Did Ubisoft just deactivate all german copies of SH5?

[Nisgeis]

Originally Posted by Adam84

Ubisoft have been making WW2 games for years, how on earth did they make this mistake?

Blizzard managed to do the same thing:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/2...zi_Symbols.php

Originally Posted by SteamWake

So now they cant play the game untill they return a manual?

Un freakin believable I wonder how many are right now looking into hacks?

Damn Ubi your product launch is full of fail !

The news is all over the web, but it's all repeats of one source, which says that the Collector's Edition only is affected. This has caused some to speculate that it's the manual that is the offending article, but it's possible that the offending article is in fact in the game (part of extended skins or just a localisation process that was missed), in which case disabling the game is their best option. There's jail time involved with such a crime. Does the standard German version come with a manual?