Rumour: Ubisoft asks Valve to withhold information about the attendance of its games on Steam

A collage of Ubisoft games. Source: Ubisoft

A surprising rumour has emerged about Ubisoft.

Instead of analysing its own mistakes and not to repeat them, the French developer allegedly tries to hide public information about its failures.

Here's What We Know

The Fandom Pulse publication shared information allegedly obtained from one of Ubisoft's employees. He claims that the company is pressurising Valve to remove or hide data about the number of concurrent players in its games on Steam.

It is claimed that Ubisoft executives are unhappy that gamers, journalists and (most importantly) investors can find out in a few clicks how popular the company's games are on Steam.

The employee also stated that several other companies have approached Valve with a similar demand.

In general, Ubisoft's logic is understandable - it's easier to hide data and manipulate figures than to release quality games, but the unnamed insider's information looks somewhat dubious for two reasons at once:

There are official financial reports in which the company is obliged to provide accurate information.

The data on the number of players is provided by SteamDB service, which is in no way related to Valve, and it's strange to demand from the company what it can't influence in any way. The only thing it can do is to remove user ratings from the pages of Ubisoft games in Steam, but it won't do that.

Unfortunately, Ubisoft's recent games - Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Skull Bones, and Star Wars Outlaws - have indeed shown extremely low popularity on Steam, but that's definitely not Steam's fault.

Source: Fandom Puls