http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/02/27/watch-dogs-is-targeting-pc-as-lead-platform/

Any thoughts? Hopefully this means there will be more stable games for everyone because the PS4 and new Xbox will use similar architecture to the PC.

*does a dance*

Sounds good to me.

I am not buying Ubisoft's PR speak they may say Watch Dogs is being developed for PC first then ported to the consoles but it will still have Ubisoft's crappy Digital Rights Management (DRM) called Uplay. If Ubisoft gets rid of Uplay permanently then I will buy Watch Dogs I am sick and tired of buying PC video games on Steam that have both Steam and Uplay there is no need to have 2 Digital Rights Management (DRM) copy protection software on a Digital Rights Management (DRM) software and I am sick and tired of buying the physical boxed PC video games from brick and mortar retailer stores that have Digital Rights Management (DRM) on them such as Steam, Steam Works and Uplay.

I hope this game lives up to the hype. I was so excited when I saw the "gameplay" video during E3. I'm also glad it's coming to PC.

Far Cry 3 was pretty fun, then got worse and worse. Other than that I tend to hate Ubisoft's games. So I have no idea if I should be happy or not. Uplay is a minor inconvenient hassle. It looks good, but I'll need to see more.

Question. You are glad Watch Dogs is coming to PC. But are you glad Watch Dogs will be using Ubisoft's Uplay? Ubisoft's Uplay pisses me off and I want to buy Watch Dogs for PC badly but I can't stand Digital Rights Management (DRM) at all :/ so this is another Ubisoft published video game I will not be buying :/.

What's so bad about Uplay? I've never bought a Ubisoft game for PC but Watch Dogs might be my first PC Ubisoft game.

Uplay is bad because it is a Digital Rights Management (DRM) copy protection software that's why it's bad. Sure Ubisoft ditched the always online internet connection for it but you still need internet connection for a 1 time internet activation I have Comcast and sometimes Comcast does not know what they are doing and shut off my internet anywhere from a few minutes, to a few hours, to a few days, to 1 to 2 weeks sometimes. When you have no internet at all it is just bad sometimes.

I do not like putting up with 1 time internet activations or always online internet connections.

Since I never pick up games on launch day UPlay's one time online activation usually isn't an issue for me. Any problems with overloaded servers in the first days will be over by the time I've ordered and received my copy. I would assume that pretty much all gamers these days have some means of accessing the internet for 5 minutes. And Watch Dogs might have a pretty big online component.

I don't like UPlay, but aside from the initial activation it's not that annoying these days as far as I know, especially when compared to something like GFWL which still delivers horror stories to this day.

Everything I've seen from this game looks scripted. I'm completely underwhelmed.

I completely agree with you povuholo the thing is though forcing Uplay on you is stupid like I said I have Comcast and Comcast has no idea what they do sometimes and shut off my internet anywhere from a few minutes to 1 to 2 weeks at a time and I pay $140 a month for Comcast it depresses me.

This is the only game that was shown at the PS4 release conference that actually had me excited (I've never played a Killzone game so I'm not sure what to make of it yet).

You like your games heavily scripted?

Huh?

I don't know anything about Uplay so I have no opinion on it. I've not bought a Ubisoft game in probably 10 years. I was however looking forward to this game because it seemed cool. I have not actually been following it.

i hope Ubisoft are being honest here, i am really looking forward to this game, based off the 2 videos ive seen, i hope it's more open world like GTA personally

Says the guy [censored] his pants over Deep Down, a game which's only demo so far hasn't been conclusively proved to not be all cutscene.

Anyways, it will be interesting how "open-world" this really is.

Uplay, Steam, Origin, Impulse, all those are in the same pile of things I don't really care about.

I don't like Ubisoft.. They will need to do a lot to encourage me to get this game..

Killzone is a bad series.. Or atleast Killzone 3 was a bore..

I just hope Ubisoft doesn't rip too much from their cash cow, Assassin's Creed.

So your problem is that if you buy it from Steam, it still requires you to activate it on Uplay, meaning you're doubling up on DRM? Then why don't you just buy it from Uplay directly?

Yup, Uplay is actually pretty decent nowadays, it has an offline that actually works, achievements that actually do something, and best of all it doesn't force you to update your game before you can play it (it'll start patching, but if you hit cancel it'll just let you play anyway). Some games do still require you to be online for certain things even in singleplayer, like Anno 2070 and its Ark thing (gives various ingame bonuses, apparently it's pretty important), but the vast majority don't.

Anyway, I'll believe this when I see it. They're not exactly the first publisher to make claims like this that have later turned out false, and while they've been moving in the right direction with Farcry 3 and AC3, I'm still skeptical.

I refuse to buy it from Steam and Uplay I am against Digital Rights Management (DRM) I like to buy my PC video games in physical boxes from brick and mortar retailer stores to have a collection on my shelf I like to own real physical items not fake virtual items that don't exist in real life but exist on a virtual software which exists on the PC.

The physical boxed PC video games I buy from brick and mortar retailer stores also have to be Digital Rights Management (DRM) free.

Looks like Ubisoft is off my "do not buy for PC" list now since their service has an offline mode.

LOL Uplay lets you go offline to play the video games you buy from them but you still need internet connection for a 1 time internet activation it is ridiculous to have even a 1 time internet activation for a singleplayer video game there are still many people all over the world with crappy poor internet connections or no internet at all and people like that have to suffer for it.

Just about every publisher uses some sort of online activation now, the time to complain was when Bioshock came out and paved the way for it, it's a bit too late now unless you want to boycott every major release. And as a matter of fact, Ubisoft actually released Rayman Origins on PC without any sort of DRM whatsoever.

Anyway, this isn't really the place to complain about copy protection methods that have been common practice for about 7 years, we're here to discuss Watchdogs.

I know this is the place to discuss Watch Dogs and I am discussing my concerns with it. http://www.gog.com/ sells Digital Rights Management (DRM) free video games on their website http://www.gog.com/ is a type of Digital Rights Management (DRM) but 100x more better than CD Keys, Steam, or Uplay they let you copy the video games you buy on as many CD's, DVD's, flash drives, hard drives and PC's as you want Steam doesn't really let you do most of that other than installing Steam on as many PC's as you want and backing up your files on your hard drive on any PC you want that's about it. All the video games being funded on Kickstarter are also all Digital Rights Management (DRM) free and they also sell them digitally but they will also sell physical boxed PC video games at brick and mortar retailer stores. Star Citizen by Chris Roberts Space Industry and Project Eternity by Obsidian Entertainment are doing this no (DRM) and yes they will be selling physical boxed versions of their video games at brick and mortar retailer stores.

I just wish Ubisoft followed this path with Watch Dogs this year marks the first year I am boycotting Steam last year Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was the last video game I bought off of Steam and 2009-2010 I boycotted Activision, Electronic Arts (EA), Square Enix and Ubisoft and in 2011 i boycotted Bethesda Softworks.