{"id":88287,"date":"2026-08-26T14:29:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88287"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:36:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:36:45","slug":"ubisoft-sold-a-game-but-forgot-to-include-the-literal-game-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88287","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft Sold A Game But Forgot To Include The Literal Game Part"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ubisoft&#8217;s recent re-release of the original Heroes of Might and Magic 3 on <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/4921760\/Heroes_Of_Might_And_Magic_III\/\">Steam<\/a> couldn&#8217;t have gone much worse, as Ubisoft literally forgot to include the game files.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The arrival of the turn-based strategy classic should have been an easy win for the publisher, offering an all-time-great game, bundled alongside its two expansions, for $10 ahead of a full remake slated to arrive next year. The only issue is when players forked over the cash and installed it, they noticed the &#8220;game&#8221; was only 23.49KB in size.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As players soon discovered, Ubisoft had forgotten to include the actual game files for Heroes of Might and Magic 3. Users took to <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/app\/4921760\/reviews\/?browsefilter=toprated#scrollTop=0\">Steam&#8217;s user reviews<\/a> to warn others and express their disbelief. According to one user, trying to play the game instead opened a command prompt window with the text &#8220;Dummy executable ensure that you are on the right Steam branch.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As one negative user review on Steam states, &#8220;Best CMD prompt simulator of 2026. 10\/10.&#8221; Others continued the pile on, stating &#8220;You will own nothing and be happy,&#8221; while another asked &#8220;Dude, where&#8217;s my game?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This has since been fixed to include the actual game people paid for, but according<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft&#8217;s recent re-release of the original Heroes of Might and Magic 3 on Steam couldn&#8217;t have gone much worse, as Ubisoft literally forgot to include the game files. The arrival of the turn-based strategy classic should have been an easy win for the publisher, offering an all-time-great game, bundled alongside its two expansions, for $10&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":88289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88290,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88287\/revisions\/88290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}