I'm very much familiar with the physics here and there is supposed to be something at the junction of the jack and the cable to stiffen things out so that all of the force isn't being applied to this small area. Woudln't surprise me if the chips being damaged was the result of shorts developing. I can't comment on the people that are having trouble from the chip, but I have seen folks complaining about the cable crackling when it's moved, and that's often times the result of damage to the connections there. So yes, the cable was improperly engineered, and I'm hardly the only person that's having this problem. The one they bundle with RS has no stress relief of any sort.
Even on $5 earbuds you have that and usually they've got that 90 degree bend at the jack as well just to make it even more secure. Every other audio cable I've bought over the years has stress relief where the jack connects to the cable, because that's the most likely place for the cable to break. If it can't stand up to that, then I would certainly call it improperly engineered as the amount of abuse it's gotten from me has been precisely nihil. I apparently made the mistake of trying to use it to check the tuning while I had the guitar sitting on its side. I've been treating it with a great deal of care. I've had my RS cable for about a year now, and it's been accidentally unplugged a few times, but it still works as well as the day I bought it, and I'd hardly call it poorly made, or improperly engineered. I feel betrayed by this company, I feel stupid for paying for the game.ĭon't be stupid like me and buy the game on steam. One of the best fps games ever made.Īnyways this rant is over. But now this game is costing me around 80Euros with the cable, 8 euros more than the brand new Battlefield 4 + premium subscription with 5 expansion packs. I would love to get a refund on my game and buy a bundle with the cable online for the same price as the Steam version. Steam doesn't even offer a refund on your games! I really don't see the point of selling this game on steam if you can't even play it as soon as you buy it. Something like "You will not be able to play this game without buying our 30$ cable additionally." Ubisoft, please make this cable requirement more clear in the Steam store.
The only way I saw around this problem was to crack the game. It seemed that the legit version I had bought was unable to bypass the cable requirement.
I tried to follow people's instructions on how to bypass this cable requirement but without a luck. Turns out, there is no way of bypassing this. So I bought the game, got very excited, but as I ran the calibration, the game asked me to plug in my cable. So I started reading up on it online, and sure enough, I saw people posting success stories using their normal guitar cables + adapter. They cant really FORCE me to buy this cable just to do something as simple as this, can they? So I thought, well I have a pretty powerful computer here which is more than capable of doing that. I bought it on Steam yesterday, the steam store said that the game needed a unique guitar chord which converts the analog signal from the guitar to a digital signal. I didn't realize not using the cable would be a 'hack'.