‘Watch Dogs’ Will Punish Players Unless They Are Always Online

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Online integration seems to be a big part of the Watch Dogs experience however, it seems you will be punished if you decide to turn off online invasions in the game.

As this picture shows, if you decide to disable online invasions you will be faced with a harsh punishment from Ubisoft stating:

“By disabling Online Invasions you will not be available for other players to invade, but you will also not be able to participate in Online Hacking and Tailing. Your Notoriety will be reset to zero and any Notoriety Skills you have unlocked will be lost.

Do you want to disable Online Invasions?

It seems that the always online feature is becoming more and more prevalent in modern games such as Need For Speed: Rivals and now Watch Dogs.

We were originally going to see the always online feature in the Xbox One but during the reveal the backlash from the Xbox community had that decision overturned pretty quickly.

What do you think of this online “feature” from Ubisoft? Does it bother you? Will if effect your choice to play Watch Dogs online or not?



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StonerzardPosted:

This is stupid, earlier I was thinking about what's the point in making the game as easiest for yourself as possible? But then I realised that because some people prefer playing easier games, so game companies should be making games with that in mind, that each player has a different preference so the more options you allow, like stopping online invasions should be down to whether the user wants online invasions enabled or not.

thelightPosted:

iiExaMplezZz Looks like I wont be getting this then. My PS3 is constantly dropping connection so id be ****.



Pininfarina Wow this is really dumb! I probably won't get this game.



These "punishments" do not happen unless you actually go to the options menu and manually TURN IT OFF.

CartierPosted:

Wow this is really dumb! I probably won't get this game.

EuphemismPosted:

This game really flopped... some of the mechanics in it are just awful.

iiExaMplezZzPosted:

Looks like I wont be getting this then. My PS3 is constantly dropping connection so id be ****.

SallySPosted:

I don't mind this, I found out a sneaky way to know if someone's in your game anyway.

Press the pause button and if the background is still moving someone's in your game, you can't pause an online game.
Also it's always worth when your in a security camera to look at your self, if you come up as not a threat and is in blue someone is in your game.

XsplayPosted:

This game looks less appealing each day

-Cookie-Posted:

That really sucks but it could be worse I guess. I can't really take my ps3 JB online as i'm not going to risk wasting a CID :)

nblzPosted:

nblz Hopefully this doesn't effect you if you internet goes out and you jut want to play online.


i meant 'just want to play offline'.. sorry for the double post

nblzPosted:

Hopefully this doesn't effect you if you internet goes out and you jut want to play online.


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