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Ryuu96 on 27 September 2024
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Chazore said:
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.

It has annoyed me recently, Steam CCU used to be a little fun, like a "oh look at how much CCU it hit, that's awesome, okay moving on" but now it's being weaponised a lot, I see "Oh Palworld is dead because it decreased by --%" and likewise for Helldivers 2...Because of course the games are not going to maintain a near 1m CCU FFS. The % drop will be huge if they hit a massive height, Lol.

Developers would kill for the numbers that Palworld and Helldivers 2 are still getting, and this is just Steam CCU, it doesn't take into account Xbox/PlayStation player-bases either, I mean, sometimes you can use Steam CCU to make a fair assessment that a game is dead, like with Concord, but also some games do better on PC than Console and some games do better on Console than PC.

And yup it's even more dumb to use Steam CCU for SP titles and use it as an judgement as to whether a game is a failure or not. As for Frostpunk 2, I doubt it will be that high but it's also on PC Game Pass. God help the industry if these investors start obsessing over Steam CCU FFS. Reminds me of the stupid days of giving bonuses for hitting a certain Meta score, instead of the actual overall performance of the videogame, Lol.

Just became a weaponised thing lately, too many low-evidence claims made because of it and too much gloating.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 27 September 2024