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Assassin's Creed Shadows hits 2 million players, putting it on track to be the series' most successful game yet (www.pcgamer.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To clarify, sales figures don't exist anymore because you have to count the people who take a $20 sub to ubisoft to play this instead of buying it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

I realize that, but I find it a worthless stat because the numbers are more easily massaged, which is of course partly the point. A different measurement, which paints a less flattering picture, is concurrent players on Steam. I realize that the game will pull players from other places, but comparing it to other games in the same situation doesn't render favorable results; something which Ubisoft would prefer you didn't know, as is evident by their asking Valve to obfuscate these statistics in the past.