14 DAY TRIAL // Watch Dogs was finally released yesterday, May 27, worldwide and quite a few problems have popped up, especially on the PC platform, leading many angry users to start bombing the score of the game on review aggregator websites.
Watch Dogs was eagerly awaited by many gamers, especially since Ubisoft pledged to deliver a polished experience after a big delay that caused the title to miss its initial November release date last year.
Yesterday, May 27, Watch Dogs was officially launched worldwide across the PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One platforms. Plenty of early copies made their way into the hands of eager gamers before then, but yesterday was the time everyone could get it officially.
Unfortunately for those who were eager to play the game, it's currently experiencing a lot of problems across all platforms.
On both current and last-gen consoles, the title has game-breaking bugs that erase the progress of players, while on the PC it has a suite of other issues, like the disrupt_b64.dll one, and the uPlay service that's required for the game to run is experiencing outages and offline periods.
As such, many angry users who weren't able to access the game or were barely managing to play it have resorted to giving Watch Dogs low scores on review aggregator website Metacritic.
By far the angriest are PC users, who have taken the game's rating to 4.4 out of 10, citing bad performance, Uplay issues, and all sorts of other problems. Bugs, glitches, stupid AI, and a disappointing story or main character were also pointed out by users.
What's more, most of the low marks are motivated in good ways and lengthy explanations, so it's not like users logged in just to bomb the score without any reason.
Low user scores are also present on the pages of the last-gen editions of Watch Dogs, as it has 4.4 out of 10 on PS3 and 4.5 on Xbox 360. The next-gen versions do a little bit better, with 5.4 on Xbox One and 5.9 on PS4.
The official metascore for Watch Dogs revolves around 80 out of 100, so the game isn't exactly reaching the pinnacle of quality envisioned by Ubisoft for the new project. It's going to be interesting to see if the title will be able to ensure good enough sales for the publisher to deem it a success and greenlight a sequel for the Montreal team.