[WhiteKnight77]

Ubisoft sues over Assassin's Creed leak.

Apparently an employee of the disk manufacturer snuck an early version of the PC version home and released it via the internet. Now Ubi wants money for breach of contract and damage to it's reputation due to reviews slamming Ubi for a crash part way through the game due to a bug that was purposely put there by Ubi.

Ubi has more to look at besides some jerk releasing pre-retail code into the wild. The quality of their recent games is less than desirable right now and this lawsuit will not make up for that. Maybe it's time for the heads of the company to take a deeper look into the reasons why their games are not selling well instead of blaming just piracy. While I haven't played it, I hear Assassin's Creed wasn't that great. We all know that Vegas and Vegas 2 had major problems and bugs in the first were not fixed for the second version.

[Rocky]

That's a good read.

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According to the industry-tracking NPD Group, the PC edition of the game sold more than 40,000 copies at US retailers through June. Ubisoft claims the leaked edition of the game was downloaded more than 700,000 times, costing the publisher millions of dollars.

and this

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Ubisoft says it included a bug in the pre-release Assassin's Creed for security reasons that would cause the game to crash partway through.

BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA. They include bugs as SECURITY REASONS.

BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA. BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA.
BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA.
BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA.

[Tinker]

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While I haven't played it, I hear Assassin's Creed wasn't that great. We all know that Vegas and Vegas 2 had major problems and bugs in the first were not fixed for the second version.

Apart from being frustrated learning how to play the game, I have had not a single issue with it so far here. Enjoying it TBH.

[WhiteKnight77]

Rocky, on Aug 7 2008, 06:14 AM, said:

That's a good read.

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According to the industry-tracking NPD Group, the PC edition of the game sold more than 40,000 copies at US retailers through June. Ubisoft claims the leaked edition of the game was downloaded more than 700,000 times, costing the publisher millions of dollars.

and this

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Ubisoft says it included a bug in the pre-release Assassin's Creed for security reasons that would cause the game to crash partway through.

BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA. They include bugs as SECURITY REASONS.

BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA. BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA.
BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA.
BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA.

I figured you would like that.

[krise madsen]

I talked to an Ubi guy on another forum: The "bug" consisted of removing code so that two cities did not load, making it impossible to complete the game. It was done this way because crackers will usually locate anything added to the game, but not something that is removed.

It was done as a watermark, so that Ubi could track any leaks from early pre-release builds (pirates complaining on forums that the game doesn't work), leading them to this disc duplicator.

Respectfully

krise madsen

[Rocky]

If Ubi bugs were all security devices, they'd have the most secure games on the planet

Joking apart, thanks for the explanation Krise.

[CrowmanUK]

Rocky, on Aug 9 2008, 05:32 PM, said:

If Ubi bugs were all security devices, they'd have the most secure games on the planet

Muhahahaha and the ones that arent being patched will be secure forever...

[firefly2442]

I liked the game and didn't have any issues. That is weird about introducing a "bug" and touting it as a security feature though....

[Papa6]

CrowmanUK, on Aug 9 2008, 12:52 PM, said:

Rocky, on Aug 9 2008, 05:32 PM, said:

If Ubi bugs were all security devices, they'd have the most secure games on the planet

Muhahahaha and the ones that arent being patched will be secure forever...

I want my bloody money back then! I paid for an unsecure game (GRAW2) only to have the rate of fire bug still..I didn't buy a secure game from direct2drive.

Change the ubisoft name to Bubisoft resptively. they are all about bugs

[Sup]

Rocky, on Aug 7 2008, 06:14 AM, said:

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Ubisoft says it included a bug in the pre-release Assassin's Creed for security reasons that would cause the game to crash partway through.

BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA. They include bugs as SECURITY REASONS.

BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA. BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA.
BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA.
BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA.

actually that's quite common. The same thing happened with Titan Quest -- people pirated their game and wondered why it was crashing. Stable code, hastily made security measure -- just cuts the program, no 'security check failed' error message or whatever.

sloppy, but not unusual.

[Lightspeed]

love or hate UBI, they are one of the few companies actually releasing computer games that we wouldnt otherwise see.

and if i was going to develop a game which is a dream of mine, i would hate the thought that some ###### at a publishing company would cost me millions of dollars just bcoz he's a ######.