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Yes, I’m posting twice in a row. That shatter you hear in the distance? One of the seals of the apocalypse.
Recently, Ubisoft issued a fix for Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 so that people using D2D could patch the game without having to wait for the D2D folks to rework it for them. The problem? Ubisoft used an illegal No-CD crack from the group RELOADED. Here’s the link for the forum post, but I don’t know how long it’ll work for.
This is absolutely inexcusable. Not only is the entire argument on piracy a fallacy, but a company which bans people for discussion of No-CD cracks on their forums turns around and issues one as a fix. Not to mention that they could make one themselves.
I hate arguments which are non-issues in the first place. But I hate hypocrisy even more. When you combine the two…well, it’s like the best of two toilets after the World Chili Dog Championship. A shitty situation.
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20 July 2008 at 12:08 pm
It looks like the release of the Reloaded crack was done by a person fairly low in the food chain at Ubi, without permission from the higher ups. As they say themselves, they don’t /need/ to release a no-CD crack even if they wanted to, since they have the full unprotected .exe already. This whole thing smacks of a guy in tech support being tired of listening to people bitch about a problem that is really not their fault (since it is with D2D, not Ubisoft) and making an immensely stupid decision to try and lighten his workload.
I actually feel kinda bad for Ubisoft on this one. They actually have very few choices when it comes to things like this. It’s a company with stock on the market, which means even if they know that the DRM is causing more problems than it solves they’re still ultimately bound by what affect their decisions have on their stock. It’s what the shareholders think that defines what the company can and can’t do, not what the customers think or even what the employees know to be right or wrong. Things like this happen when the employees know that the upper management hasn’t got a clue, but can’t change anything.
Maybe I’m reading too much into this, but I’ve seen similar situations before and meh. It leads to all sorts of stupid.