones gonna lose their job


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    kaimera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,396 ✭✭✭✭kaimera


    what game was it where the dev actually encouraged the use of a no cd/dvd crack?

    It was a while back; I may be badly mistaken tho.


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    #11
    i_am_dogboy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭i_am_dogboy


    You'd be surprised by how common such plagarism is in the big bad world of commercial software, I've seen it loads of times, and I've yet to see someone lose a job over it.


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    noodler
    Registered Users Posts: 26,400 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    I do not understand this topic.


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    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,098 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Princess Innocent Knickers wrote: »
    you bastard... now I want a game of warcraft II

    Ah some game, made some great maps in it.


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    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,016 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Zillah wrote: »
    Wait, so they released a patch that was essentially a no-cd crack? Why?

    The NO CD Crack removed the Safedisk copy protection, like most copy protections, they tend to screw up games so this no cd patch obviously fixed many issiues as it had the copy protection stripped :)

    Nick

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    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,098 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    i don't know much about games but why couldn't he jsut remove the bit easily without copying it?
    just comment out that shizzle!


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    #16
    Ciaran500
    Registered Users Posts: 8,225 ✭✭✭Ciaran500


    What happened was that Ubi latest patch for R6 added the copy protection back onto the game for people who had bought the game and legally downloaded it. People complained and this was put up as a fix. But I doubt this was a devs work, they would have access to the already clean exe for the game.


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    #17
    OK-Cancel-Apply
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,528 ✭✭✭OK-Cancel-Apply


    Ah I doubt heads will roll - there'll probably be a few lulz in the office though. :P


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