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Wonder why these people don't sneak into movies during non prime times. Not like you'll be taking anyone seat. Good old sociopath logic applies to everyday situations.
Seriously this wasn't Ubisoft messing with anyone. This was some of the more clueless members of the piratebay crowd outing themselves by complaining online about a missing feature that legit owners of the game had. Its like robbing a bank, then going back to the bank and complaining that they didn't fill the bag up all the way. Real brain surgeons these guys.I don't think this is a stunt, they're just making it out to be like one. I'm guessing the pirated version was available before the release version, so presumably the pirated version was some late build copy and everyone who paid for the DVD got that and the day 0 patch changed it. This is not like GTA4 where it randomly (and permanently) gave you drunk walk, or like certain cartridge roms that won't leave the opening sequence. This is Ubi taking credit where no credit is due.
The only reason why it had this problem was because the original pirated copy came from uplay which was unpatched. The latest pirated copies out there are using the steam version of the game which already has the latest patch. I think the uplay one came out earlier maybe through a preload or something and it was cracked. Like someone else said, the reloaded version out there in the wild doesn't have that problem as its based on the steam version. All the games get cracked on the same day they are released. I don't see why they even try to put protection in at all. Obviously there are smarter people cracking the stuff than there are making the protection at these companies lol. The hackers are more expert than even the developers especially with cracking all these games from all these release groups. 100s of games under one guys belt. Someone should give these guys a job in information security
I think it's more like 6 months to a year to maximize your odds.
Shit turn the wayback machine on and you'll see me at the park and rec center in my home town going to the Commodore Owner's Workshop (COW) with my C64 and a couple floppy drives, and while near the entrance they would have discussions on ... I don't know something... at the back where 75% of the people had computers set up all over the place (think LAN parties before LAN existed
) and we'd have our box(es) of disks out and people would just look through, nice ones asked to make a copy, and everyone swapped quite happily.. and yeah most of it was just a "hmm sure I'll copy that" ... and not everything was commercial games one which had a very non-descriptive name "Commie Bob" for instance ... it still is burned into my head as a WTF is this moment (seriously.. if you're curious, look it up on youtube if you dare...). Bottom line 99% of the disks I had had stuff I would never have bought. Later on when Amiga's became more widespread we went that direction, and always 2 floppy drives so you didn't have to swap disks to copy And the guy who set it up, Steve Beale (also worked at the local Sears in the appliance department), after the discussion part... yeah he came back to copy things occasionally too.
