Watch Dogs promotion goes horribly wrong. Bomb squad called

[Son_of_Shinobi]

https://uk.games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugge ... 05753.html

Some people clearly don't have brains

[RetroBob]

Horribly wrong my arse - this is a tonne of free PR. They were supposedly calling to let people know to expect something but for 'some reason' the message didn't get through.

[Darran@Retro Gamer]

yeah, it sounds like that was the plan all along.

[gunbladelad]

I pipped you to the post on this one...

http://www.retrogamer.net/forum/viewtop ... 13#p965570

[outdated_gamer]

Looks like the game is the fastest selling game in Ubi's history:

http://www.gamearena.com.au/watch-dogs- ... y-history/


Gotta hand it to them for knowing how advertising and hype works like.

[Son_of_Shinobi]

Horribly wrong my arse - this is a tonne of free PR.

Of course it worked on the PR front - but am sure the people that had to be evacuated don't see it that way. Regardless of all the columns inches it created, it was still a very dubious and immature thing to do.

Funny they didn't have the bottle to send the package to an airport