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Originally Posted by Letum
Not so long ago Ubi messed up a game patch which left users who had
paid for and downloaded a game unable to play it.
Did they ever release a patch to fix the game so they could play it again.....nope.
Can someone post the name of the game for me; I forgot.
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The game is Rainbow Six Vegas II.
You could either buy it on DVD or buy it online thru a service called D2D
(Direct 2 Download).
With the latest patch, you must have the DVD in the drive to play.
Of course, if you bought the game thru D2D you cannot play anymore.
Hundreds of people went to the Ubisoft forum to ask for help. Nothing worked and Ubisoft clearly explained they would not change the latest patch to fix the problem.
Some people started giving links to a No-CD patch from a hacker group called "Reloaded". Since this is illegal, those posts were edited and removed.
After a few days, Ubisoft did post a No-CD patch to fix the problem. People downloaded it, and it worked. The people that bought the game thru D2D could play again.
But someone was curious. He had downloaded the Reloaded No-CD patch and found out that the Ubisoft No-CD patch had exactly the same size, just the name was different.
So he used an hexadecimal editor to check and surprise, surprise...
Ubisoft was distributing as a fix an illegal No-CD crack from Reloaded.
Yes. Ubisoft themselves were distributing a crack from a hacker's group to fix a problem they created and for which they had no solution.
Link :
http://www.n4g.com/pc/News-171867.aspx
After the scandal was revealed, Ubisoft quickly deleted any link to the patch and the D2D people today with the latest game patch cannot play the game either solo or online, and Ubisoft remains silent and doesn't care.