Rumor: Ubisoft Wants Valve To Disable Steam Player Count API Fuelling SteamDB

[Darmok N Jalad]

What I would love to see is being able to buy a game on someone else’s platform and not have to create an EA or Ubisoft account just to play it. I was super annoyed when I bought my daughter a Just Dance game on Switch and had to create a Ubi account. That’s some next level BS for a single player game. I’m sure they just want to sell more copies and call it “crossplay.”

 

[trsttte]

maybe they could make a good game to get higher numbers...

 

[Chomiq]

Ubisoft wants to be Netflix, only release numbers when it suits them.

 

[TechLurker]

Steam should respond by making public the number of preorders made, plus the number of refunds within the first 30 days of release.

The worst Ubisoft can do is run to Epic Games, where they'll be guaranteed even fewer sales relative to Steam, but at least there aren't readily accessible public charts of average players in a game played via Epic, AFAIK.

 

[AsRock]

Nope, that's why they resort to these shenanigans.

They're lost.

Maybe, just maybe they are trying to lower there value so some one like MS will buy them out.

Another on my shit list would be Epic and more to do with the BS they are pushing with UE license.

Then again there are only a few i like these days, it's not just UBI.

 

[Vayra86]

What I would love to see is being able to buy a game on someone else’s platform and not have to create an EA or Ubisoft account just to play it. I was super annoyed when I bought my daughter a Just Dance game on Switch and had to create a Ubi account. That’s some next level BS for a single player game. I’m sure they just want to sell more copies and call it “crossplay.”

I'm a dad too, and I'm going to dive into this cesspool too, but honestly, if this gets pulled, the game is simply going return to sender and I'll explain this to my daughter as well: commerce is always trying to pull you in deeper, and in this house, we make sharp choices on that front. And then we'll go to the store and find a new game to enjoy. There's enough, after all. If you get stuck on being annoyed and still caving to the demands, we're not making progress.

Exercising customer power must be taught, especially the data hunger that is included in games/content/internet services now must be curbed. The best way to exercise that power is to educate and start as early as possible. Set the norm. My daughter can always choose to deviate from that later when she's got her own money.

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

Imagine catching strays and denying all allegations that you were involved in it. Get fucked, Ubisoft.

 

[remixedcat]

ubisoft knows their games are hot garbage so they want their stats hidden