UbiSoft seems to have had a problem getting around their own copy
protection scheme for their Direct2Drive edition of Tom Clancy's
Rainbow Six Vegas 2.
So what did they do ?
Use an existing crack for it, but forgot to remove the pirate's tag
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If I understand this correctly, they've basically rendered every copy of this game that they send out pirated. I sure hope someone doesn't actually pirate the game, since they'd have nobody to complain to.
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Really, they've just proven beyond a shadow of a doubt everything people have said: patching the game makes it better, even a legitimate copy--and sometimes ESPECIALLY a legitimate copy.
Direct2Drive has a really bad reputation about different patches, fix problems, all sorts of things. It's amusing even the distributors have problems, however.
And yeah, everyone with a brain cracks all their games, legitimate or not. No, I'm not a trained monkey, and I'm not putting the CD in the tray, fuck off.
I think everyone knows that the first thing you do when you install new software is run over to gamecopyworld and see if they have a crack up for it yet.
That's one cool thing about Supreme Commander (and the Forged Alliance sequel). After a few patches, they remove the CD protection for some reason. It's too bad the game lacks personality.
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A few games have done that over the years, and with the move to online profiles it happens more and more. Games like Unreal Tournament 2003 dropped the cd-check after the first few patches, so I imagine it was just included so that they actually got their 'launch sales'. It's kinda absurd when a game like World in Conflict that uses online profiles demands you ALSO have the cd in the tray, after all.
There's two executables for WiC. One is the SP/MP executable that requires the CD. The other is the MP only that doesn't.
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