In a surprising twist, Watch Dogs sold 4 million units across 5 systems: The 360, PS3, PS4, XBone and PC. Mario Kart was able to get on by with 1 million units on the Wii U alone. Not bad. But is the sales worth it.
There are people who question the game's quality. Who think Ubisoft should have done better. Who think there are too many bugs in Watch Dogs.
And then....there is Glenn Beck.
That's right folks. Last week, Glenn Beck went and attacked this game straight out because of its Hollywood-like ability to hack into anything and even going as far as to criticize the protagonist of the game.
Popular American conservative TV and radio host Glenn Beck has spoken out to criticize Ubisoft's recently released open-world Watch Dogs, the fastest selling game in Ubisoft's history. During a recent episode of his show, The Blaze (via Polygon), Beck first called out the game's protagonist Aiden Pearce for being an anti-hero and not a traditional hero like Superman.
"Why
must everyone be an anti-hero? Why must everyone break the law? Why
can't we have a Superman? Why can't we have somebody who is doing the
right thing, does the hard thing? Instead, everybody is an anti-hero,"
Beck said.
Because if everybody is not like Superman, then they are like Wolverine and Deadpool. Chimichangas, bub.
And as I stated, Glenn Beck went after Watch Dogs for the hacking.
Beck also took issue with the way in which, he believes, Watch Dogs promotes hacking.
"The
idea here is they are teaching you to hack and then become the ultimate
voyeur in other people's lives--including their bedrooms--by hacking
into their phones and everything," Beck said. "This game is teaching
people to hack into whatever is docked in your bedroom. What the heck is
wrong with us? What are we thinking? We are inviting this into our home
and our lives. We are teaching our kids [hacking] for entertainment
purposes."
We have reached out to a Ubisoft representative for a response to Beck's comments.
Cuz nothing says teaching them in a negative way than to teach a gamer how to hack Hollywood Style. Just be glad Alex Jones of all people didn't go after this game.
Meanwhile, CD Project Red has confirmed that they will be taking GoG down a darker path: A Client like Steam. That's right, folks. GoG has now joined the dark side like Steam, Origin, and uPlay. I mean, who knows what kind of evil they're going to throw at us that will glue us to the PSN and XBLA.
Today we are excited to announce GOG Galaxy,
a truly gamer-friendly, 100% DRM-free online gaming platform that will
finally provide the GOG.com community with the easy option to play
together online. GOG Galaxy will allow you to share your achievements,
stay in touch with your pals and get the updates for your games
automatically. We've developed this technology to improve your GOG.com
experience. We think GOG Galaxy really deserves your attention and we
hope many of you will give it a try!
But, here's the great thing: it is
totally optional, so it's all up to you! If you do not want to play
online, or use our optional client to access these features, then no
worries, you will always be able to play the single-player mode 100%
DRM-free, and download manually the latest updated version of your
favorite title from our website.
Now, for one more feature we call cross-play.
We always believed in an open world for gamers, with no obligation to
be tied to a specific platform or client; and this is why GOG Galaxy
will allow gamers to play with their buddies who use Steam, without any
need to use any 3rd party client or account, nothing, nada. We’re taking
care of connecting GOG.com and Steam players, so just sit back, relax
and give it a try.
Oh my goodness. That is revolutionary.
I WANT IT! I WANT IT! I WANT IT! I WANT IT! I WANT IT!
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