14 DAY TRIAL // Watch Dogs came out on PC yesterday, May 27, and was plagued by a wide array of technical issues, not to mention problems with Ubisoft's Uplay service. As a result, gamers have begun criticizing the title using the customer review section on the game's Steam listing, leading to some angry yet hilarious results.
Watch Dogs was eagerly awaited by millions of gamers worldwide across the PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One platforms, especially since Ubisoft delayed it from its initial November, 2013 release in order to implement more improvements and extra polishing.
As such, when the game was released yesterday, May 27, worldwide, many fans quickly wanted to jump into the open world experience across all their different platforms.
Unfortunately, the end result wasn't that impressive and a wide variety of problems surfaced on all devices, particularly on the PC, as users were faced with errors and crashes, not to mention the seemingly constant outages of the uPlay service, which is required to play Ubisoft's games even if you bought them from other retailers, like Steam or Origin.
While struggling with these many problems, users started venting their thoughts via Steam's customer review section on the game's listing.
The results are a huge amount of "Not Recommended" ratings, coupled with many hilarious or downright angry reviews.
Some of the best include riffs on Ubisoft's Uplay, which is more like "UDontPlay," but also a great one that said, "The first mission is quite a difficult one where you have to repeatedly try to log in to the Uplay mainframe."
Another user complained about the constant stuttering by saying that "Watch_Loading_Screens. 10/10 Game of the Year Edition Stuttering Technology!"
Lots of crashes were also mentioned by users, like eight crashes in one hour. Many PC gamers with AMD CPUs or graphics cards mentioned the poor behavior of the game on their computers, blaming both Nvidia, for its Gameworks implementation, and Ubisoft, for agreeing to cater only to Nvidia users.
There were, however, a few positive reviews as well like, "Stole $220 from a guy who was diagnosed with cancer. 10/10." Another one called the game "Grand Theft iPhone."
Another user described the game as "It's like playing GTA as Batman except your family hasn't been shot yet," while another mentioned that it's the "NSA Simulator 2014."
Inevitably, the lack of dogs in the game also caused some criticism like "No dogs in this game... 9/10" or "Lack of dogs to watch. 0/10."
If you managed to play Watch Dogs, share your thoughts in a comment below.