Yet, the dev’s continued level of support wasn’t enough to prevent the game’s rapid decline. A quick response from Ubisoft at the time was enough to stop the blackout from having an impact on the player counts on that day. For Honor’s launch weekend peaked with 45k concurrent players, but the beta was much more successful with a peak of 71k players ranking the game as high as #3 on Steam.įor Honor’s Average Player Count per Hour via GitHypįans fed up with Ubisoft’s lack of support organized a boycott on April 3rd with the goal of receiving more communication from the developers. One of the early signs that For Honor might be in trouble was when the game’s official launch debuted with 36% less players than the beta.
That interest, however, quickly faded as gamers got a taste of what the game had to offer and viewer counts dropped by 62% after the first week. Ubisoft’s multiplayer brawler seemed promising when the beta debuted at #1 on Twitch with a peak of 146k viewers. Like many gamers, we were excited to get our hands on For Honor’s unique melee combat. And while For Honor’s playerbase started significantly smaller than The Division’s 113k peak, it followed the same trends which lead to us predicting yet another overhyped Ubisoft game’s downfall back in March.
Various issues lead to over half of the game’s population leaving within its first two weeks on Steam – a number which aligned with Ubisoft’s own in-game player counts for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Now, 3 months after Ubisoft’s biggest launch of 2017, For Honor has surpassed one of 2016’s biggest bombs by losing 95% of its playerbase on Steam.Īs we originally reported, For Honor had a rough launch. One year ago when GitHyp launched, we featured an article covering how Ubisoft’s best-selling game ever, The Division, lost 93% of its playerbase in the span of its first 3 months.
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