Assassin’s Creed III entire PC shipment stolen off a truck

Copies of the PC version of Assassin’s Creed III on the way to the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, have apparently been stolen off a truck somewhere in Europe.

I’m not sure what’s funnier about this story – that the entire Assassin’s Creed PC game supply for three countries was being transported on one truck, or that the whole thing sounds like a plot point in an Assassin’s Creed game.

Actual photo of the heist

Ubisoft has reportedly forwarded the barcodes and serial numbers of the stolen games to retailers, and blacklisted those numbers from their authentication servers so anybody who tries to play an illegally acquired copy of the game will have to resort to additionally illegal methods of doing so. Might just as well have pirated it in the first place, huh? I guess real life piracy is more exciting or something.

Obviously, Ubisoft has missed a huge marketing opportunity by not blaming this on a simulation synchronisation anomaly. I mean, that’s what I’d do. Maybe that’s why I’m not in charge of Ubisoft, though.

Source: Kotaku

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