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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 15 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[+] [email protected] -14 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

"Oh no, queer people are in my bideo games" this is what the 'DEI bad' argument looks like to anyone with a modicum of common sense.

Sincerely, DEI right now is just the newest made up enemy of chuds. Most of the time devs have to fight against higher ups to include any diversity apart from what gamers have considered "cis white male" adjacent.

Women as a main character? DEI

Pronouns? DEI

White male protagonist isn't manly enough? DEI

Those are all based on real examples btw

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Do people like you even know anymore what dei actually means

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

I really enjoyed the division, with some friends it was a fun playthrough. The last farcry we did not even finish.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 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.