25 January, 2017 – chrisvGP Team

Ghost Recon Wildlands Regional Restrictions (Activation through Uplay)

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands has region restrictions applied and can not be activated from specific countries!

If you are located in one of the countries below, activation will NOT work for you:

American Samoa, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, People's Republic of China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Montserrat, Nagorno-Karabakh, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Pridnestrovie (Transnistria), Puerto Rico, Russia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands, South Ossetia, Suriname, Tajikistan, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Wake Island

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chrisvGP Team 1 0 16.03.2017 01:05

Hey there! Agreed, it makes no sense to lock those keys, but they are. Locks on Ubi games have been applied since the release of Watch_Dogs 2, thus The Division worked for you.

According to the documents provided by Ubisoft, Ukraine is within the RU-CN region and would thus not work.

I saw you ordered Wildlands Gold from us, so assume you could activate without any issues?

Pink Grip 1 0 16.03.2017 18:42

@chrisv

I am actually in Switzerland, so was able to activate it without problems. Asking about Ukraine because I have friends there who would like to buy Wildlands using your site, but are reluctant because of these activation restrictions.

There are RU/CN versions available, they are cheaper than English ones, but
a) Russian localizations are often quite sloppy and inferior to English originals
b) Russian is becoming less popular because of the war between countries
So people that have no problems with speaking English prefer to play games without any localizations. And in this case it looks like Ubisoft forces them to activate keys through VPNs and, potentially, be marked as some sort of violators.

chrisvGP Team 1 0 16.03.2017 20:08

@Pink Grip

We know some people are activating through VPN and even if we were to prevent that, it's really close to impossible. I've never heard of any penalty on VPN usage with Uplay, though. Do you have any further information on this?

Pink Grip 1 0 16.03.2017 21:54

No, I do not.
It is just my assumption that any blocks are there not for people to circumvent them. Else it doesn't make sense. And that if you do something that you are not supposed to, there are might be penalties.

It might not be possible for you to prevent activations through VPNs. But it is easy for Ubisoft to compare activation location with actual product use location. So I would expect it to be easy for them to detect such cases.

I've just sent questions about this to Ubisoft support. If there is any response - I will share it here.

Thank you for doing what you can to help!

chrisvGP Team 1 0 16.03.2017 22:38 (Edited)

Those locks are in place to prevent the free float of activations from "cheap regions" to more expensive ones. Ukraine is an edge case and I agree locking them to RU/CN only seems stupid, given the choice to purchase activations from western europe, which would be more expensive.

We're actively exchanging on those edge cases with publishers and hope to make a change (one day).

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Ghost Recon Wildlands Regional Restrictions (Activation through Uplay)

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