Like many games as of late Watch Dogs has already been hacked and its ISO made available for download before its release date, but in a neat and thematic little twist, downloading it will hack you too. You might want to wait for retail, pirates.
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According to reports from people who have illegally downloaded Watch Dogs from torrent sites the current version that's going around has some pretty serious malware installed. Whoever created this ISO has also stuck a Bitcoin miner into it, which will use the processing power of the unsupecting fool's computers and earn the original hacker money by it. The pirated copy is also apparently plagued with bugs and can increase CPU consumption by 25% or more thanks to the miner.
So you know what? Don't be an idiot. If you want a game, buy it. If you think it's too much money than just wait a few years for the price to drop to something more manageable for you. The gaming community is way too entitled these days and it's only their fault when they get hacked over some stupity like this.
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As for Watch Dogs itself, there have been a few reports of game-killing bugs striking. "Got discovered and killed while tailing someone, respawned in free roam, all my weapons were gone, outfit was default, and all my skills (crafting and such that I had unlocked to date) were still unlocked in the skill tree, but I could not use them," complained one user on the Ubisoft forums. A bug that wipes your save is never good news, although many of these complaints have been attributed to people using hacked and leaked copies that haven't been given the day-one patch that's supposed to fix a number of problems with the game. There are still known issues that remain, however.
Ubisoft is aware of those and working on them, although in our playtime with the game we haven't run across any issues. Watch Dogs hits tomorrow- you can expect a full review of the game on GameNGuide.com later on tonight.