Ubisoft Is Giving Everyone 'Watch Dogs 2' After a Giveaway Glitch

Ubisoft announced on Monday that it will give away Watch Dogs 2 for free after a giveaway glitch made it harder for fans to get copies than they initially intended. Uproxx reports: Sunday's Ubisoft Forward event was a chance for the video game company to show off what's in the pipeline this fall, highlighted by a first (official) look at Far Cry 6. The event also gave us a look at Watch Dogs Legion and its combat system, featuring gameplay where any NPC is playable. To celebrate the new release, Ubisoft had teased free copies of Watch Dogs 2 if fans tuned into the event and logged into their Ubisoft accounts to claim the game. But according to a number of fans online, they struggled to get logged in and had password troubles.

On Monday, Ubisoft's support account updated fans to say the game will be available for fans -- whether they tuned in or not -- until July 15. They included a link to register and log in to snag the code, and hopefully not encounter any problems along the way. It's a nice gesture from a company hoping fans are ready for a lot more Watch Dogs this fall, and getting back into the ecosystem for free is as good a way as any to start.

No thanks

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't deal with unethical, customer-hating, DRM-promoting companies like Ubisoft.

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[Bearhouse]

Shame you posted AC otherwise you'd be +5 by now. Ubisoft is indeed a poor games company regarding how it treats it's customers
    But then again, so are most of them...

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[Bearhouse]

Damn auto-correct. "Its", of course, before the grammar Nazis jump on me...

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[MiliusXP]

And misconduct from some top executive https://www.google.com/search?... [google.com]

Has Ubisoft...

[Jerry Rivers]

...fixed that gawd-awful joke of a Uplay app yet?

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[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah getting every game they ever made for free wouldn't be enough to get me to touch uplay.

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[burningcpu]

I just logged in to get the free game and...they most certainly have not fixed the app, haha. It's a total pile of fuck!

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[Kitkoan]

Wow, it really is still a mess. Its been a while since ive logged into my account, and I see that Ubisoft took the liberty to delete almost my entire game library since ive been gone so long (got a few games from Humble Bundles in the past...)

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[LordWabbit2]

So was Steam back in the day, I used to fucking hate Steam. Took them a LONG time to sort their shit out.

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[burningcpu]

K, well we're talking about Uplay in 2020. What does Steam being shit sometime in the past have to do with this discussion?

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[Opportunist]

Uwish.

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[SuperDre]

What's wrong with it?

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[thegarbz]

If you have to ask then you haven't used it. ... Or used it exclusively and don't know any better. It's almost as good as the EPIC games store.

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[SuperDre]

Well, I've used it, but also using the Steam client, and I think the Steam client is also crap.. And the EGS client is very slow IMHO, but I'd only use that one in conjunction with the UnrealEngine development or grabbing the free games. Even the gog galaxy client has its pro's and con's.

Direct link

[roskakori]

If you don't want to click the shorted link from TFA which probably includes some privacy invading nasties, here's the direct link to Ubisoft: https://register.ubisoft.com/ubisoft-forward-reward/en-GB [ubisoft.com].

Never played

[cusco]

I've never played the game, and clicked through to see if it was worth downloading. Doesn't sound like it's worth the trouble, thanks.

Still nope

[Opportunist]

If I could get the game without having to join your cult, I might .... then again, why waste valuable bandwidth on a crap game.

No thanks

[liefer]

I'll skip this sjw wet dream antifa-simulator, even if it's free

not yet..

[SuperDre]

Well, I've tried the link yesterday, but up till this morning still no watch dogs 2 in my library.. :'(

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[burningcpu]

Same. It's impressive that they can screw up giving away a free game, lol.