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Ubisoft Disabling Game if Virtual Drive Software is Present | 13 comments (13 topical) | Post A Comment
Other UBI Soft Games Do this Too[ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#1)
by Anonymous User on Sat Dec 20, 2003 at 10:16:41 PM PDT

Their other game, XIII did this too, from the day of release. They have already mentioned that its INTENTIONAL, so I do not see how it can be 'unintentional' for another of their games. What makes it worse is that a lot of the Dell / HP / newbie-machines come with pre-installed OEM CD burning software such as nero or EZ CD Creator, which has virtual drive, which stops the game from working. So here we have a product which doesn't even work on your average, purchased by a non-hardware savy gamer, from Dell / whatever... and now the non-techy is being told to 'disable virtual drives' ?? This is a bad move by UBI.

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This is ridiculous...[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#4)
by Anonymous User on Mon Dec 29, 2003 at 02:56:45 AM PDT

...because all the better Virtual Drive tools like "Daemon Tools" allow you to rename the driver, so that it isn't found....

So this limitation hits only their non-tech customers, because the game freaks - and of course the alleged or real bad guys - use the better tools....

And frankly, i use the daemon tools because i don't want to swap disks, not because i'd pirate games....

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