Watched Status from ListItem or File Table PlayCount

I am working on an addon for Emby that populates a directory with ListItems, this works fine however I have one problem.

If the user selects mark watched from the context menu of an item or they hit the mark watched hot key ‘w’ an entry in the files table will be created for the item and from that point forward Kodi ignores what I set in the ListItem playcount info label and will only show the watched status that it knows about internally from the file table “PlayCount” field.

Is there a way to stop Kodi using the File table PlayCount field for dynamically created ListItems?