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[Gamezone]

Probably after the embarrassing CCU of Star Wars Outlaws I guess?

Ubisoft Reportedly Wants Steam to Hide Concurrent Player Count Data

Ubisoft reportedly wants to limit the way people see player count data on Steam, a platform well-known for its transparent approach to gamers.

gamerant.com

 

[Little Mac]

 

[ValiantInstance]

One of the most delusional companies I've ever seen. Their demise will be studied in business schools when they go into liquidation.

 

[Tomi]

Old news
Close this

 

[NeoGiffer]

 

[tusharngf]

May be they should try making a good game

 

[thief183]

Wasn't this proven to be fake?

 

[alphachino]

 

[BennyBlanco]

Their games aren't popular enough on the platform to be asking for any special treatment. Just fuck off back to UPlay if your games are gonna be this bad.

 

[DaleinCalgary]

UBIsoft is so close to be bought by Microsoft for pennies on the dollar.

Then continue to make crap

 

[TommyCronin6969]

Even if it isn't true I completely believe Ubisoft would try this.

 

[Buhaj]

SteamDB charts are worldwide numbers, right?

 

[OGM_Madness]

Yves Guillemot when he saw the CCU of Outlaws:

 

[Loomy]

UBIsoft is so close to be bought by Microsoft for pennies on the dollar.

That's a legal can of worms Microsoft does not want to open. Part of the deal with the CMA to approve the ABK merger was Ubisoft gets the rights to all ABK games for cloud streaming outside the EU for the next 15 years.

 

[Fake]

Steam could hide Ubisoft games.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

UBIsoft is so close to be bought by Microsoft for pennies on the dollar.

Then continue to make crap

Why would MS or anyone want to have Ubisoft and the countless employers they have? They barely know what to do with Bethesda and Activision let alone another huge ass publisher lol.

 

[RagnarokIV]

older than AC1

 

[Metnut]

It's sad because UBI has a lot of talented people at the lower and mid levels. You can see how good their worlds look and the games are oozing potential. They always disappoint though and I blame the people at the top here making the big picture decisions for the games.

 

[DaleinCalgary]

Why would MS or anyone want to have Ubisoft and the countless employers they have? They barely know what to do with Bethesda and Activision let alone another huge ass publisher lol.

history

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

history

Imagine some CEO from Xbox pitching the idea of buying Ubisoft to MS...reason? "history". Yup..."okay then, take these billions. we still haven't gotten back the 70 billion from activision and bethesda's billions haven't been recovered but hey...take these billions"

 

[DaleinCalgary]

Imagine some CEO from Xbox pitching the idea of buying Ubisoft to MS...reason? "history". Yup..."okay then, take these billions. we still haven't gotten back the 70 billion from activision and bethesda's billions haven't been recovered but hey...take these billions"

That's pretty much how Microsoft has done business the last 20 years

 

[Arsic]

This would be the most anti consumer thing ever when it comes to drivel like skull and bones.

Imagine being naive and thinking "surely lots of people are still playing this" then you pick it up to never find a match.

 

[violence]

We are very lucky valve and steam are at the top of digital distribution.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Canary in the coal mine?

If Ubisoft is doing this, I could see a number of other publishers trying to pressure Valve to hide the data too.

 

[yogaflame]

 

[Lokaum D+]

 

[CyberCali]

Probably after the embarrassing CCU of Star Wars Outlaws I guess?

Ubisoft Reportedly Wants Steam to Hide Concurrent Player Count Data

Ubisoft reportedly wants to limit the way people see player count data on Steam, a platform well-known for its transparent approach to gamers.

gamerant.com

Game Rant is using the same rumor that originally came from this dubious FandomPulse site, which has already been posted here:

Drama - Rumor - Ubisoft Now Pressuring Steam to Remove Player Count Tracking After Historic Star Wars FLOP

https://www.smashjt.com/post/ubisoft-now-pressuring-steam-to-remove-player-count-tracking-after-historic-star-wars-flop A wild new rumored leak from an insider to the FandomPulse exposes Ubisoft’s 'dissatisfaction' with Valve and Steam for displaying concurrent player counts on its platform...

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