No. The original creators killed heroes of might and magic when they made part 4. Ubisoft resurrected the series and gave it a glossy makeover to boot.

Well it looks like a warcraft game in style which isn't a cool thing to do in a heroes game. I agree on 4 though.

and yeah I played it.

didn't ubisoft also try to close down SA because of a webcomic?

While this is funny/ironic etc, you're really over reacting. Couldn't this feasibly be the work of a couple of dudes in Montreal (or whatever Ubisoft Studio develops Rainbow Six games?) Is it so ridiculous to believe that some dude got tasked with fixing this shit in overtime and just nabbed a No DVD crack and passed it off to his manager? It's not like they'd crack open a hex editor and check. I haven't read the thread very closely so I might've got the story a bit wrong but I'm throwing this out there.

While this is funny/ironic etc, you're really over reacting. Couldn't this feasibly be the work of a couple of dudes in Montreal (or whatever Ubisoft Studio develops Rainbow Six games?) Is it so ridiculous to believe that some dude got tasked with fixing this shit in overtime and just nabbed a No DVD crack and passed it off to his manager? It's not like they'd crack open a hex editor and check. I haven't read the thread very closely so I might've got the story a bit wrong but I'm throwing this out there.

Correct, that's more than likely what happened. It is funny and ironic though, especially given Ubi's straunch policy in regards to piracy.

While this is funny/ironic etc, you're really over reacting. Couldn't this feasibly be the work of a couple of dudes in Montreal (or whatever Ubisoft Studio develops Rainbow Six games?) Is it so ridiculous to believe that some dude got tasked with fixing this shit in overtime and just nabbed a No DVD crack and passed it off to his manager? It's not like they'd crack open a hex editor and check. I haven't read the thread very closely so I might've got the story a bit wrong but I'm throwing this out there.

If this is what happened then it says more about their organization with patches imo.

Considering they had a few days or so (give or take), that would most likely be plenty of time. I can't think of one instance where a game company would do a patch and just "pass it off to their manager". They have to test it, make sure the code works, that it doesn't bug with other stuff (stray code lolz), etc. There would have been multiple people on this, and if not then that is a failure right there. You don't just throw one coder guy on stuff like this, even if it is just a No CD fix, really. For reasons like this! I'm sure it's probably something like that, but if it is something like that, it doesn't excuse them for having a bad work ethic when it comes to patches.

I'm not really overreacting, I'm mostly just trying to be all FUCK YOU UBISOFT (I hate them). I'm not really surprised they've screwed up again, I hate them, word on the inside from people who go here and work with them say they are shit, they screw shit up, and they are just straight up a bad company. If they really did just pass it off, then I highly doubt anyone bothered to scan it, which possibly could infect people (no matter if Reloaded is a "respected" team), so that's potential danger right there, and ultimately it comes down to them doing something wrong no matter how you cut it. I think better patching protocol would probably be a good first step because never ever should something like this be possible to go live. Either they just had 1 dude on this (which is bad), or they had no one testing it or checking into it (also bad.). You want to make sure of this stuff, because stuff like this is pretty hurtful to the company reputation, especially when you are blaming piracy 24/7 for your crap games having crap sales.