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Short story:

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

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.

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.

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.

You only need it for singleplayer. I'm not even sure where my disc is and I'm able to play online just fine.

In WiC? No way, the cd-check is the first thing it does, it won't even start without the disk. Maybe you're just running cracked and you forgot?

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.