Yet ANOTHER Steam Summer Sale 2022 Exploit - Perfectly Balanced Unlimited Free Steam Keys Thx Gaben!

[@thespiffingbrit]

*Thanks Gaben

[@daEpico]

ok

[@lcarr578]

Top notch video spiff

[@Scuants]

Buy Australia next

[@Mirdax]

Change title from steam summer sale 2022 to steam 2022

[@MadGermanX_X]

Can I do that with anno?

[@sharuru8107]

I bet those steam employees didn't expect to get hit twice this summer sale.

[@flaregamer64]

The sale isn't on any more, but doing two exploits in the span of two weeks surely has to Flock with the minds of Valve's Employees.

[@disswade1104]

@@flaregamer64 HEY! I see what u did there..

[@hugoboisclair5413]

Third time will be even funnier

[@mohammadtaherpour34]

its even funnier the second time

[@intel_i0929]

Stonks

[@RandomPerson-pi9cu]

Steam: (removes Flock) Spiff: “and I took that personally”

[@thespiffingbrit]

This pretty much sums up the recording process

[@Wildgameing]

Seccond

[@takuma359]

@@Wildgameing no

[@usedcolouringbook8798]

@@Wildgameing yes

[@creeper2159official]

@@thespiffingbrit What would you do if Steam decided to remove Tea Garden Simulator, I suppose 3 security flaws wouldn't be bad, since 3 is a magical number :)

[@KalavinkaK]

Me: "This is horrible. Surely this is illegal. It's not right to steal keys from--" Brit: "Today we're going to be stealing from Ubisoft." Me: "Please continue."

[@michaelhanson5773]

me too... a company that basically removes games and services that people have paid for, digital or not should be what is illegal.

[@l.d.3325]

sorry guys I am not realy smart but if you dont want to pay a game why dont you just use torrents ?

[@user-qn2zx3lo3g]

@@l.d.3325 it’s illegal in a lot of countries You can get a fine around 300$

[@someone5502]

@@user-qn2zx3lo3g No one gets fined for that shit unless youre doing it on some colossal scale, your isp would have to be purposfully monitoring your activity to see whether youre torrenting and then theyd have to report it to authorities which atleast in my country wouldnt give 2 shits about torrenting and your isp would be scared of you leaving them for someone else, bottom line, biggest risk with torrents isnt getting in trouble but rather viruses and malware

[@user-qn2zx3lo3g]

@@someone5502 i was in germany when i got fined 300 for torrenting one game so i did get fined for that shit. As i said it’s different from country to country

[@beetheimmortal]

I don't often say this, but Ubisoft deserves this treatment. Screw Ubisoft.

[@wealthybone2990]

Why screw ubisoft?

[@rickingangel]

@@wealthybone2990 sounds like someone didn't watch the video

[@wealthybone2990]

@@rickingangel Almsot like I just started watching it but I read comments while I watch. Though it's weird why they do this.

[@rickingangel]

@@wealthybone2990 i just hope other game companies dont follow suit *cough* nintendo *cough*

[@devilmikey00]

@@wealthybone2990 Well the company was and still is full of sex abusing assholes who more or less got away with and will continue to get away with it because gamers have an attention span of 5 minutes. Also, they are nuking a bunch games online features.

[@gdlpe05]

Two major problems with this exploit: 1) you now own games made by ubisoft 2) you now own uplay

[@NovaMaster375]

Now imagine if you could get refunds throught Uplay, too

[@C2K777]

@@NovaMaster375 That suggestion is just sheer madness though

[@Arcanua]

Better then EA or Blizzard right now :^)

[@Miguel_7607]

@@NovaMaster375 infinite money

[@mojewjewjew4420]

@@Arcanua true but that doesnt really mean something since the bar is so low.

[@ClaudioAbraham]

Came for the exploit, stayed for the storytelling. Perfectly balanced indeed.

[@rocketman143]

And left to steal the game

[@resileaf9501]

Ubisoft's decision to remove all online elements is so incomprehensibly stupid. For PC, they're literally tearing away things that people have earned while playing and removing content that people paid for. That can't be legal. Therefore, Spiff revealing this exploit is morally proper as Ubisoft absolutely deserves everything that happens to it.

[@LordMoku]

Actually, when you unavoidably sign a game's ToS when you first play it, especially for EA and Ubi games, you are agreeing to RENT the game, not buy it, meaning that they can remove complete functionality if they choose to, and you have no recourse. So as shitty as it is, it IS 100% "legal".

[@iurigrang]

Keeping online functionality costs money and servers. There's no way you could actually make it illegal, otherwise you'd be forcing them to have an eternal expense every game they release.

[@resileaf9501]

@@iurigrang It's Ubisoft, I think they can afford the eternal expense.

[@bradleycalkins394]

It may not be stupid, it could also be planned obsolescence. Every new game must compete not only with every other new game, but also with every old game, both the ones you own and the one's you can acquire. For many, they can do nothing about it, but by adding online requirements to new games they can prevent today's games from competing with tomorrow's. I should note, for legal reasons, that this is only a hypothetical strategy, and not something I can prove. Always online requirements can be used for this, even if only for certain features, but I have no proof that anyone is actually using it for this purpose, only that there is a potential motive.

[@h13n12]

it actually is legal since if you read most game company's ToS you don't actually own the game, you just own the right to play that game which means they can actually remove most of the game's content without any legal trouble

[@JimC607]

Man, your videos are genuinely so fun to watch.

[@thespiffingbrit]

Thank you friend that means a lot

[@vermilisix]

Yeah, it's fun to watch even though the exploits are usually patched before I can use them

[@Justin-ee1mv]

@@thespiffingbrit Glad to see this series still going

[@yoinkilltakethat3846]

@@vermilisix if only he could without his accounts getting suspended 🙏 then we could all have assassin's creed fr

[@Wildgameing]

Weee

[@NathanTruby]

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be Never stop exploiting, the world needs more chaps like you

[@inny74]

I actually got these free via the Polish Ubisoft Store when it had a massive exploit.

[@thespiffingbrit]

Ahhh yes when you could buy all the ubisoft games for $0.16... that was a good day

[@Justin-ee1mv]

@@thespiffingbrit nice

[@januszpolak254]

@@thespiffingbrit It was even better. All games below 5$ were fully free. It was amazing lol.

[@xXRealXx]

@@januszpolak254 wait what? When? Man you gotta notify me with this stuff

[@kingo5940]

how do u know this stuff as it happens?

[@DamnCyrus]

You actually smacked Ubisoft right in their wallet, good. That's crazy to hear they'd take away access to games that we should still have entire access to; but hey That's the FREE market right?

[@tomjones2056]

Communist society would totally produce niche games that kill worker productivity!

[@Deadbeatcow]

everyone who bought it signed a contract that allowed them to do this, blame yourselves

[@JohnBrown-tw2qi]

Marx was right, capitalism is failing us.

[@partywumpus5267]

@@Deadbeatcow damn you're right they should've just gotten the game a different way. Oh wait

[@kodaxmax]

@@Deadbeatcow yeh denying yourself the game entirley is a great way to avoid having them deny you huge chunks of the game.. somehow

[@Dia1Up]

I'm pretty against game piracy. I truely believe the devs need to get paid for their years of hardwork they poured into a work of art that is intended to be enjoyed by someone who will pay a fair amount for the experience. It's the cheapest form of entertainment hour for hour and can transport you to so many different worlds quickly. The creativity is endless. The devs should be rewarded for their efforts...... But then there's Ubisoft......

[@juliorodriguez6156]

You do realize they get paid regardless, right? You buying their games isn't going to change that, in fact, look at Activision, they make record sales and yet they still fire 100s of employees.

[@braedyntomlinson1021]

lmao

[@GreenHouseM13]

@@juliorodriguez6156 Many companies do give bonuses depending on how well the games do. So they would still be affected by these things.

[@juliorodriguez6156]

@@GreenHouseM13 yeah, they do, but they go to the greedy execs, not the developers.

[@Ajinnora]

Then there is EA... I agree with you as a person who tries to get into game dev, I know it's hard but the devs are getting paid anyways the harm is done to greedy companies. So with currency exchange rates I wouldn't be able to buy any games. 1 dollar is 17 here! So for example I wouldn't pirate Stardew valley, amazing game made by 1 person in 8 years. However, I did pirate the sims4 and not opposed to pirating games owned by shtty companies.

[@monsoonsheep]

"I don't understand if you make the art why you would want to destroy the art" Let us never forget what EA did to Titanfall. RIP

[@Tim_van_de_Leur]

RIP CnC

[@MarineRX179]

Also Dead Space...

[@CalaTec]

And Dark Spore? I can't even play the game I paid twice for, not even the offline campaign. I had both the physical and digital version. I know it was not a super good game but I liked it and it was my game...

[@dragonwing4ever]

@@CalaTec man i miss spore that was a great game even if it was butchered to a fraction of what was originally intended for it

[@aegeangaming8280]

and the sims since the sims 4 sucks and is a downgrade from the sims 3 buildmode and map wise

[@ravagef]

I had literally bought a couple of the assassins creed games yesterday to replay them, thank you for now letting me play them for free!

[@mateos7757]

If you’re gonna get some copys, mind sharing the steam keys

[@9justgaming]

U only have 2 hours to refund the game keep that in mind

[@michaelhuit]

@@9justgaming 2 hours of in-game time. 2 weeks otherwise

[@Maarten8867]

You might as well pirate the games...

[@Kelly-cd3gb]

@@Maarten8867 honestly i dont understand why you prefer those cmd.exes appearing and disappearing in a blink of an eye over a legit copy i could maybe even sell to someone

[@SpartanXVII]

Time traveller here, just wanted to say thank you Spif for your 2032 video "Real life is perfectly balanced AGAIN, - Yet another glitch for FREE INFINTE DRINKABLE WATER" Really saved my family after the disastrous events of 2029.

[@planetbob6703]

I think online requirement for core game features *on a singleplayer* should be abolished. I’m paying full prize for a game and a couple of years later it becomes unplayable. That actually sounds like fraud!

[@dodoguy]

Darkspore basically

[@raandomplayer8589]

Full prize 🏆

[@nanoqht285]

Companies can make games unplayable all they want after you’ve bought them with no legal consequences because of a little thing that we call “Terms of Service” in the business.

[@NovaMaster375]

@@nanoqht285 Hence why I buy games from publishers that DON'T force you to agree to a TOS statement after you already own the game

[@DFloyd84]

@@nanoqht285 Terms of service can be found to be unenforceable if a judge determines that it asks far too much and withholds too many rights from the end user.

[@suhwanseo7776]

I love watching Spiff, but when it is an exploit I’ve used before. Im like “Spiff why must you inform the world?”

[@azzor4134]

Yeah... he prolly ruined an exploit and got a few people banned. That's why these tricks must stay hidden

[@ThomasBravoGaming]

Last time I was this early Spiffing hadn’t gotten VAC banned

[@gnomge]

What's Spiff without a VAC ban?

[@thespiffingbrit]

Soon tm

[@Katkus.]

@@thespiffingbrit Uhh...

[@Justin-ee1mv]

@@thespiffingbrit Speedrun a vac ban I can’t wait till that video drops

[@takuma359]

Long before time...

[@davidgustafik7968]

Now, to be fair, Ubisoft is not the only one destroying what they made, just look at the hollowed out shell that was Blizzard.

[@KasumiRINA]

EA too.

[@dirpyturtle69]

@@KasumiRINA ea has never been a solid shell. It’s always been hollow

[@mikailvandartel]

Square

[@johnkauchis8384]

new stuff won't always be a winner, but to be fair I can still play all my old school blizzard games from 20+ years ago on my current PC for exactly $0 more than I bought them for. Does that excuse the debacle that is whale fishing tycoon erm I mean Diablo Immortal....no, but that's why you let your money do the talking when a company tries to sell you a turd painted gold.

[@YOEL_44]

@@mikailvandartel What, SquareEnix is the only dev that's still doing things mostly decent, what are you talking about?

[@laplace8638]

Hope you continue this kind of content because I love it. I would love to see it become a series. Love what you do. Keep up the great work

[@PlaceholderforBjorn]

I don't understand why when game developers terminate the online functions for a game, don't release the server software for free. Or opensource it. Then the community itself can maintain the game online functions. I'm glad there are some gems like Valheim that provides the server software.

[@KasumiRINA]

they want people to buy their new games is all... so they actively work on making old unplayable. Same with software, at some point Windows XP and then Windows 7, became "unplayable" for stuff, except in case of OS it IS justified, not so much in gaming where each game is standalone experience and doesn't need to have tons of stuff rely on it (Microsoft also have tons of useless and outdated stuff in system to ensure backwards compatibility so I guess I picked bad example)... I think Apple with their planned obsolescence is better comparison. Get our new stuff as we make our old stuff stop working.

[@PlaceholderforBjorn]

@@KasumiRINA Yeah, you are right of course.. But I would love to live in a better world there economic gain isn't the main priority.

[@heavylemons4956]

Team Fortress 2 is Perfect , it's just these things..........they're everywhere

[@Zappygunshot]

Let us not forget that neither Ubisoft nor Electronic Arts made these games. They were just the publishers; the middle men that carved the industry in such a way as to make them seem irreplaceable, but in truth they do none of the work it takes to make the games published in their names, if anything they actively make said games worse by forcing developers to shoehorn in bad practices and awful game mechanics because someone with a suit and a PowerPoint presentation told them it'd make them more money. They don't release the server software because of contrived reasons that aren't actually true if you look more into it. A few years back, someone made a great video essay about publishers shutting down servers for games that are impossible to play without them, and the effort some people go to to rebuild the software from the heavily encrypted (oftentimes military grade) fragments of what remains; but sadly I can't for the life of me remember who it was and what it was called. I feel like it might've been James Stephanie Sterling, but it might also just have been a Jimquisition on the subject that pointed to the essay as a useful resource.

[@kobold7466]

why let people play old games when you can make them buy your new turd?

[@cartoonizerph4152]

I am back from the depths of Steam! Thank you for the Glorious Exploit, now I can play my Favorite game Pet Horsez 2.

[@nrreno]

its not your favorite, its everyones favorite! Because its the best game that released yet! Cant wait for pet horsez 3

[@goufr3540]

@@nrreno Just wait till the along awaited release of Pet Horsez: Brotherhood.

[@notsepia]

The only things people are wondering when clicking on this title are “does it still work?” and “is it clickbait?”

[@Crew7340]

It’s trye

[@taongamasilo5589]

i a now convinced steam is a charity giving away free stuff

[@PorkChopBatter]

Bringing back the OG steam summer sales one exploit at a time

[@RedRingOfDead]

The force is strong with this one. Perfectly balanced ⚖️

I love that you use preview stockphotos all over the place with watermarks. Just fits the theme of the video very well :D

[@butchcanniegame]

Anno 2070 was one of my favourite games. It will be missed. As always another incredible video, Thank your for your service to the Queen and the people!

[@massivepileup]

As mentioned in the video, the devs are now working to migrate 2070 to a different online system to avoid it getting shut down. So there's a chance it may survive.

[@Poolio_10]

The Spiffing Brit: Chaotic Good EA and Ubisoft: Lawful Evil Opposites for life

[@totalyrindim7971]

Pathfinder morality system maybe?

[@CyberCripX]

assassins vs templars

[@rojeriofumasa]

EA and Ubisoft are not lawful lmao

[@r2020E]

@@rojeriofumasa technically it is because of the shit they put in the ToS that you sign

[@RambleOn07]

I'd call them neutral evil with how they have no regard for being lawful. Only exploiting other people in whatever way they can get away with.

[@jasonlyons1575]

Woo 3M I love ur videos Ty for the years of cheeky exploits I love ur tea but I still drink coffee in the morning they give me that extra kick in the ass that I need but ur tea is my all-time favorite next to Earl Gray

[@ncrtrooper7648]

Spiff thank you once again for your service to us gamers.

[@thespiffingbrit]

go keep them games alive!

[@zocker1600]

he is not doing any service to gamers, because of bullshit like this, Valve will remove the refund system. Is that what you want as a gamer???

[@michaelcorcoran8768]

@@thespiffingbrit you're a preservationist!

[@bigbraintime8894]

@@zocker1600 no they will not

[@PhilChilled]

You never cease to amaze me with the videos, damn so much in depth info.

[@liamhagerty4249]

How are you not in trouble with the law is crazy. Keep up the epic work, bravo 👏👏👏

[@megaultrasuperdood]

I loved the assassin's Creed multiplayer mode. It was super unique and I was actually motivated to level up the characters. There was potential to continue with a ship mode in 3 or 4 too

[@thefallenknight2354]

You’re so on time man! The sale definitely didn’t end a few hours ago!

[@r_ng2973]

im triyng to see if it still works ill let you know if it does

[@thefallenknight2354]

@@r_ng2973 Appreciate it, brother. I think it still does since Spiffing said it has been a problem for a long time.

[@alejandroramos8371]

Still works without steamsales, it just you have to pay the full price to get it for free lol

[@Ribbiting-Frog]

I'm excited this year for the next exploit

[@ikkeheltvanlig]

I hope most people will respect CDPR's choice not to bog down their games with DRM tools, and actively don't abuse it.

[@skorpiongod]

People have been able to easily get every game ever made for free and still they buy them because they can.

[@OriginalPiMan]

On the other hand, don't respect a publisher that overworks it's developers.

[@ikkeheltvanlig]

@@OriginalPiMan I absolutely agree, "crunch time" should be criminal, however that's not relevant for buying vs stealing a software. If you want to make a statement like that, you should completely dismiss the company and all their products and only talk about their sins in every forum, comment section etc. But crunch is the norm, almost everybody do it, so fighting it from the outside would be difficult. If programmers unified internationally, kept blacklists over bad actors and made it hard to get talent, that would hit them where it hurt. That would make it expensive and cost them revenue and market shares. But still difficult, and would take time. I used to think John TotalBiscuit Bain would be able to revolutionize the business, but unfortunately he died so very young and the world is a poorer place for it. I think we would need a fiery soul like that, with the audience to get the ball rolling and the vision to actually make a difference, that's the only way.

[@OriginalPiMan]

@@ikkeheltvanlig I follow a total boycott of buying games made by abusive developers or publishers, or at least those known to be so. If I therefore wasn't going to buy their games, then they lose nothing if I play their games illegally. (I don't though, mainly because there are plenty of games, mostly by indie studios and solo devs, that are great and without abusive work practices)

[@IslamistSocialist371]

@@OriginalPiMan simple, you don't respect it, dont play it.

[@takuma359]

Another day of spiff exploiting the matrix to get infinite riches XD

[@thespiffingbrit]

ahhh yes I must harvest the ad revenue!!!!

[@takuma359]

jeff bezos is quaking in his yeezees rn

[@kittaunne4074]

Doesn't work anymore. Ubisoft will just open the steam store page and tell you to download. Tried with assassin's creed black flag

[@voidishprattles4319]

I was recently contacted by a guy who wanted a bunch of old TF2 crates I had from old events and he sold me a bunch of keys i then sold and was able to buy like 5 games during the sale... It's really the greatest power trip I've had in awhile because I'm so broke I'm struggling to buy groceries yet I was just able to buy 5 new games without touching my bank account. Just wild times we live in, and really goes to show how great steam can be at times.

[@nevidarke3810]

Thank you Gaben for having that cup of coffee and giving us the summer sale, if he had a refreshing cup of Yorkshire tea all along, he would have all of his senses.

[@John-jc3ty]

the fatal flaw of this plan is that you have to use uplay

[@zilvoxidgod]

I've gotta say, the idea of removing a game from a store because it can be stolen is absurd. You make zero sales with a game that's not listed. You make non zero sales if it's listed. It is FREE TO LIST! There is no physical inventory! There is no maintenance! There's nothing to lose except opportunity cost from people who, if they're stealing, probably would NEVER have even CONSIDERED buying the game. They only showed interest because it cost them nothing. They're just shooting themselves in the foot in order to keep freeloaders and their customers alike.

[@UKSpike]

Actually, I am pretty sure each refund of the game Steam would attempt to invoice the developers 30% of the cost of the game, and since it was refunded for free and no money was given, Capcom are essentially paying Steam 30% the cost of Flock even though no purchase was made (and this is likely automated).. Of course this would all be sorted out and no money paid as it is Steams fault this exists in the first place, so the easiest solution for them at the moment is just to remove it from sale to stop it from happening.

[@urgay1992]

What I don't get is why they couldn't just revoke the keys instead? I know other stores do this so if you do a chargeback or similar the steam key gets revoked.

[@Infiland]

Thanks for uploading this video after the summer sale. Extremely helpful

[@nitaki_]

Fun fact, in 2020 I bough the original doom to play that masterpiece again but a few days later I had to refund it to buy an other game. Upon refunding it none of the files got deleted and I could just run the game trough a .bat file and it would work just fine! The fact I did that accidentally still makes me laugh to this day

[@Volodymyr.Yermakov]

I don't like that people exploit steam refund system. It's pretty good and I don't want for Valve to have more reason to make it more restrictive

[@stemom]

Gotta agree with this. Compared to other digital storefronts, Valve generally provides good bang for your buck (Steam workshop, build-in forums, ...). They're not perfect and I have gripes with some of their decisions (like the friend limit being tied to your Steam level), but I still trust them enough that I'm willing to actually buy trough there. And those that really want to play the game for free, can just hoist the black flag and pirate. That's a lot better then having to go trough hoops to abuse a system that generally works in the costumers favor.

[@Arcanua]

@@stemom I'll agree with you there, sadly Steam's not great for the devs but nothing we can do there...

[@NoR3m0rs3]

They just need a mechanic to cancel the key when its refunded

[@SgtHawk45]

@@NoR3m0rs3 That would be smart, after all, not everyone is a morally upstanding human being.

[@NovaNova11.]

its dogshit, i tried to refund this dlc that i played for 45 min and they didnt want to refund it

[@RostTV]

Ah yes more free money!

[@thespiffingbrit]

POV: You are robbing a bank

[@RostTV]

@@thespiffingbrit If you don't do it like in the GTA games you do it for nothing

[@phoenixpinna]

I actually found out about part of this a while back. An old friend shared his steam library for cyber punk and baldurs gate 3. After i downloaded them, i could just open the .exe file and play it without needing to own it or have the library shared. I use to just go offline but its easier to use the file. I'm sure it will work with most other games too. Idk if they let you refund after downloading the game but if they do, you could technically do this with any game on the market.

[@Rekkuza-eu6sp]

Pick up your cross and follow Jesus! The world is quickly headed for destruction, and sooner or later you will have to sit at the judgement seat and give an account for your actions. Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life! - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God tho. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc and you should get a response. Have a blessed day!

[@StiekemeHenk]

Saving y'all some time, keyfinder doesn't do much, and for ubisoft using SteamDepotDownloader on the key DLC shows you there's no physical files on drive for the "key" DLC's. Its probably somewhere in the registry, but good luck finding it.

[@steveaguay]

Most of the time I would look down upon this as it's stealing from devs. But Ubisoft is evil, this action of forcing their games to be online and now kill them is evil. Steal all you want from them

[@dragonskinner7109]

I'm pretty sure no company out there actually cares for you. All a company wants in the end is your money which is why pirating is great and I like stealing without consequences.

[@elobiretv]

lol it's not like the actual people who made the game are getting paid whenever you buy assassins creed though, just greedy executives.

[@iamfuturetrunks]

Hmm unfortunately looks like ubisoft already messed with this. Got brotherhood and revelations on uplay. Then took a few days before steam finally refunded but now a week or two later checking my uplay and the games are now missing. As if I never had them in the first place. Which stinks was looking forward to playing through some of the assassin creed games again from the beginning. Though the first game couldn't get a key for. I already had assassins creed 2 from a giveaway a long time ago on uplay but im not gonna spend money on brotherhood and revelations when I already own them for PS3.

[@abandonedmuse]

I have a sneaky suspicion that there’s steam employees on here watching for his exploits. I was watching once, and it was an hour after he posted the video, i got my free game, then bam, as i was trying to get the cdkey, it disappeared. About an hour and 15 minutes had passed since he posted. They must be watching.

[@jeremiah1293]

Well screw Ubisoft anyway, but this is a fun bonus way to do it. Kudos

[@applemt0157]

Thx for releasing this after the summer sale

[@csonweedagain5054]

I think that's on you for not finding it first mate

[@applemt0157]

@@csonweedagain5054 bro wtf

[@TheGreatestChuck]

What does it matter if you can refund the games?

[@HEKVT]

If Steam gave away games like Epic, that would be very cool.

[@Dakoya]

I agree, very cool

[@thespiffingbrit]

@@Dakoya also agree very cool

[@pulpulman5916]

@@thespiffingbrit also agree very cool

[@Teodor_Smith]

@@pulpulman5916 also agree very cool

[@Ziru0Gaming]

I’d opt-in for henti games on my main account so It doesn’t look like I bought them 👀

[@Aus420]

I love it when a sale is perfectly balanced.

[@bannah6400]

This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!

[@tipsysmichigander6483]

Thanks - Worked for Pet Horsez 3 perfectly! Quite literally one of the best games ever released!

[@Haruharu792]

I would love to imagine the Ubisoft and Steam employee right now panicking in the HQ

[@xanpenguin754]

The only problem with using this for paradox games is you have to use the paradox launcher. I would rather pay full price for the DLCs.

[@havesomeslav]

Christ, it all began with just simple video game exploits. Now Spiff is literally stealing from multimillion pound companies. Respect!

[@Ashtarte3D]

Literally as soon as Spiff said "Ubisoft games for free" I was like "oh, that uPlay ownership refund exploit." Many years ago my bff made me buy The Division to play it with him, but the game was a crashtastic nightmare for me so I refunded it. I still own it on uPlay despite getting my money back the same day. So knew where this video was going immediately.

[@bannah6400]

This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!

[@amoliski]

"We hate DRM! DRM sucks!!!!!" CDPR: no DRM on our games "Lmao suckers, copy and refund suckersssss" This is how we get more DRM.

[@someonespotatohmm9513]

The lack of drm also means that it is potentialy easier to pirate than to use the method in the video. But it also the reason I have never pirated stuff that is availible on GOG.

[@KasumiRINA]

Meh, I literally downloaded games from Steam during free weekends and then installed crack on top. Hell, you can find some sites that give Steam copies without cracks and sometimes people literally use those to preload games they gonna buy later anyway because pirating is often faster lmao.

[@Draganot1]

a pirate was never a customer to begin with. it really doesnt matter if some people take advantage of no drm to get the product for free, they never intended on paying. Drm really only hurts legitimate customers.

[@matheusjahnke8643]

That is, of course, assuming you finance them. Have you ever heard of a pirate suffering from DRM? They get the game, "crack" it, modifying so it executes even when the player didn't obtain it legitimately, then share it around. Note that DRM might make the cracking slower, which might be useful(or not, I won't enter on the discussion) to make the sales before the pirates can crack it and share a... *free* version.

[@I.____.....__...__]

You forgot that Ubisoft pulling the servers also affects NON-online single-player games that use online DRM, like _Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands_ which doesn't contain some of the code on the disc; it does an online DRM check on startup and downloads the missing code from the servers. If the servers aren't available, it can't do the online check, and thus, that missing code (eg the code to open some doors when you step on some switch-plates), won't exist and the game will be broken. 😒

[@NovaMaster375]

Tbh some people will prob have yoinked that data somehow and made it into a downloadable file

[@MrWheyne]

@@NovaMaster375 Yes, it's what we, erudites, call "Crack".

[@Arcanua]

He kinda does mention them tho indirectly through the multiple times mentioning they're destroying their backlog. That PoP game is in their backlog.

[@JasonNZ42]

Yes, this point is much more important than some online modes nobody plays anymore shutting down

[@Frameton.]

Thanks for delaying the release of this video to literally an hour after the summer sale ended. Really helpful

[@thespiffingbrit]

it works regardless of the steam summer sale being live

[@Frameton.]

@@thespiffingbrit well in that case i'm gonna go and have some fun

[@Azzie420]

Oh cool reliving my childhood, but for Free! You truly are marvellous spiff

[@marekslazak1003]

Not the 1st time ubi does something like that. I still remember playing ghost recon phantoms - was my favorite game to chill with friends untill they decided it was not longer profitable so they just closed the servers completely

[@Wilden2]

Oh man I wish the video was released an hour before the sale ends

[@rafaelgsbr]

I did it 2 weeks ago with Brotherhood and Revelations. It worked, I got my refund and the games stayed, but I just noticed now that the games are gone from my Ubisoft Connect library. Damn, I just finished AC2 and was gonna start Brotherhood :(

[@Draxacks]

Osea, ya fueron parcheados?

[@rafaelgsbr]

@@Draxacks aparentemente sí. tardo unos dias pero los juegos desaparecieron de la biblioteca

[@thecyberrabbit1440]

Reading the description, I don’t really get how this is similar to RT’s channel. He breaks stuff by accident, and kinda just ruins everything he touches in the funniest way possible. You go out of your way to turn the game to dust at every opportunity, and it’s hilarious.

[@Krexxal]

The description has a bunch of buzzwords that allow Spiff to play with the algorithm

[@thespiffingbrit]

RT is one of the content inspirations for my style. If you mix all of the names together you end up with me!

[@resileaf9501]

Spiff's style has changed over the years but he has kept this description ever since he got into this brand of video.

[@panda93247]

These exploits are hilarious. Glory to Spiff!!!

[@drsupergood8978]

To me it looks like the issue is with the third party launchers rather than with valve/steam. The status of the key is not being tracked between the two services. When a game is refunded the key should be marked as refunded/void/revoked/expired in steam's database. When the steam key is entered into a third party launcher it should then query with steam if that key is still valid and if not then fail with the response returned by steam. It looks like steamworks might not have a secure web API for this, instead relying on manual lookup, such as for customer service or tech support personal. As such it is unlikely that valve intends developers to even authenticate their products in this way. Instead it seems that what should happen is a user shows up with a steam key and is redirected to steam to insert the key (the exploit would be fixed here). The user's steam account is then linked to the third party launcher's account so the third party knows their steam UID. The third party then queries all their steam products and exposes any that return with valid licences as available to the user in their third party client.

[@obzai]

Everything after your first sentence is unnecessary. Scrap third party launchers outright and let us just play our games launched from Steam like the old days. I go off-grid for long periods and third party launchers constantly misfire on authentication attempts in the absence of a reliable net connection preventing me from playing games I paid for. Scrap them and let Steam handle it, it works better.

[@Jillas666]

As far as I'm aware it isn't a real exploit, because like you said, after you refunded the game on Steam, your key will be marked as void and it will also remove the game from a third party launcher, and I believe it is an automated process, there's just a few days lag before that information gets to the third party, but it will happen no matter what, so it's a very lame exploit that only allows you to play a refunded game for a couple of days more...

[@obzai]

@@Jillas666 Ironic how my experience is that I only get to play games I've legitimately bought for a few days as well. How we laughed

[@softbread1728]

@@obzai unnecessary? What do you mean lmao? They are just explaining a plausible reason why the exploit is possible, they never gave their opinion about launching the games from Steam like the "old days"

[@drsupergood8978]

​@@BluntsNBeatz Steam should still keep them in sync though. There is a website that developers who own an application can validate keys for that application to see their standing with steam. Such keys should flag as refunded/expired/revoked. However it is possible the key format has changed over time, especially as steam grew and the original key format might not support enough unique keys. I suspect that might be where the previous exploit came from as such an old game/product using an old, deprecated, key was having the key regenerated every time it was attached as a work around. With this exploit these old games also used shorter keys and the third party is forced to accept them with minimal validation so that old copies of the game still function correctly if obtained from physical retail. It is also possible that there is some strange agreement that the third party generates the keys, which might explain why the refund data is not kept in sync.

[@clemzou.]

if would be cool if we could create a list of all steam games that can work with this technique, not only ubisoft, just a written list of the games + the platform it works with

[@amoliski]

So you can steal more games?

[@Macks_Mustermann]

@@amoliski that’s the idea

[@mersikka]

@@amoliski Look what video you're on bro

[@KasumiRINA]

@@amoliski yasss, I feel that playing a NON-pirated Black Flag is somehow... wrong.

[@napoleondynomite4053]

Yo that's exactly what I was thinking and I've been looking everywhere to see if anyone has done something like this but so far I've found nothing

[@Chromemecha]

Petz horsez 2 had me in tears for 2 weeks when I was like 6 cuz I was taking my horse out for a trail ride only to come back and find out that my barn had been burned down by a smoker. I couldn’t finish the puzzles in time, I’d always be a few seconds short. Also if you couldn’t rebuild the blueprints to remake your barn you could only take care of your foals. Mine were sick constantly cuz I couldn’t figure out how to take their asses to the vet

[@KeloSerg]

The only downside to this is having a Ubisoft game

[@RGRDrangon]

Ah yes, I love the ways of exploiting big corperations that make so much money to the point where they completely miss loopholes and get-a-rounds that they have created themselves. Definitely makes my wallet quite relaxed and calm. Btw, is it another possible exploit to use said CD keys finder application to find Steam keys for all the games you've ever purchased, refund all of those said Steam games, and then using those CD Keys in Steam to get the games again but for completely free?

[@bruhtholemew]

Keys for most modern games are deactivated once you refund them. For example, if you buy a game on humble bundle and then refund it, a day later Steam will tell you your game was removed. This exploit only really works with older games that'd show you the key when you started the game, but newer games don't do that anymore. Spiff did this same exploit to EA games a long time ago, and EA's response was to remove the key pop-up for their old games.

[@skem9622]

You should try the dystopian game of frostpunk, id love to see you play it. although, it might be too dystopian for you as theres no tea in the artic

[@GroxEmpire]

I had the same exploit years ago. Back then. Steam had a free weekend for 40K Dawn of War Goty edition. I curiously checked if there was a CD key on it, in which it did. I activated the key and got it for free forever.

[@typeins]

i dont get it how to find the cd key in the files

[@MaxisFensterreinigung]

@@typeins same :( some show me please

[@bapo224]

Spiff please stop, Gaben's going to remove the refund function if you keep this up!

[@CliffordChang-v8c]

Not if the European and Australian courts have a say in it

[@elobiretv]

lol Steam wouldn't have even put the refund function in if it wasn't for some countries forcing them to.

[@graye2799]

4:30 cyberpunk has its issues, but doing that to non drm games simply means non drm games are less likely to make them.

[@JohnDoe-es3gm]

Notif ganggg

[@naidr0x]

lessssgooooo

[@andrewplatt7076]

Starting to think Steam might just block all refunds eventually, or at least make it much harder...

[@UltimatelyEverything]

Spiff is the only KZbinr i can watch no matter what he uploads it could be anything and i'll watch it all the way to the end.

[@braedyntomlinson1021]

Yeah same

[@doublinx2]

Hi about that DRM free exploit, please don't exploit it. Having games just use Steam DRM is ideal but DRM free games are even better, so that you don't get situations like what happened with Xbox live going down or PS3 titles 'expiring' or some other doomsday situation. Exploiting this just gives developers excuses to add more DRMs on top that will probably break and leave the game unusable in the future.

[@zahfa7608]

Keeping the tradition alive like a true Brit.

[@isoniazidsive]

2:20 Ohmeohmy my favourite band, ACDkey

[@Caramelhorse1]

Patched, now when you use the key on Uplay, it redirects to steam when you try to open it.

[@bhimawaskita2540]

Usually im againts this kind of act because im a game developer and i know how frustrating when ur hard work get stolen. But in this case, do it till ubisoft putting back the online things

[@Rekkuza-eu6sp]

Pick up your cross and follow Jesus! The world is quickly headed for destruction, and sooner or later you will have to sit at the judgement seat and give an account for your actions. Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life! - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God tho. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc and you should get a response. Have a blessed day!

[@9P-TTRPG]

Hi, Spiffing Brit! Perhaps not your cup of tea (or perhaps it *is* yours but still does not make good KZbin content) but I recently started playing the "Arkham Horror Living Card Game" by Fantasy Flight games and it has some amazingly broken exploits and synergies. Do you ever do board/card game videos?

[@paleflame]

Seeing what games Ubisoft is taking down from steam a few days after this video, I get a strange feeling that it's not a coincidance.

[@randomgamer6793]

Apple Arcade is totally balanced except for the factor that you get a two month free trial with a newly purchased Apple device to which all your downloaded games will still last after the two month period, and better yet your family members or anybody who you add to your Apple family can download off your recently purchased tab basically meaning anybody in the world can get all the Apple Arcade games for absolutely free as long as your in the Apple family? Now isn’t that just marvelous?

[@CuznLuvn69]

I'm a bit late but congrats on 3 mil! Well deserved

[@Iron_Hawk]

It suprises me that this is still a doable exploit. Like in theory all steam would need to do is have some call to the third party launchers to see if the key has been redeemed or not, and if it has, then not give the refund on steam, but I guess that would be too much work lol

[@OzixiThrill]

It would require enforcing a standard communication channel between Steam and every launcher, as well as those third parties willingly sharing such data with someone they are trying to compete with.

[@RK-252]

Yeah, and to be honest it's not stream's problem. If a user tries to claim a refunded key on the publisher's own platform, it's the platform's responsibility to validate the key. More often than not, it's just not worth the paperwork, unless there is a sudden influx of bad keys and it becomes a larger problem.

[@thekispol]

Okay, you got a subscriber now, bro is showing the best thing for the internet.

[@Jimmy___]

I understand obliterating Ubisoft or even CDPR but I think it's pretty lame to promote stealing DRM-free games. A few developers are releasing their games without DRM in good faith and promoting that type of theft will just lead to fewer and fewer devs making that choice.

[@kate_vye810]

I dont get how these drm free games work.... There's Ao3 with a cd key, does that mean I can transfer it to ms store? Tried... Dont work... Also other random games like gta or CoD4 has those keys.... DE fuk I do with those?

[@plumber1337]

Wait... CD key... CD. Where ave I heard that before... Corgi Domination?

[@BlackAnno3397]

I'm so furious about Anno 2070. I love that game. It was the first Anno game I played and because of it I fell in love with the whole franchise. It will be a shame to see it go.

[@alphapolimeris]

I am a bit worried that the more these things get exploited, the heavier the DRM will get... You see, everything is fine now because Steam isn't evil. But as for every company, we have to understand that they are not evil *yet*. One day, someone is going to say "hey, why don't we secure things with always online" and he won't be thrown rotten tomatoes hard enough to forever prevent him to try again.

[@404fanfanboy]

Sooooooo... Xbox One when it was announced?

[@rugerredhawk9065]

It seems like a more traceable, time expansive, and easy to remove version of piracy to me :-/

[@alexfrank5331]

Thanks genius for helping stores justify BLOCKING REFUNDS. Our argument as been, people are not going to refund the product but actually keep the product. Well... can't say that anymore.

[@bestfilmmakersever]

Yo is there a list that shows the games where the cd keys are easily obtained, bc for me getting the secret cd keys didnt work. If not feel free to tell me which games are working.

[@Rekkuza-eu6sp]

Pick up your cross and follow Jesus! The world is quickly headed for destruction, and sooner or later you will have to sit at the judgement seat and give an account for your actions. Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life! - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God tho. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc and you should get a response. Have a blessed day!

[@TrueBlue_01]

@@Rekkuza-eu6sp stop

[@abhijeetpoudel5919]

Spread your cheeks for more episodes of the "Robbing Gabien" show

[@thespiffingbrit]

They are hidden free games... ;)