Évacuation chez Ubisoft en 2020 | Fausse prise d’otages, vraie vengeance
Un citoyen français, tricheur notoire dans l’univers des jeux vidéo, serait le principal suspect dans une affaire inventée de toute pièce qui a provoqué un déploiement important de forces policières à Montréal. Banni du célèbre jeu Rainbow Six par Ubisoft, il aurait tenté d’obtenir le pouvoir de...
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The article is in French but the gist of it is;
- The person responsible for the evacuation of the Ubisoft Montreal offices back in November 2020 has been identified as a notorious French Rainbow Six Siege cheater, who has been banned over 80 times from the game by the "ethic committee" of Ubisoft for cheating. The player also has an history of swatting and also created a fake Ubisoft website to scam people into giving him their passwords.
- The primary motive is believed to be a desire to ban other players, due to being banned himself.
- There was two other similar false alarms following the events of November 2020, in December 2020 and January 2021.
- The French cheater denies having anything to do with the evacuation or the other two false alarms.
- He defends himself, claiming that he "only" cheated in a video game. The only time he ever called Ubisoft was to throw insults at them, he says.
- Ubisoft did not comment, fearing it would interfere with the investigation.
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