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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 18 hours 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 14 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Modern journalism:

Dragon Age Veilguard: return to form, massive success.

SW Outlaws: Trash only sold 2M, Ubisoft in panic.

Ever since Ubi fended off the hostile takeover, the media has conspicuously focused on portraying Ubi in a far worse position than it is. Maybe it's because they are a prime target for absorption from a certain company that has been gobbling up everything lately. It just so happens to advertise in almost every outlet nowadays. This smells of a Nokia like job.

[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours ago

To be fair, if your first month estimate is 5 mil and you don't even sell 2 mil in 3 months that could easily be a panic. And for comparison, fallen order had sold over 8 mil units in about the same time period.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Ubisoft still hasn't done anything about the plausible sex assaut ring allegations from upper management's preying on admin.

I'm too offended to play the Ubisoft games I own, let alone buy new ones. And they dove into the microtransactions void even after promising not to.

Ubi is already festering with parasites. It just now needs to die off so all the larvae can go off and pupa up before finding other companies to victimize.

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org -4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 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 -2 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

For those of us out of the loop, what company are you talking about?

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 2 points 9 hours ago

Microsoft