Ubisoft: Tencent, Guillemot Family Weighing Buyout

[Chazore]

Ryuu96 said:

Not Ubisoft related but I wanted to rant a little about this too, how fucking ridiculous are shareholders being here, this industry is an absolute joke at the minute. If investors are going to start pissing their pants about something as useless as Steam CCU then I would rather Steam CCU be removed entirely.

So a game can now sell hundreds of thousands of copies, cover the entire costs of making the game, but if it doesn't get a high CONCURRENT player count, the stock gets battered? What a joke, Steam CCU used to just be something fun to look at and now it's being turned into something horrible, I thought only by forum users but now the goddamn investors too 💀

Remember when Elden Ring came out?. People did the same thing for other single-player games, going solely off Steam's CCU listings, rather than the other factors like:

Wishlist numbers

Total players

Highest Peak

But instead it's always just the CCU, and if the CCU for an SP game is in the lower digits, it's apparently "dead game", which makes no fucking sense at all and likely never will, yet investors are drawn to CCU for games like a moth to the flame. 

I don't think they should erase CCU stats, but I do think Investors should just stay the hell away from Steam stats in general. They are meant to be fun stats for us to look at in general, you know, nerdy stats (or "stats for nerds" as Google calls theirs). Investors are already mucking bigger games up enough as is, and we don't need them gawking at CCU stats.

Last edited by Chazore - on 27 September 2024