A few days ago many users of Ubisoft’s Uplay client who had purchased some of their newest games from third-party retailers logged on to find that they no longer had access to their new games – mainly Far Cry 4. When they went searching for answers, Ubisoft and EA provided them with one – the keys in question had been bought with a stolen credit card and so had been deactivated. Now however Ubisoft have re-looked into the matter and decided that as the buyers were innocent victims in this case, they will reactivate keys for players who had already begun their journey into the game.

A representative told GameInformer by e-mail: “After further investigation into the matter of keys that were fraudulently purchased on EA’s Origin store, we are reinstating keys for consumers who already had successfully activated and started playing the games. Any remaining fraudulently obtained and resold keys have been deactivated.”

However Ubisoft have said they’ll be working closely with EA in future to stop such an event happening again and if it ever does, the keys that are deactivated are very likely to stay that way. They urged the players to remember that they could only trust purchases made from trusted retailers and shops such as Uplay and Steam, and that purchases made from other third-party retailers was made at their own risk. The two main third-parties who sold the keys were Kinguin and G2A and both made statements when it was discovered that the keys had been fraudulently obtained, stating that the seller had been an unknown Russian.