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Watch Dogs Retail Version Leaked Online A Week Before Its Official Release

GearNuke: "The long delayed Watch Dogs is just about a week away from its official release and now it seems that hackers have managed to leak the official retail version of the game online."

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do we need to do this for every game ?
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Eonjay3625d ago (Edited 3625d ago )

"The PS3 version was already being sold in retail stores in Brazil while the PS4 version street date was also broken, and is already being played by a couple of users, resulting in more footage and info of the game being shared online"

Would 343 Industries' Frank O'Connor start blaming people about dumb embargoes leaks and spoilers if he realized that leaks happen. You can't control the world. On top of the intentional studio leaks (Such as Halo 2 which was basically leaked by Larry Hyrb and his bee references), there are bound to be instances like this.

Anyway, it seems like street dates are being broken on a consistent basis.

porkChop3625d ago (Edited 3625d ago )

The thing I find hilarious about the Frank O'Connor stuff is that he doesn't seem to realize that if info about your secret projects get leaked it's because the information came from YOUR EMPLOYEES. Don't blame insiders for relaying information, they didn't leak the info, someone leaked it TO them.

@LordDhampire

And? That doesn't change anything. The fact is that the leaks are coming straight from the source. Blaming insiders is just plain stupid.

LordDhampire3625d ago

No, it could be from your publishers employee

jetlian3625d ago

its not stupid the media already knows most of whats being shown at e3. Thats how they plan the e3 shows get crews to certain events at certain times

gamer11383625d ago

This and Frank O'Connor's comments have nothing to do with one another. This is piracy NOT insiders leaking information that may or may not be true about games in development that people are slaving over. Games which could be over a year away. Troll somewhere else.

Eonjay3625d ago

This game is under embargo. His comments were about people leaking details about games before hand; which has happened multiple times. In addition stores are selling the game early so that is why we keep getting articles about details from the game. This has everything to do with what he was saying. I submit that it can not be helped.

Why so defensive?

showtimefolks3625d ago

Piracy how about its being sold on ebay with next day delivery options

and some stores are actually selling this

AgentSmithPS43624d ago

It's funny to me that the game is out there now for people to inspect since ubisoft appears to be covering up problems with the game since reviewers can't get the game early. If they know they made a great game they'd have nothing to worry about, they'd sell enough eventually regardless of reviews.

I want to believe that there's an Aiden-like person out there that crawled into the dark, greasy underbelly of ubisoft and exposed the truth ;).

I don't care if some other companies do the same thing, I just won't buy a game day one if they're too secretive, we have a right to know what we're getting into. Pre-order bonuses are something else that needs changing to protect consumers.

FalloutWanderer20773624d ago (Edited 3624d ago )

Exclusive pre-order bonuses along with day one/on the disc dlc ,have become a cancer that is slowly destroying gaming imo. "Destroying" is a harsh word but seriously,it is absolutely horrible how publishers and some game developers push these kind of "incentives" via retailers.

The sad part is,that there are many gamers out there who continue to feed into these practices.otherwise the publishers would begin to reduce,then eventually they'd stop doing it all together.

If they realized we were voting with our wallets and sales began hurting because the fans refused to give in again and again.feeding their cash cows.

For these reasons alone,I tend to wait certain games out until the GOTY/Definitive/Ultimate editions release. I still remember before Fallout: New Vegas released they had those courier,merc,vault pre-order packs at different stores. Unless you pirated those or waited forever until the ultimate edition came out,you would be pretty much forced to buy the game multiple times.

It is ridiculous. That there are people who do that for such little bonuses is a damn shame, if they are rich,hey more power to you but it just isn't fair to the gamers.

Better examples though would be say,Mass Effect 3 and the decision to make a story related character and pretty damn important if you ask me, day one DLC!! Sickening.

Reminds of the rumors (or was it real plans?)certain devs were going to make it if you bought the game used (pirated too of course)you would have to pay an additional amount of money to access the MP or finish the end game. Something like,a game with 10 levels,you would be locked out of the last level or 2!

IceKoldKilla3624d ago (Edited 3624d ago )

Brazil seems to be the only reported country. Here in Valencia, Spain FOR YEARS I've either bought games early or have had friends get them early. There's a store called Media Markt (sort of like Best Buy) near my house that will sell it as long as it's in stock. The dude working for years in the video-game section seems to either be dumb or not care. If you ask for a game and it's not on selves, you ask him to check in the back and he'll find it and bring it. And of course the lady at the register isn't gonna care or even know. I stopped though because I get games cheaper on Amazon :)

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DarkLordMalik3625d ago

Pretty much.

Plenty of sources of leaks like retail stores, journalists, insiders with connections, and devs themselves, so it is hard to control them.

The best way is to let the developers be more open to their fans and not hide info.

MidnytRain3625d ago

How is being more open to fans going to do about people leaking their games online>?

DarkLordMalik3624d ago

Actually, i made a new comment instead of replying to the first comment. My mistake.

Bonkerz3625d ago (Edited 3625d ago )

And people wonder why ALOT of games dont get released on PC, this is you're reason.
Stealing content is not cool, you are just hurting the people who are making our games.

pompombrum3625d ago (Edited 3625d ago )

If you bothered to actually read the article, you'd know that the version that got leaked was actually the 360 version and not the PC one.

Bonkerz3625d ago

You are not getting the point..

pompombrum3625d ago

I get the point perfectly clear.. you hate PC gaming.

Alex_Boro3625d ago

@Bonkerz there is no point. Pirating happens on any platform as proven by this article.

admiralvic3625d ago

"You are not getting the point.."

So the point wasn't that you didn't read the article and instantly blamed the PC, but that the game getting leaked for platform is why they don't release them on PC? Yeah... that makes sense...

hankmoody3625d ago

He's talking about the practice of hacking and leaking games for piracy purposes in general, which happens quite a bit with PC games. I thought he was pretty clear.

pompombrum3625d ago (Edited 3625d ago )

^^ Yet is completely unrelated to this topic.

ritsuka6663625d ago

And you pay 60$ for a game is right?

porkChop3625d ago

Gamers aren't hurting anyone. The employees who leak the games online are the ones hurting their own companies. If a bank employee were to walk into the street and throw a bunch of cash in the air, who would you blame? The employee or the people picking up the cash?

jmc88883624d ago (Edited 3624d ago )

Why would I blame anyone? It's money created out of thin air and backed by nothing.

It's not like any of that money was something people worked for.

These days they don't even need to print it, just add a '0' to the account.

Besides, while pirates, pirate all platforms, those that do, most were never going to buy the product anyways, and those that do buy it, never would of bought it, if they didn't pirate it to begin with.

Hell if anything piracy INCREASES SOFTWARE SALES.

Some people pirate and then buy, others just pirate. Piracy has also existed for a long, long time. Like since the 1970's, and it was BIG then.

Like as big as now, except instead on the internet, they were groups of people cracking and copying discs of Apple II games.

But when incompetent people are in charge, and stuff goes wrong, these incompetent people can always find suckers to believe their propaganda. Happens all the time.

Not directing this at you, just in general.

But it is hilarious when you think about how some people think copying a game is such a big evil, meanwhile what does the Federal Reserve do when they just make money out of thin air? It's like copying money and distributing it.

The Federal Reserve are Money Pirates....arrgh!

MadLad3625d ago

One, I still feel that this was as much an anti-PC statement as it was an anti-piracy statement. Two, games get pirated on console all the time. And in a big way. It's just not part of what is looked at as the norm, despite games being pirated in the millions on console as well, and is not talked about in the same light. Three, there are very few games that don't actually make it to the PC, not to mention PC has thousands of quality games that never make it to console. Developers seem to be fine with that and seem to be making a profit.

Plagasx3625d ago (Edited 3625d ago )

Also, console games are pirated weeks in advance compared to PC where you would have to wait for release..

A good example of this is GTA V and Gears of War Judgement.

choujij3625d ago (Edited 3625d ago )

Is it okay if I download a copy now and buy it upon release to support them =D?

Btw, nothing beats Halo 2 leaking almost a month before release.

starchild3624d ago (Edited 3624d ago )

Yet it's the console versions that are always leaked online and pirated well before the release date.

I agree with you that piracy is a bad thing and hurts the people making the games we love, but it's not a PC thing, it's a problem on consoles and PC.

I'm a PC gamer and I buy my games. Quit hating on the PC just because you don't game on PC.

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Eonjay3625d ago

Can you elaborate? What do you mean? Who is the thief. The people who paid the stores or the stores themselves who purchased the game from Ubisoft?

barb_wire3625d ago

I know the 360 version has leaked, was on one of my RSS feeds.

Still a shame - and a week before release too!

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The entire WatchDogs series is 87% off and it's not even Black Friday

If you are looking for a bargain, check out the huge discounts across the entire WatchDogs series on Steam.

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Watch Dogs Deserves A Remake, More Than Ever

With the world of information and technology, privacy and security growing every day, Watch Dogs deserves another chance in the spotlight, now more than ever.

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RaidenBlack1000d ago

The only Ubi title that deserves a faithful remake right now is Splinter Cell 1.
All 2014+ Ubi titles are just underwhelming. Especially ones from 2016+ are just cancer.

LucasRuinedChildhood1000d ago (Edited 1000d ago )

Seriously, are we so far removed from Ubisoft actually making good games that people now praise Watch_Dogs in retrospect?

"Watch_Dogs has remained one of my favourite games of the last ten years." Jesus Christ.

HankHill999d ago

I remember being so disappointed in Watch Dogs when I played it at release. It was alright, but I think I fell for the hype and I needed a game to play on my new PS4.

obidanshinobi999d ago

This is what happens when mediocrity gets praised as good.
Standards are slipping across the whole entertainment industry.
What was once considering rubbish is now considered as OK, what once was OK is now being praised as good etc etc.

LamerTamer999d ago

Everyone has their own likes. I liked it a lot myself. I played through it twice and liked the car chases and the open world with fairly decent environments and missions. It suffered from the whole downgrade thing where they showed graphics that weren't actually there. No game will appeal to everyone but it was still ambitious for it's time.

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gantarat1000d ago

assassin's creed 1 should get a remake.

ExBee1000d ago

For certain! AC1 was brilliant at the time but with new graphics and gameplay it would be amazing! Do you prefer old combat or new though?

RaidenBlack1000d ago

I'd say a reimagining of AC1.
I direct AC1 remake would be a bad idea. It'll need better story pacing and significant better world building.

BlaqMagiq1999d ago

Old. Let it play like how it did with AC2-Syndicate style gameplay but refine the setting and story.

Profchaos1000d ago

It would need a lot changed for it to be enjoyable again as even back in 2007 on launch we were all complaining about it's repetitive gameplay go here perform one of three side quests repeat then assassination now do it over and over until a big battle with a unforgiving checkpoint system.

BlaqMagiq1999d ago

Absolutely. It needs it. The only AC I truly didn't enjoy.

chicken_in_the_corn999d ago

I'd prefer it didn't. Ubisoft would make it so bloated, it wouldn't be anywhere near the original

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smolinsk1000d ago (Edited 1000d ago )

Absolutely, this watch dogs legion was terrible boring.

Profchaos1000d ago (Edited 1000d ago )

As a fan of the franchise legion was garbage and I regretted my purchase for the first time in the franchise the entire thing felt like an experiment in NPC behaviour and released without the writers input on what makes a good story.

I don't think I'm alone in that feeling though as wrench and Aiden are brought back and the campaign was rewritten to fit them.

I am tempted to buy the season pass to play it again with Aiden but fool me twice shame on me I'm waiting for a deep sale

camel_toad1000d ago

Agreed. Despite the annoying hipness of the characters in part 2 I thought it was a really fun game. I was extremely disappointed and surprised at how many steps back they took with Legion. You'd think it was made by an entirely different team. Or was it?

It was just so devoid of fun.

LamerTamer999d ago

Honestly one of my biggest annoyances with Legion is that they took out the camera views for the driving. I mean the behind the car view that they stuck us with is near unplayable. I always used a first person driving view. After two releases why did they take OUT features? I don't get it.

TheSinsibleOne1000d ago

The fist watchdog game was the best by far
After that they weren't weird and annoying with that hipster stuff. Aiden was a badass.

LamerTamer999d ago

I thought so at first too. I got used to it and it ended up being good after some play time. I just had to give it a chance.

TheEnigma3131000d ago

Remake the PoP series from xbox/ps2/gc era

RaidenBlack1000d ago

They are remaking Sands of Time.

TheEnigma313999d ago

That's good news. Hopefully it's done right.

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Inside the Driver game that died so that Watch Dogs could live

From VG247: "When cars slide, they leave tyre marks. In a game like Driver, they’re an aesthetic touch, part of the inherent cool of a handbrake turn. But those dark shadows in the road also tell a story. From tyre marks, you can determine the speed of a vehicle, when it started to skid, and its ultimate direction of travel – long after the car itself has vanished into the distance."

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vallencer1064d ago

Different spellings in different parts of the world friend. Tyre is a correct way to spell it.

Pridefall1064d ago

Dunno why you got downvpted when tyre is correct in Australia.

mikefizzled11064d ago

The mystery that is En Fore Gee

neutralgamer19921064d ago

Give us driver San Francisco remastered

IGiveHugs2NakedWomen1064d ago

Why did they stop making some of the best games ever? Driver was one of them.

Gameseeker_Frampt1064d ago

Assassins Creed 2 showed Ubisoft how to make money and Far Cry 2 showed them that gamers don't like complex ideas. Now Ubisoft just turns out games that are just variations of the same thing.

WeAreLegion1064d ago

Best driving mechanics ever made. Nothing has come close.

Gardenia1064d ago

A story driven game with pure driving gameplay. I'd love to see a new Driver game or a remake of the first one.

ApocalypseShadow1064d ago

Yes. This one. A definite remake of the first without adding any ridiculous fluff. The first game had great physics and sound for its time. The start of the car in the beginning cinema I watched constantly. My father and uncles were big muscle and classic car freaks. Only thing crazy about the game was the relentless cops in the last level. Insane the way those police cars were and launched at you.

Bleemcast made it look better just like PC emulators. But would definitely take a remake.

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