Fromtheold» » Illegal Patch Fixes Game Bugs

With the recent Patch 1.03 for Rainbow Six Vegas 2, owners who had purchased the game via "Direct 2 Drive" download service were faced with a few problems. The new patch actually stopped the game working for those owners, however the owners of the Disk releases faced no trouble at all.

The forums were piling up with queries and responses to the problem with some of the users suggesting that the Illegal No-CD Crack created by RELOADED actually fixed the error for the D2D users. Because the cracks are obviously illegal the forum moderators issued warnings tot eh users posting this suggestion and removed their posts.

Ubi releases their own fix for this error and it worked just as well as the not so legal method, so a few users took it upon themselves to dig deeper into the source code for the fix and found that the official release of the fix was none other than the illegal crack released by RELOADED, just in disguise. Steeling for the criminals, what is this world coming too. LOL

A Hex editor screen showing the "official" patch with "RELOADED" code

What is all the fuss about, well we can always start with the fact that the code created by the RELOADED is considered illegal in the US, but also in direct violation of Ubi’s own ‘Terms and Conditions’ and in the past they have punished users for using for using this and other illegal cracks in the past.

Ubisoft have not yet released an official response to explain how and why this has happened, but a post in the forum under the current thread discussing this matter, by the community manager, was said:

“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.”

For now we can sit back and wait to hear what Ubi has to say around the matter. for gamers requiring a legal fix to the error, you will unfortunately have to wait, as Ubi has wisely decided to remove the fix from their servers. As more information is available we will pass it on to you.

To view the original thread, CLICK HERE.

Author: Reme Le Hane - Cyburbia Computers