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Instead Of Making Better Games, Reports Allege That Ubisoft Wants Steam To Hide Certain Data...Like Player Counts (www.mmobomb.com)

submitted 1 day ago by ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to c/pcgaming@lemmy.world

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Fandom Pulse is reporting (paywall), according to a "Ubisoft insider", that the beleaguered video game company is pushing back on Steam to try and get certain data points removed from public view. This would include data points like peak and concurrent users. The insider continues by saying that Star Wars Outlaws has still failed to surpass the 2 million units sold point having been released for almost 3 months. That's a far cry (get it?) from the 5 million in the first month some investors were hoping for at launch.

The report also alleges that Ubisoft isn't alone. Other companies would also like Valve to stop reporting numbers that they'd rather paint their own way on investor calls, or just dodge entirely like Ubisoft has done on recent calls where the lackluster performance of Star Wars Outlaws has come up.

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[+] Viri4thus@feddit.org -7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder if Activision, Rockstar, etc also offend you. Maybe between the kids soccer practice?

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Activision, for its own reasons.

I take from your disdain you don't mind at all the poisoned rats ground into the Ubisoft sausage?

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org -5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I have better things to worry about than if there's some dude bros working at Ubisoft. Especially after the layoff rounds that hit the industry, where even in its shitty state, Ubisoft was one of the least offenders in relative terms (god bless EU employment laws). I know, I'm boring with my concern for relevant things like unemployment of my peers rather than riding the social media zeitgeist hate fest that usually starts and ends on Twitter with no real repercussions in the real world.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm sure you do.

Paying for Ubisoft games, as the post-success layoffs show doesn't actually support those developers, but it does support the dudebros pushing the layoffs, also the ones preying on the women employees, and some private equity guys thrown in.

Pirate if you are that desperate to get your AC fix. I liked Far Cry sometimes. But then there are better games out there that are not Ubisoft, or for that matter, any of the AAA publishers.

I'm not sure how your purported concerns serve to defend patronizing Ubi or even pirating them.

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org -1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

History books will laud your courageous activism!

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Deflected like a true junkie. The AAA industry must really have you by the short and curlies. I'm so sorry.

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 1 points 5 hours ago

Yes, I'm huffing some Ezio as we speak.