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 Send to email | Ubisoft Used Pirate Hack to Fix Rainbow Six Vegas 2 [Ruh Roh] in Ruh roh rainbow six vegas 2 Rubi doo Top Ubisoft |  By Owen Good
el 19-Jul-2008 |  So Rainbow Six Vegas 2 was patched earlier this month with a slew of upgrades and gameplay changes, all of it free. Unfortunately, it also inserted a disc check ? big problem for those who got the game via digital download.
The fix? I mean the official frickin' fix? The Register says an Ubisoft employee uploaded a fix to the company's support site that was actually a hack written by software pirates to defeat the disc-check. Yeah, Ruh-roh, Rubi. And presumably that guy has stepped in Ubi-doo, as the company removed the executable and is "thoroughly investigating the matter." Users on Ubisoft's official forum ? where discussion of these cracks is forbidden and punished ? alerted the company to the fact that R6Vegas2_fix.zip was actually a cracked version of the executable modified by piratcy group Reloaded. That begat some ironic, if not amusing, responses. We're looking into this further as this was not the UK Support team that posted this, however if it is an executable that does not need the disc I doubt it has come from an external source. There'd be very little point doing so when we already own the original unprotected executable. As soon as we find out more about this we'll let you know.
[Jeopardy music] Then, later Friday: The file was removed from the site over a week ago now and the matter is being thoroughly investigated by senior tech support managers here at Ubisoft. Needless to say we do not support or condone copy protection circumvention methods like this and this particular incident is in direct conflict with Ubisoft's policies.
How about that! They used a freaking file that was, technically, someone else's IP. So they pirated from pirates to defeat their own copy protection. There's a hall of mirrors of irony here and, to say the least, it's some major stank on Ubisoft. It would be for any game company Ubisoft Pirates Game Fix from Pirates [The Register via GamersReports]
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| Ubisoft Used Pirate Hack to Fix Rainbow Six Vegas 2 [Ruh Roh] | | So Rainbow Six Vegas 2 was patched earlier this month with a slew of upgrades and gameplay changes, all of it free. Unfortunately, it also inserted a disc check ? big problem for those who got the game via digital download. The fix? I mean the official frickin' fix? The Register says an Ubi [..] Read complete article | | Published 19-Jul-2008 by Owen Good in Ruh roh rainbow six vegas 2 Rubi doo Top Ubisoft
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| Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Fan Pack: New Maps, Gameplay, 100% Free [Rainbow Six Vegas 2] | | Hi there! Um, so, Rainbow Six Vegas 2's nice. I mean, you know, like Diablo III's totally hot and all but Rainbow Six's Fan Pack has a super-great personality and is really kinda into you and maybe you could compliment it on its new maps? Cause like everyone here's hitting on Diablo III and she's not the only girl at the par [..] Read complete article | | Published 28-Jun-2008 by Owen Good in Rainbow six vegas 2 Dlc Fan pack Maps Playstation 3 Rainbow Six Top Ubisoft Xbox 360
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| Rainbow Six Vegas 2 getting free multiplayer maps in July |  Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters
Despite vowing to "never go back to Vegas," Ubisoft is still more than willing to expand the gambler's paradise from afar via downloadable content. Terrori [..] Read complete article | | Published 28-Jun-2008 by Ludwig Kietzmann in DLCFPSPSNRainbow-SixRainbow-Six-Vegas-2UbisoftXbox-Live
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| Ubisoft Profits Surge On Rainbow Six, Rayman [Ubi Profits Soar] | | Strong performance of the Rainbow Six, Rayman, The Settlers and Ghost Recon franchises drove Ubisoft to a "record-high profits" in the fiscal year ending March 2008, the company announced today. Ubisoft's sales surged 36 percent to ?928.3 million ($1.46 billion) [..] Read complete article | | Published 22-May-2008 by Leigh Alexander in FinancialIndustryNewsOriginalRainbow SixRaymanUbi Profits SoarYves Guillemot
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| PS3 Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 plagued with online snafus |  Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, First Person Shooters
According to their website, much of Ubisoft's technical support staff has taken this weekend off in observation of Good Friday and Easter. That's all well a [..] Read complete article | | Published 24-Mar-2008 by Griffin McElroy in onlinepatchps3rainbow-six-vegas-2rainbowsixrainbowsixvegasrainbowsixvegas2ubisoft
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| Key Titles, Back Catalog Help Ubi Beat Expectations [News] | | Strong performance from Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2, Assassin's Creed and Rayman Raving Rabbids helped Ubisoft exceed its estimates for its fiscal first quarter, the company said today. Ubi saw net sales up about 26% to ?169 million ($263.65 million), while the publisher did ?134 m [..] Read complete article | | Published 24-Jul-2008 by Leigh Alexander in News Financial Original Ubisoft
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| What's Ubisoft's Biggest-Selling Franchise? [Ubisoft] | | HINT: It's not Splinter Cell. Not Rainbow Six either. Or Prince of Persia. No, when you look at the list Ubisoft released yesterday, showing the total lifetime sales of its major franchises, you'd best brace you [..] Read complete article | | Published 29-May-2008 by Luke Plunkett in BusinessNewsPrince Of PersiaRainbow SixRaymanSales ChartsSplinter CellUbisoft
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