gHacks technology news » ubisoft http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:35:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Ubisoft Releases Reloaded Crack To Fix Their Game http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/19/ubisoft-releases-reloaded-crack-to-fix-their-game/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/19/ubisoft-releases-reloaded-crack-to-fix-their-game/#comments Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:50:23 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5443 Let us talk about a major PR blunder for a short time. Ubisoft apparently temporarily (pulled by now again) released a fix for their game Rainbow Six Vegas 2 that fixed a problem for users who could not update and play the game in the latest version. Nothing problematic so far one would think but after analysing the fix with a hex editor it turned out that Ubisoft used a crack created by the warez group Reloaded to fix the problem.

It is obvious that game developers cannot give credit to warez groups even if their cracks are the perfect solution and that’s probably the reason why no credit was given.

It’s nevertheless highly hypocritical to ban forum members at the official Ubisoft forum for posting links to no-cd cracks while using one of those to fix a game.

I like no-cd cracks because they simplify the gaming experience. I do not have to pick and load a CD or DVD every time I want to play a game and it also saves me from hassles with copy protections.

You can read up on the story at Torrentfreak, Slashdot and the official Ubisoft forum. Props that they have not deleted the topic but only locked it.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/19/ubisoft-releases-reloaded-crack-to-fix-their-game/feed/ 3 Are ad supported free games the future ? http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/04/are-ad-supported-free-games-the-future/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/04/are-ad-supported-free-games-the-future/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:25:27 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/04/are-ad-supported-free-games-the-future/ Would you play ad supported games if they were free ? I think the main question that has be to answered before you can give me an answer is the way the ads are displayed. Are they only shown during startup or ingame as well ? This is unfortunately a question that I can’t answer right now but I can post links to some ad supported games by Ubisoft – full versions of course.

Ubisoft decided to make some of their recent games available for free in an ad supported version which can be downloaded exclusively from Fileplanet. The games that can be downloaded are: Rayman Raving Rabbids, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time and Far Cry and are available for US-Residents only.

You will also need a Fileplanet account to be able to download those games. Those are surely some hassles and I would personally not go through them to play those games but I know that some will do that.

The major difficulty that I have with this releases is that there are zero information regarding the type of advertisement provided by Ubisoft or Filefront.

I did found more information on Darren Gladstone’s blog where he confirms that the ads are only displayed during load and sage operations. That means no ads during gameplay, for now.

All games have a size of one Gigabyte+ which means that it takes some time if you download it from Fileplanet, one of the many download sites that I absolutely do not like and do not intend to use.

Some users reported that you only need a US Ubisoft account to make them work even if you currently live in another country.

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Far Cry Download
Rayman Raving Rabbids Download
Prince of Persia Sands of Time Download
via Cybernetnews

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