One player made a photo mode for The Division, Ubisoft banned him from playing

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More and more games today have the supporting option for a photographic mode in which you can stop the scene, rotate the camera and add different effects before the same scene you capture in the photo, or screenshot. But this is not so feasible in online or multiplayer games where there is no pause for the game. That is, it is not feasible without modification of the game alone.

Exactly this kind of modification for The Division put together Matti Hietanen, author of Cinematic Tools for numerous games. His tool, which essentially is a photo mode, allows to remove the interface in the games, also controls of changing the weather conditions, or time of day. Cinematic Tools for The Division was made two years ago, but after a recent update, it was convicted from Ubisoft itself, while to his author was permanently denied access to The Division.

However, the tool alone was based on the Cheat Engine so that Ubisoft definitely had the justification for this kind of move. The author of Cinematic Tools attempted to exploit this omission by prohibiting the use of the same in the Dark Zone, in PvP part of the game. But that was obviously not enough for Ubisoft's compassion.

Tagged with: Game as a Service, Controversy, Ubisoft

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Harsh but it also sends out a strong message to cheaters that Ubisoft isn't f'ing around.


nameuser said:

Harsh but it also sends out a strong message to cheaters that Ubisoft isn't f'ing around.

Don't be ridicilous. They don't give a fck about cheaters and reviews in Steam confirms this.


Existential

Yet another example of a person who should have been offered a job.  If someone can do that with the finished product just imagine what could be done with the tools of a game studio.  Think about all the cool games/game modes/whatever they could have come up with.


Not a fan of Ubisoft, but Cheat Engine is banned and everyone knows this. The guy who made this was probably well aware that he can be banned from doing something like this on a multiplayer game.

Obviously updates should be posted, because the creative director of Ubisoft Julian Gerighty, tweeted this to the guy that got banned:

 

So yes, it appears that Ubisoft, despite the instant ban, is still interested in people doing similar things like that Matti guy. It is well within their interest to contact and communicate with people that are capable of modding the game like this.



Interstellar

Ubisoft don't fix bugs and ban hackers instead of ban the normal player?Well done!


Solar

Interesting story since I can understand both sides, but a permanent ban is pretty harsh. Couldn't they have temporarily banned him and permanent banned the next time?


Here I am, ready to play. Gaming enthusiast without free time to actually play video games but eager to learn anything
Sulimen said:

Not a fan of Ubisoft, but Cheat Engine is banned and everyone knows this. The guy who made this was probably well aware that he can be banned from doing something like this on a multiplayer game.

Obviously updates should be posted, because the creative director of Ubisoft Julian Gerighty, tweeted this to the guy that got banned:

 

So yes, it appears that Ubisoft, despite the instant ban, is still interested in people doing similar things like that Matti guy. It is well within their interest to contact and communicate with people that are capable of modding the game like this.

At least they seem to be open to other things apart from banning people.


RockNRolla

Bans works of Anti-cheat, which sees the changing of the game files or some sort of interference in gameplay.