Fandom Pulse is reporting (paywall), according to a “Ubisoft insider”, that the beleaguered video game company is pushing back on Steam to try and get certain data points removed from public view. This would include data points like peak and concurrent users. The insider continues by saying that Star Wars Outlaws has still failed to surpass the 2 million units sold point having been released for almost 3 months. That’s a far cry (get it?) from the 5 million in the first month some investors were hoping for at launch.
The report also alleges that Ubisoft isn’t alone. Other companies would also like Valve to stop reporting numbers that they’d rather paint their own way on investor calls, or just dodge entirely like Ubisoft has done on recent calls where the lackluster performance of Star Wars Outlaws has come up.
Stop the DEI bullshit and start hiring real talent. Sack the CEOs and bosses and strip them of their bonuses.
Or, maybe people are waking up and not buying the bullshit any longer. If the latter is true, the problem fixes itself eventually.
“Oh no, queer people are in my bideo games” this is what the ‘DEI bad’ argument looks like to anyone with a modicum of common sense.
Sincerely, DEI right now is just the newest made up enemy of chuds. Most of the time devs have to fight against higher ups to include any diversity apart from what gamers have considered “cis white male” adjacent.
Women as a main character? DEI
Pronouns? DEI
White male protagonist isn’t manly enough? DEI
Those are all based on real examples btw
My only problem is that so many characters of all types have become these unlikable shells of blandness. People wanna blame DEI or “woke” or whatever else the word of the week is, but that’s not it. Look at the cast of Concord compared to something like Deadlock. Both are diverse enough, but only one has substance.
Shoutout to our nonbinary nuclear bomb Pocket.
Yeah, it’s always DEI getting blamed and not just that designs are bland compared to the rest of the market
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You wrote a comment in a public forum, and I formulated a factual response as to why it’s wrong. What did you expect? For everyone to suck your dick? C’mon, give me an actual response based on facts and logic as to why you’re right. Or are you only capable of declaring everyone else as sheeple without even knowing why they are?
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Damn, sorry for not getting the memo I guess.
And here I thought you were at least capable of formulating a proper argument, guess I was expecting too much from someone who lets feelings rule over their decision making.
Do people like you even know anymore what dei actually means
I’m far from the average consumer but I think the last Ubisoft game I bought was Farcry 5… before that I think it was Farcry 3. And before that Was AssCreed Ezio saga. Everytime I gave them a chance the game was passable but had some serious flaws that they doubled down on as far as I could tell in press releases for other games.
I really enjoyed the division, with some friends it was a fun playthrough. The last farcry we did not even finish.
This is a consequence of intellectual property laws. What in 60s and 70s was possible to do with recent enough culturally significant things, now has been indefinitely postponed.
But more than that, a consequence of human vanity.
Making nuclear weapons by 50 years old technologies is good enough for those who need nukes.
But personal computers and operating systems of year 1999 kind, which are realistic to do in many places on the globe, are not good enough even for people who may not be able to afford healthy food.
Matrix the movie really was onto something.