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

There are some surprisingly good indie games out there by companies who are more into making games fun than manipulating their end-users to spend more money.

I'm not saying you are under any moral obligation to change over. (You're not.) Just that there are alternatives, and maybe even spiritual successors without the DRM and without the revenue enhancements, if ever they push you over the brink.