Watch Dogs heavily pirated before launch, tops torrent sites

[ViperGTI]

I'm surprised at all the XBox and PS3 downloads. I didn't even know you can download pirated console games. Everyone is usually just hammering on the PC for pirating and enforcing DRM on there.

 

[Wyzak]

It needs U(don't)Play to run

It doesn't. It needs to activate on Uplay once, thereafter it's Steam only.

 

[Ike_009]

I have 2 friends who are avid piraters. Seriously they love downloading illegally. They even play pirated mp games via a fake mp server client.You must check the hassles they have getting crap up and running some times. Idiots. I got 2 games from them before that I was dying to check out and it was a fraykin kak experience. The one game clearly needed some official patching(oh ya, The Witcher 2) as it was a buggy as all hell mess.

^This

I had a friend who pirated plenty of games and would then bitch about poor gameplay, lame story, rip off game at R400 etc. If you aren't gonna support the industry you shouldn't complain yet these people do which annoys me.

 

[hideinlight]

These days I use pirated games to save on cap, just copy the game file over to right directly for Steam and verify file integrity. That's about how much hassle I can put up with. It's also a mental thing, how does one play a pirated game when one you bought is sitting there right on the shelf.

I also just played through Dark Souls 2, can't imagine it without the online.
There's also the issue of day one pricing which is normally too expensive for most, and people who can't wait and must play the game at the peak of the hype.

One thing people fail to mention about the torrents is that after a while they simply die out.

 

[Wyzak]

These days I use pirated games to save on cap, just copy the game file over to right directly for Steam and verify file integrity. That's about how much hassle I can put up with. It's also a mental thing, how does one play a pirated game when one you bought is sitting there right on the shelf.

I also just played through Dark Souls 2, can't imagine it without the online.

How do you get the pirated copy in the first place then? If you download it it defeats your argument of doing it to save on your cap.

 

[hideinlight]

How do you get the pirated copy in the first place then? If you download it it defeats your argument of doing it to save on your cap.

One thing that spreads like wildfire are movies and series, and the way they are spread are via portable hardrives which almost always contains a new game or two. So I just copy the ones over I might be interested in playing in the future. I only tend to play games these days 6 months after released and when on sale like Tomb Raider.

That way I know I'm playing a fully patched game that had some time to "mature".

Or I buy the game from Steam, find out it has a huge size, then I'm stuck with hunting down the pirated copy since no one I know has Steam or have completely different taste than me.

Currently I have that problem with Batman Origins and Castlevania