- Jul 18, 2003
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I love Alcohol 120% and I'll be damned if any company is going to tell me what I can and can not install on my machine. If I owned Rainbow Six 3, I'd take it back immediately and demand a refund stating that their software won't run on your machine, even with the CD in the drive. Heck, I might go buy a copy, just so I can do that and make a point. This is absolutely a violation of fair rights to the consumer and we should all write UbiSoft a nice email telling them of our dissatisfaction with their latest copy protection scheme.
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Ubisoft released the promised Rainbow Six 3 : Raven Shield 1.5 patch yesterday, but they failed to mention their new copy protection scheme.
It turns out that Ubisoft implented code into the RVS 1.5 patch which checks PCs for ANY clone or virtual drive programs and then fails to launch the game if such devices or programs are found. What this has in turn done is disabled thousands of consumers who use programs like Daemon Tools, CloneCD or Alcohol 120% from playing their Ubisoft games even if they have their own physical cds in an actual drive.
After contacting a Technical Support Representative of Ubisoft, I was told that they feel that this is the wrong way to go about anti-piracy measures but they have no say in the matter. They did point out that Ubisoft management claims that they're covered under their EULA but the EULA does not state once that you are not allowed to have virtual drives on your system during play. It only says that you are not allowed to make back up copies.
Irregardless of what the virtual drives or virtual clone programs on your system are for, you will not be able to play Raven Shield with patch 1.5 unless you remove them completely off your system. Again, you can't even play when you have the retail cds in a drive unless those programs / virtual drives are removed. This is a violation of consumer rights - those programs are used for perfectly legal reasons especially at LAN cafes to avoid disc loss.
Try playing Warcraft III v1.13 from an image and you'll see what I mean. Hopefully the good folks at Alcohol with fix this BS ASAP. This isn't the first time virtual drives have been blacklisted and it certainly won't be the last. (Update: The latest Daemon Tools gets around the blacklist, which should mean Alcohol 120% will be updates soon as well. Hopefully Daemon tools will get around the latest Securom protected games, for our vocal minority that makes legitimate images of their games.)
Looks like UbiSoft caved in and released a v1.51 patch to correct their mistake. Hopefully the backlash from the community towards UbiSoft will make other game makers think twice before releasing "patches" which do nothing more than hurt their paying customers, and give the true pirates a good chuckle.
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http://www.evilavatar.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2214&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Ubisoft released the promised Rainbow Six 3 : Raven Shield 1.5 patch yesterday, but they failed to mention their new copy protection scheme.
It turns out that Ubisoft implented code into the RVS 1.5 patch which checks PCs for ANY clone or virtual drive programs and then fails to launch the game if such devices or programs are found. What this has in turn done is disabled thousands of consumers who use programs like Daemon Tools, CloneCD or Alcohol 120% from playing their Ubisoft games even if they have their own physical cds in an actual drive.
After contacting a Technical Support Representative of Ubisoft, I was told that they feel that this is the wrong way to go about anti-piracy measures but they have no say in the matter. They did point out that Ubisoft management claims that they're covered under their EULA but the EULA does not state once that you are not allowed to have virtual drives on your system during play. It only says that you are not allowed to make back up copies.
Irregardless of what the virtual drives or virtual clone programs on your system are for, you will not be able to play Raven Shield with patch 1.5 unless you remove them completely off your system. Again, you can't even play when you have the retail cds in a drive unless those programs / virtual drives are removed. This is a violation of consumer rights - those programs are used for perfectly legal reasons especially at LAN cafes to avoid disc loss.
Try playing Warcraft III v1.13 from an image and you'll see what I mean. Hopefully the good folks at Alcohol with fix this BS ASAP. This isn't the first time virtual drives have been blacklisted and it certainly won't be the last. (Update: The latest Daemon Tools gets around the blacklist, which should mean Alcohol 120% will be updates soon as well. Hopefully Daemon tools will get around the latest Securom protected games, for our vocal minority that makes legitimate images of their games.)
Looks like UbiSoft caved in and released a v1.51 patch to correct their mistake. Hopefully the backlash from the community towards UbiSoft will make other game makers think twice before releasing "patches" which do nothing more than hurt their paying customers, and give the true pirates a good chuckle.
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