For Honor Rep Calls Reports of Low Player Count “Fake News”

For Honor was Ubisoft's big new IP for 2017 that made headlines for all the wrong reasons. First, there was just how much money you had to spend on microtransactions in order to reach Max Gear level, and then came the wave of player count stories suggesting that For Honor players were flocking away from the title. According to Ubisoft, though, that's "fake news."

Yes, the biggest buzzword of the last year has made its way into gaming yet again, during For Honor's weekly Warrior's Den livestream. While talking about delivering 3-Day Champion Status to players as compensation for a server outage, Community Developer Eric Pope said "That is rolling out now, over the course of the day - it takes a few hours to get to everybody. We have a lot of players in For Honor - believe it or not, fake news people, we have a lot of players in For Honor- to roll it out to." You can watch the clip here: Twitch

This is likely in response to the slew of articles covering a report by the player-count tracking website GitHyp, which also tracks streaming statistics as well, that showed how For Honor has lost 95% of its playerbase on Steam. This report also outlined how the game had lost 62% of its viewers after just one week.

It was not a pretty picture for For Honor, nor was it a promising sign for Ubisoft's first IP, which was an incredibly fun and in-depth experience unfortunately bogged down by pay-to-win microtransactions.