For Honor has a large player base. Reports of dwindling player numbers are said to be fake news – according to Ubisoft.
At the end of May, we reported that interest in For Honor had declined. Shortly before, new content went live with the second faction war season, but hardly anyone seemed to care about it. Player numbers on Steam continued to drop, and Google interest remained unimpressed by the season launch. Many other gaming sites noticed this as well and wrote about the continuous downward trend in For Honor.
Now, nearly two months later, the daily player count on Steam has halved again. The player base now stands at a weary 1500 players. In comparison: The Division has over 5000 – and this, despite the last major content update being in February.
Although numbers are usually not up for debate, the developers do not want to hear anything about player decline. On the contrary: Recently, Ubisoft’s community developer Eric Pope referred to reports of too few players as “fake news” during a livestream.
We have many people in For Honor, fake news people!
In the stream, Pope talked about a new patch that was supposed to be released later that day. It would take a few hours before it would be available to all players, according to the developer.
He added:
We have many players in For Honor. Believe it or not, fake news people, we have many players in For Honor for whom we are [the update] releasing.
Here we embed the segment for you:
Unfortunately, it isn’t possible to see the exact player numbers on PS4, Xbox One, and Uplay. On Xbox, you can only see that For Honor lags far behind games like Ghost Recon Wildlands or Star Wars Battlefront in the “Most Played Games” rankings. However, even on these platforms, a similar picture is likely to emerge as with the Steam player base.
Eric Pope apparently sees it differently and distances himself from the negative press reports.
Are you still playing For Honor?
Here you can find the “fake news”:
