That is just Xbox, dragging anyone down.
Their downs, are based on downs.
It's like dropping through a rotten wood floor, yet somehow manage to fall even deeper after getting back on your feet...
The information on SteamDB is provided on valves/steams own page too.
If they wanted to hide those numbers, they could simply do that, and close down the API for it.
https://store.steampowered.com/charts/mostplayed
If you burn 70+ Billions on Accquisitions, the Shareholders will expect Results.
Being the laughing stock of the Gaming World and also last place is not cutting it anymore.
Most of their Subscribers are Xbox Players, though.
If Xbox dies, Gamepass dies.
Their transition to Firesticks and the Cloud hasn't moved the needle in any meaningful volume, so far.
Gamepass/Xbox has a massive Image Problem.
It is recognized as the low-quality platform, with a cheap subscription service (of poor quality!).
There are more and more games you are missing out on, as a Xbox Customer, and many Publishers don't want those gamepass deals either.
A Big-Player like...
I remember when Mass Effect Triology was THE reference for an epic Sci-Fi RPG!
Dragon Age was a close second!
Now... I can't even watch their Trailers anymore, without cringing...
This is what happens, if you turn yourself into a bargain pit for chronically online individuals, which want to pay next to nothing for your service, yet also are entitled like no tomorrow!
Xbox would not be the first Big Investment to shutdown, by Microsoft.
They have Shutdown Mixer.
They have Shutdown Nokia.
They have Shutdown Windows Phone.
They have Shutdown Zune.
Surely more, i don't think of right now...
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