‘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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gtapro151Posted:

thats ok its a game ment to be online its different then xbox originally trying to force EVERY game online.

AchePosted:

I don't feel the punishments are too harsh, but they are something to look further into.

I'll most likely just turn them off when I get around to purchasing the game, however.

TehHamburgerPosted:

I spent 36 hours and beat the game and was only invaded 2 or 3 times max. So ill keep this feature on

AR15Posted:

I don't know if this was supposed to happen or not, but...

I turned this off and never got ANY of these punishments for doing so?

XboxPosted:

well this kinda sucks but still cool game.

RinPosted:

Don't think it would bother me if it that's the punishment. I'm gonna turn it off once I get the game.

DJMarkyMarkPosted:

I don't really think that the punishments are too severe. I have been playing the game for a couple of hours each day since it has been released and I have only experienced around 5 invasions.

lolohnoeszszPosted:

when multiplayer is also intergrated into SP it ruins the SP experience. SINGLE PLAYER should stay SINGLE PLAYER. not i have to waste 5 minutes looking for some moron ruining my fun.

YinPosted:

I disabled it before I even started the game, so it did not affect me any. Even just the online tutorial mission that occurs early on in the story irritated me. Not a fan of that.

Bebe_RexhaPosted:

It's only ever happened twice to me, and I've put a few hours into it :P
It livens it up a bit too, don't see why you'd want to disable it?


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