In the landscape of PC gaming, the relationship between official developer patches and the "scene" groups that crack and distribute games is a complex ecosystem. For Assassin’s Creed Rogue , a title initially released on consoles in 2014 before arriving on PC in 2015, the release of "Update v1.1.0" by the group CODEX represents a specific intersection of software support, digital rights management (DRM), and the preservation of gaming history.