A PS Vita demo for Michael Jackson: The Experience accidentally provides free access to the entire game. The error has been in place since the demo went live and will probably be fixed as soon as an Ubisoft rep gets back into the office and realizes somebody done f*cked up.
Quite a few of those with an early Vita have taken advantage of Ubisoft's mistake. In the name of investigative journalism, I tried it myself, and having earned a Trophy for making Michael Jackson do that funny zombie dance, I can confirm it's the full game. Yeah, don't expect it to stay that way for long.
How ironic. Ubisoft forces terrible DRM into its games to stop them being downloaded for free, but ... something ... about the clever point I was making ... about stuff.
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7:00 AM on 02.15.2012 | 
Ubisoft just trolls the pirates "See, you would even play shit like that, you lousy worms!" ;)
Guys, I think it's clear that this DRM issue isn't grey.
It's either Black or White.
What about money?
What about all the things
That Ubi said we were to gain?
What about making sales?
Is Ubi insane?
What about all the games
That Ubi said were yours and mine?
Did you ever stop to notice
All the shit they've done before
Did you ever stop to notice
that Sterling's a weeping ... guy? ;D
It has come to my attention that you recently exploited a mistake made on the part of the video game publisher Ubisoft, obtaining and subsequently playing the game "Michael Jackson: The Experience" without having paid for it. While I expect private investigators are already en route to your no doubt stolen home to offer you the only possible means of rectifying this grievous act of theft, I find it prudent to inform you that you are now on my shit list. The minute Industrial Light and Magic finishes my expertly crafted Groucho Marx disguise, and its impressive cache of special effects both vexes and amazes voters long enough to allow my heavily oiled nude body to slide into law, I should hope you would have the sense to simply turn yourself in, rather than force me to kick your no doubt stolen door in.
Turn your Anonymous cohorts in now, and I may find myself compassionate enough to rotate my hand 180 degrees before I introduce it to your teeth, sparing you a deadly backhand encounter with the only functioning Green Lantern ring in existence.
Respectfully,
SOPA
Shut the fuck up.
Respectfully,
The crazy motherfucker in a yellow Bat-suit
The rest is history... OUUWW!
I'm looking at the Jim in the mirror, and I'm asking him to change his ways.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPTsmswQVwg
This is also the day limited edition users get their PS VITA so, the people responsible for this accident just added to the overall value.
I'm leaving now...
Um.
AOOO!!!