Rainbow Six Siege is still struggling after hackers gave away “billions” of in-game currency, forcing Ubisoft to briefly “intentionally” shut down the game.
While Ubisoft didn't share details, players reported that the hackers banned and unbanned thousands of players, took control of the ban channel, gave all players 2 billion credits and fame each, and unlocked every premium skin for all players for free.
The hackers then suspended dozens of fake accounts “so that usernames displayed Michael Jackson's Billie Jean lyrics on screen,” as shown below.
While Ubisoft says the issue is now resolved, the game's service page states that issues persist across the board.
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After notification Following the December 27 “incident,” the publisher “intentionally shut down” Siege and its marketplace “while the team focused on resolving the issue.”
He also confirmed that while he reversed erroneous transactions, “no one will be banned for spending credits received” and reminded players that the ban ticker was disabled in a previous update.
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“An official wave of R6 ShieldGuard bans has indeed occurred, but is not related to this incident,” Ubisoft added. “We are working very hard to ensure that the problem is resolved and players can play again.
“The rollback is currently ongoing and extensive quality control testing will be conducted to ensure the integrity of accounts and the effectiveness of the changes,” the team added in a subsequent update on X/Twitter. “The team is focused on getting players back into the game as quickly as possible.
“Please know that this matter is being handled with extreme caution and therefore timing cannot be guaranteed. We will provide another update as soon as we know more. Thank you everyone for your patience and understanding as we continue to resolve this issue.”
Then, on December 28, Ubisoft launched a “soft launch” that opened the game to only a “small number of players” while it completed live tests. Yesterday, December 29th, the tests ended and the game opened up to everyone again.
However, as a consequence, players experienced queues when connecting, and while players who did not log in during the affected period should not see any changes, those who did “may temporarily lose access to some items they own. Investigations and corrections will continue over the next two weeks.”
The marketplace remains closed “until further notice.”
“We appreciate your patience as we work diligently to investigate the cause of these known issues and ensure the entire community can return to playing Siege,” Ubisoft said in its latest official announcement. communication.
However, at the time of writing the game service status page suggests that “unplanned” outages persist, with connectivity, authentication, in-game store and matchmaking listed as “degraded” or showing a complete “failure” on every single platform (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and last-gen systems). It is not clear why this time.
