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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)

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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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[-] Donebrach@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Star Wars Outlaws was a lot of fun. Nothing ground breaking but, it was a decent game.

[-] DNU@lemmy.world -1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I'm astonished by the hate UBI is getting for their games. Sure, the company has problems, but there are so many bad actors, if I stop buying games from Microsoft(Bethesda, Blizzard), Tencent(Epic, Riot, Grinding gear games and and and) there literally won't be any AAA games left. Next to the games not being as bad as claimed. Have yet to play outlaws but it looks fun, and I've had quite a good time with ac Mirage. Some annoying bugs but otherwise a well made game with an interesting story. Yet when I post a screenshot of the game on steam, I get asked by ppl who don't even own the game why I'm playing trash like that. Excuse me? Reviews are good, games runs really well with few bugs, why shouldn't I?

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[+] Outtatime@sh.itjust.works -28 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Stop the DEI bullshit and start hiring real talent. Sack the CEOs and bosses and strip them of their bonuses.

Or, maybe people are waking up and not buying the bullshit any longer. If the latter is true, the problem fixes itself eventually.

[-] Rakonat@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

I'm far from the average consumer but I think the last Ubisoft game I bought was Farcry 5... before that I think it was Farcry 3. And before that Was AssCreed Ezio saga. Everytime I gave them a chance the game was passable but had some serious flaws that they doubled down on as far as I could tell in press releases for other games.

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[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.world -2 points 19 hours ago

This is a consequence of intellectual property laws. What in 60s and 70s was possible to do with recent enough culturally significant things, now has been indefinitely postponed.

But more than that, a consequence of human vanity.

Making nuclear weapons by 50 years old technologies is good enough for those who need nukes.

But personal computers and operating systems of year 1999 kind, which are realistic to do in many places on the globe, are not good enough even for people who may not be able to afford healthy food.

Matrix the movie really was onto something.

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