In particular, they were able to download and play Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, the goofy cyborg-infested spin-off that won’t be out officially until May 1.įar Cry 6’s season pass brings old villains to Yara Not only did they have access to games already available on the service, they were even able to download unreleased Ubisoft games. Ignoring the jargon for a moment, what this means is that they found a way to trick Uplay into thinking there were many games they already owned when they didn’t. All of Uplay’s publishing partners were likely wishing that it had waited a bit longer to team up with Ubisoft since a hacking group discovered an exploit that let them download games for free.Īs detailed by Gameranx on Tuesday morning, a Russian hacker group built a piece of software that exploits the Uplay client launcher. It was only in February that Uplay brought in third-party publishers, moving beyond the distribution of its own games like Assassin’s Creed III and selling others like The Walking Dead and even indies like To The Moon. Ubisoft’s Uplay, the digital rights management scheme that evolved into a Steam and EA Origin competitor in 2012, remains a follower in the digital distribution field.
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