Splinter Cell: Blacklist Steam version rendered unlaunchable in numerous territories

Any of our readers affected by this issue?

 

Are there any particular workarounds that can be applied to fix the problem?

I've really been disappointed by Ubisoft's PC offerings recently. Square Enix has Nixxes doing amazing ports, EA has Origin (which I personally kind of like), 2K Games tends to do a pretty good job, and Activision just doesn't ever seem to make anything all that interesting, in my opinion.

 

Ubisoft, however, makes games I'm interested in but refuse to buy because of UPlay and problems like this. It's really annoying, considering they seem to be such a forward-thinking publisher in comparison to others. They've released some of their games on GOG.com, I guess they weren't profitable enough to warrant continuing such a practice.