The Death of Skull and Bones - The Full Story

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[@Khobotov]

And they had the nerve to call it an AAAA game. The only thing going "AAAA" is the head of finances when he cries himself to sleep.

[@leonardolf6974]

you are geting it wrong, The "A"s don't mean quality. The more "A"s less complete the game is.

[@Khobotov]

Ah, so like batteries. The more "A" you get the less power you get.

[@leonardolf6974]

@@KhobotovYes, also the smaller the package and less fun you have overall

[@R3TR0J4N]

it's an AAAA w/ the amount of wasted money it has comapre to AAA

[@BP-dn9nv]

That was more of just a way for them to save face. I'm willing to bet they knew it'd bomb but they spent so much time and money into it they had to pretend they had actual confidence in the product

[@vorpalinferno9711]

Skull and bones is a type of game that a pirate wont bother pirating.

[@Rockport1911]

This "game" made me pirate AC Blackflag again :)

[@BloodyStarswhite]

It makes me sad that there are people defending ubisoft and this game. It's embarassing. I am never going to purchase another ubisoft ever again in my life.

[@arnareriksson5077]

Amen brother!

[@Delta-533]

It's easy to spot the content creators on the payroll.

[@mierlacosmin1725]

Yeee sure 😂😂😂 until new game come ? 😂😂😂

[@ggmann13]

Hope you didn't preorder it. No one should ever be preordering games.

[@BloodyStarswhite]

@@mierlacosmin1725 I haven't bought a ubisoft game since rainbow six siege and I can promise you even if they create the best game the world has ever seen I will not be paying for it.

[@davianhernandez479]

That crazy how a triple a game can release and die in such a short timeframe in which I didn’t even realize it existed in the first place

[@sgwolverx]

it was marketed as AAAA game...

[@thekillerpill23]

AAAA

[@timothylever1660]

Sorry when did it die? It's still alive with alot of people playing

[@AJayZy]

@@timothylever1660First of all, it’s a bad game that relies on a live service system so if it’s not dead now it will die sooner rather than later. You can disagree however you want, but all I’m curious about it how tf can you defend such clear trash? Secondly, I saw the concurrent stats and it is indeed dying so I’m not sure what you’re on about. Unless you have a stake in Ubisoft Singapore or something this makes zero sense mate

[@timothylever1660]

​@AJayZy the game is far from trash. It's only "trash" because people hyped it up to be AC black flag 2.0 which is never really where it was heading anyways. The community had unrealistic expectations and they should know that. Also the downward trend in players is a common occurrence with multiple games after launch. Many people will play the game and realize it's not their cup of tea and move on.

[@R3TR0J4N]

stamina bar on a ship and their sale pitch of "forget everything you know about pirate fantasy" are text book mobilegame

[@FunnyFreak_]

Stamina for the crew, thats how you know that the other person didnt even play the game

[@evanrutledge-sz4yo]

@@FunnyFreak_Doesn’t make much of a difference when it still unnecessarily handicaps the player. Imagine playing Legend of Zelda but walking used up stamina, that would be stupid and make the game unbearable to play, that’s essentially how skull and bones is. Have to wait for God to catch their breath before you can travel 10 meters.

[@FunnyFreak_]

@@evanrutledge-sz4yo It is like legend of zelda, walking doesnt take up stamina but sprinting does, so does trimming the sails in snb, dont see the problem with that, most complains I habe heard, are just that the game is too mmo like, that the quests are mmo qests, and some other bs that you would know if you played both bf and snb and btw, you could just eat food, gives you 40-45% of your stamina bar every 10 seconds, so if you run out of stamina thats your fault for not using the games mechanics to its fullest

[@chaost4544]

@@FunnyFreak_ stamina for a crew is f'ing stupid in a game set in the pirate and "ship of the line" era in naval history. No silly gaming analogy can account for real history of this era. Any justification for a stamina bar for anything in this era of ship combat is laughable. As an example, the Battle of Trafalgar lasted five hours and nobody on any side had an issue of creating a constant field of fire. No stamina bar stopped 100+ gun ships from consistently unloading a broadside minute by minute, hour after hour. There's no reason to justify a bad game. Just stop.

[@FunnyFreak_]

@@chaost4544 Its just an mmo, there will be shitty mechanics, no matter what, sorry that you cant stand mmos but I cant change that

[@wp2746]

There are TWO swords in the entire game, held by npc’s 😂

[@ggmann13]

The day skull and bones died was the day they decided to make it a live service.

[@blurwake]

it is crazy how many people try to defend it being a live service game.

[@ThingAnderson]

THIS. Exactly this. I don’t get why people defend “live service”. What more does it take for them to realize that it’s the kids of death. Right next to woke BS.

[@thomasov2004]

@@ThingAnderson seeing all those female "pirates" looks so silly.

[@ThePalebloodMaiden]

@@thomasov2004 i am personally fine with seeing multiple female characters or even playing as a female because that's what i prefer, but i do agree that it doesn't/shouldn't work in a lot of games due to historical events (not really events, i just mean the past)

[@mugnuz]

nothing wrong with live service... its just the gameplay and questdesign thats horrible. i mean thats not much to be left and nothing from it is above average.... and of course the businessplan/monetirization sucks big time which could make a lsg legit

[@MaximusTruth]

the day it died? Dude, it was Dead On Arrival.

[@turtle4826]

I forgot it came out lol

[@brendonrookes1151]

i dont know why so many people hate it if you went in with expectations that it would be black flags 2 thats on you not them

[@arranchace1306]

No man, this game was dead on conception and was still born.

[@ExhiledGod2]

​@@arranchace1306 Stillbirth?

[@fatguy4137]

We tried to shoot it on release but it came half rotten.

[@shivan2418]

2023-2024 has been fascinating to watch. All the old legacy studios Blizzard, Ubisoft and Bethesda all delivered resounding failures. They get their ass handed to them by small indie studios or even a single guy in the case of lethal company.

[@awdrifter3394]

We're seeing the diversity hire cancer killing these devs.

[@BaronVonMott]

It almost feels like we're entering some kind of "gaming renaissance", a turning point in the industry where new influences rise to challenge the established order...

[@shivan2418]

I think we need another gaming crash first.@@BaronVonMott

[@One.Zero.One101]

As a developer I feel I need to point out, just because you see it in the gameplay trailer, doesn't mean it's in the game. It's not that they were "removed", it's possible they were never there in the first place. They are 3D models created specifically for the trailer for false advertising. The next question is why not just put them in the game? Well just because you see a facade, doesn't mean it's working under the hood. It's very easy to fake a result. For example you can shoot a gun and hit its target, but that doesn't mean there's actually physics under the hood. Physics can be faked, features can be faked, game mechanics can be faked. These tech demos are developed concurrently with the game, and they are separate entities. When people say the flying serpents were "removed" in No Man's Sky, no they weren't removed. Those things are trailer bait and were never in the game. People think only cinematic trailers can be faked, but 3D environments can be faked too.

[@Btobebone]

the problem is that games like diablo immortal make so much money from the absolute losers of the world, they can ship multiple failures alongside that and come out ahead still

[@ANONM60D]

"this game is too big to fall. Just like the banks of the U.S." whoever was dumb enough to make this statement should feel lucky to be employed. Hopefully no longer in a supervisory position.

[@owenlj6261]

No, it makes perfect sense, most people just misunderstand what "too big to fail" means. It doesn't mean "it's too big that it cant fail," but that "it's so important and big that letting it fail would be disastrous," to the nation, or in this case, the company. The employee is saying that ubisoft corporate thought this was too important to the company to let it fail, hence the ridiculous amount of time and money put into a flawed and mediocre product/idea.

[@Smulenify]

If they had taken Black Flag and just removed some of the game play (assassin stuff) it still would have been a better pirate game than this.

[@asscheeks3212]

Boarding ships were the best but apparently they think that's the assassin stuff

[@TheVisualDigitalArts]

Exactly, That’s basically what we wanted

[@R3TR0J4N]

Crazy they did that with Immortal Fenyx being a AC RPG game w/o the Assasin stuff as its own identity, and then there's Skull and Bones..

[@pretzelbomb6105]

Make Black Flag with the gameplay loop of Sid Mier’s Pirates and up to 4-player co-op. Boom, suddenly people might trust your company again.

[@CosplayZine]

They showed fake game play mechanics and high poly models at e3. It should be considered false advertisement. They had no actual game to speak of. Just some animations and fluff. And their PR told us in one of their excuses for the delay "they were trying to fit a pirate game in the world we live in now" Just no. They didn't care if it was true to actual pirate history or lore. They didn't care about pirates or what they actually did and it shows. Pirates didn't have to hunt to survive for the most part, they just plundered other ships. They grifted off a popular theme and it's sad. They turned off their comments to avoid backlash and any feedback from their potential customers. That is a spit in the face.

[@hpharold23]

Skulls and Bones is made for investors, not for gamers. It's a bare minimum of a pirate. It's not even a pirate game. A ship battle game. When you control your character on hubs, it feels disconnected from the world, an afterthought, and it feels like it used to be a menu, but that made it into a hub. Imagine watching Pirates of the Caribbean, but all the footage happens on the ship. The atrocious Pre-orders packs and MTXs' design to milk a sinking ship. Overall, it feels like a chore to play Skulls and Bones. Clearly, the team is very talented, but the direction of the game steered in the wrong way. A massive titanic disaster all over again. Skulls and Bones is made for investors, not for gamers.

[@bvyup2112]

ship fighting with healing cannon balls and stamina bars

[@moshunit96]

Its basically stripped down to what a mobile game is now. Glued to your ship or a hub. Lots of boring resource gathering. No mele fighting. Lots of cool looking islands you can't go to. Its actually almost identical to an old assassin's creed sandbox style mobile game about pirates. The only major difference is the ship to ship combat was turn based and it was single player.

[@Revolving-my2zu]

You’re declaring your own ignorance to business in video game creating. This is a live service game.

[@Revolving-my2zu]

Just about every major business is about investors and profit. Did you not learn anything about business? This content creator is a business whose concern is making advertising revenue off his opinion only. Nothing more. So the content creator is in the same boat as the business he is ignorantly slamming

[@R3TR0J4N]

stamina bar on a ship and their sale pitch of "forget everything you know about pirate fantasy" are text book mobilegame

[@AJayZy]

The only pirates are the devs stealing you people’s money 🤣🤣

[@Gh0stDrag0n1]

Man the miscrotransactions!

[@Machiave11i]

And yet, people will continue to buy from this company. That's the really funny part.

[@AJayZy]

@@Machiave11i I’m getting replies on other comments defending this game. I think we should just leave the scene

[@digge2210]

So meta

[@chaost4544]

20:50 is the #1 reason why "Skull and Bones" was a thing. It may have initially started as an honest project but quickly evolved into a way Ubisoft can get tax breaks and a government to give Ubisoft money. Singapore essentially called them on their BS and forced them to release the project with threat of suing them with heavy financial damages.

[@cameronward9443]

I just don't get why it's so hard? Everyone keeps talking about Black Flag... but literally all the Assassins creed games had a level of ship combat post black flag. Rogue was essentially a reskinned sequal, and Odyssey was probably the best ship based Assassins creed game. My point is... they were still making these games while Skull and Bones was in development. The level of incompetence is astounding when you realize they were making competent ship based open world games just down the hall, and this is the crap they came up with?

[@BlueShellshock]

I feel like it was a game run by suits rather than designers. They start saying “hey, it would be cool if…” when it’s already half built. You change ideas at the mock-up stage, not the gameplay stage.

[@DETRACT0RD00M]

Hahaha, brutal dude

[@terrylandess6072]

Syndicate had 'train' combat and Unity had . . . French.

[@PuffyJelly]

They are losing talents which give us a glimpse into atrocious management of big company in game industry. A lot of things they are able to do in the past are not in the newer game cause they just don't know how to do it anymore.

[@KaoticReach1999]

No, Odyssey was the first step in downgrading like S&B from Black Flag You couldn't even enter your ship/captains cabin, removing things instead of adding onto Exactly what they did here

[@Gliese380]

Back to Sid Meier's Pirates!

[@Slick10836]

we really need Sid Meier's Pirates 2 or at least a remaster

[@R3TR0J4N]

great opportunity for a new Sid Meier Priate game

[@burningphoneix]

Still undefeated all these years.

[@SkyPilot-qx2sb]

@@Slick10836 Dude if they remastered the game and maybe tweaked it a little to where you could also have a female protaganist as well as romance male characters..... It would be in contention for best pirate game of all time.

[@cttommy73]

The problem I can see is none of the devs or leadership bothered to listen to the fans, the paying customers. Just make Blackflag, minus AC. It was that simple and everyone literally chose the opposite of that. We complain as gamers about sequels like sports games, FPS games and the likes, which literally barely change anything at all, but they still sell like hotcakes. Because they just gave people more of what they want. Even Pokemon, which is taking more and more content away and releasing more and more unfinished games, still sell like hotcakes because it's just more of Pokemon. When you literally can't even do the bare minimum, that's a problem. Mind you, keeping everything literally the same for like 30, 40 years s also not good, but that's a whole other story.

[@greyfells2829]

The total lack of understanding of why people liked their products is especially frustrating when you think about how we live in a world where hardworking and talented people struggle to pay bills but someone got paid to mismanage a bit gaming company that just had to make fun games.

[@MrPablosek]

Pretty much everyone knew it was gonna be dead on arrival ever since it was announced

[@Athasin]

Nah in 2017 we still had hope. We knew it was dead on arrival when we didn't hear anything else from it for 5+ years.

[@CosplayZine]

@@Athasin Our "hope" was fake game mechanics and high poly models that never make it to game play. Our hope was a farce of cut scenes that pretended to be an actual game which should be illegal.

[@ThePalebloodMaiden]

@@CosplayZine that sounds like how battlefield 2042 was released

[@evil7011]

The new update messed everything up. Nerfing everything what was beneficial to players shucked out the fun even more. Current player base including me, we are not happy at. all.

[@AJayZy]

Hard to feel sorry for anyone who bought this tbh 🤣

[@armintor2826]

Hey, ive seen this before with Red Dead Online!

[@R3TR0J4N]

i aint surprize if the game went free to play 👀

[@The_Slayterino]

FFFF experience 😎

[@A1stardan]

They'll sell you the solution soon, don't worry. They'll call it time savers or xp boosters etc...

[@nanoatic]

remember kids piracy is an honest day of grind.

[@DETRACT0RD00M]

Here here brother..

[@ThePalebloodMaiden]

thjis game isn't even worth pirating lmao

[@mrkillywiggles6022]

I hated the fetch quests to get all the needed resources so a blacksmith can make my weaponry. Could you imagine in real life, you need to get a hammer...but you need to get the metal and wood so home depot can make the hammer for you...

[@saurlex1368]

Meanwhile the reason we haven't seen a Black Flag 2 is because Ubi didn't want it to compete with their pirate game Skull & Bones. What a waste.

[@igorkluev5682]

You are no lomger the client they wish to please, the only ones they wish to please the board, and the board wants some sort of E-sports ~ Competitive ~ Fortnite Money printer

[@cultofpersonalit1888]

It's just bad decisions, pirates online game? They had a golden opportunity to create a gta online but with pirates with endless opportunities to milk it creating multiple billions of dollars easy on the long-term just like gta online did. The board would have been satisfied and the gamers too. But noooo let's make a goofy royal battle but with ships instead. Ubisoft ceo always makes the most absurd decisions I wonder how can Ubisoft still be up with such incompetence.

[@TheMimeGogo]

Remember - every time you support Ubisoft products - they will just keep doing this.

[@kingsolokillasuper1730]

i think a bannerlord pirate mod would be insane

[@user-vo4kc5xh3w]

Blood and Gold: Carribean

[@digge2210]

​@@user-vo4kc5xh3wbut its warband

[@questioncontrol6787]

Lol Ubisoft Singapore just casually laundering money for 7 years.

[@A1stardan]

I wonder if the Singapore govt can sue them

[@questioncontrol6787]

I wonder if we can

[@tcbobb1613]

​@@A1stardanThat's why they probably not cancelled the game. I remember hearing Ubisoft getting access to some historical maps of ocean by Singapore government.

[@duffydan26]

He didn't even mention the fact this game still has a season pass and at least a years worth of DLC content that has been promised.

[@tylerberg4832]

😂

[@Crusader-777]

It doesn't take a Rocket Scientist to know that we want Black Flag 2. 🤪

[@vlatepes1901]

How many fucking assassins creeds is there that's assassins creed 2?

[@Crusader-777]

@vlatepes1901 No Skull and Bones sucks after 11 years and Black Flag for 2 years and still rules! Are you one of the dumbass developers of No Skull and Bones? 🤪

[@Zilron38]

I feel like when you ask ubisoft to make a game I just imagine them replying like Jimmy Yang saying "I don't know" I bet all the good developers left and now they don't know how to really do much.

[@Crusader-777]

@vlatepes1901 let me be specific, we want a pirate game that has unreal engine 5 graphics with a story, island exploration, missions with ship battles, storms, base upgrades, level progression. It doesn't have to even be called Assinassins Creed Black Flag 2 or related to it. 🧐

[@loudelk99]

Ubisoft made it clear that this wasn't going to be a Black Flag 2.

[@Athasin]

Skull and Bones is the epitome of a stillbirth.

[@OperationDx1]

All they had to do was make Black flag with new ships and upgrades a big open world and multiplayer. That's it.

[@terrylandess6072]

......multiplayer. All that graphic and animation and (etc.) while simultaneously being able to draw the same on your game from other players online without huge latency? That is the golden goose. Why do you think as graphics got better the number of players in a match or on the same server shard keep being capped at lower numbers. I played Novalogic's online wargames almost 20 years ago - 75vs75. See anything like that today?

[@CerotheDemon]

They literally could’ve just made a photorealistic Sea Of Thieves, but Ubisoft is gonna be Ubisoft and had too many chefs in the kitchen, setting unreachable expectations for themselves because they think “more more more” but never refine what they’ve already built.

[@cadesanderson6896]

ubisoft couldnt of ever made a photorealistic sot because there wouldnt be enough microtransactions for them, even with the emporium. They wouldve found some p2w way to make ppl spend money

[@jesustyronechrist2330]

I think this game is the best example of what "chasing trends" can look like at the worst of cases. Sure, Ubisoft loves to chase trends, but at least they release these games right after the trend is dying out. But this game tried chasing trends during development, changing designs, scope, and whole ideology several times based on trends, never coming out... But it did come out. And what you had left was an messy husk nobody wanted to work on anymore.

[@standard-carrier-wo-chan]

Large game company execs try to think of gaming consumers as something other than classically predictable numbers challenge (impossible)

[@leerzeichn93]

This is economics 101. Think of the consumers as numbers so you dont feel bad milking them.

[@jakel2837]

"They put it on ubisoft connect" did anyone actually intend to sell a single copy? Who the hell is going to UBISOFT CONNECT to buy new games?

[@vicetea86]

it's insane to imagine the money spent on this game for it to turn out literally looking like a mid-tier mobile game..... complete with mid tier mobile game mechanics, and possible worse graphics. Customers : "We want black flag with Co op" ubisoft : "OK!" From guaranteed low work cash cow , to whatever the fuck they did with it..

[@hiighcalibre]

Imagine a game where start off as a young boy and get a job climbing rigging and cleaning decks and you have tasks to do each day... As you progress emergent events happen, storms, combat events... and as your ship mates die in combat or of scurvy you get promoted and take on new roles... until you are the captain. Make it rich and detailed with a compelling story of betrayal (see Red Dead or Kingdom Come). That takes works though, it's easier to just recycle the cash store from the last game. Not going to get it anything like that from Ubisoft though, not in a million years. Sink the French Fleet like Churchill on a bender!

[@Strix2031]

That game would be absurdly niche and really boring for most people

[@anzelmasmatutis2500]

"AAAA" game that crumbled under own weight.

[@beardedsavagegaming1212]

The ship has stamina lmfao mad me laugh hard lol

[@davidroudebush6947]

The ship in assassins creed odyssey has a stamina bar and no one complained

[@Zelorp]

@davidroudebush6947 Probably lost in all the other broken things about that particular pile of Ubislop.

[@trevorslinkard31]

Who ever thought we’d be in an age where instead of getting hyped for the next big title and waiting for 12AM at GameStop, to now we’re all like “glad I didn’t preorder that one”

[@LuciferMorningstar-tx6ce]

This video came out with perfect timing, there was an update for skull and bones today and the devs have massacerd the endgame

[@Som09mer]

What did they do?

[@LuciferMorningstar-tx6ce]

@@Som09mer They nerfed the Pieces of 8 production, a level 10 factory would produce 500per hour with a max capacity of 4500, they nerfed producting to about 80-100per hour, which means thry take 45 hours to fill. And they increased the cost of running your factorys by 80% so your having to grind over a million silver per day to keep your production up.

[@smalliehuntermatthubbard2539]

Yep.. i had 300k silver before i one it i was broke just funding the African coast. FK ubisoft..

[@JeovahLovesYou]

​@@LuciferMorningstar-tx6ce it takes 2 days for Horufu to fill up without boosting and funding 80k into it wtf

[@xaviers9794]

@LuciferMorningstar-tx6ce I’m sure the devs will fix the issue if enough people want it fixed a lot of people have showed the devs where holes are in the game and now they are plugging them up to keep it balanced for everyone they will fix and tweak as needed

[@KaoticReach1999]

When they took away the ability to even just go inside your ship like in BF/Rogue from Odyssey, I knew it was only a matter of time before they took away even being able to walk around on your ship at all

[@kail009]

i don't know why ubisoft would ask us to not expect blackflag, when all we asked for is a standalone blackflag.

[@umbranoctis4348]

I can only assume the director's for this game were pressured by "investor's want this to be a pvp moneyprinting machine", otherwise, how hard could it have been to set the direction to "make a Blackflag multiplayer mod"? That's all this game ever needed to be. Take out the Assassin's stuff and just let people be real pirates, shoehorn the pvp mode and cash shop in to please the higher ups and you're done.

[@sleeping_forestgamingaccou9009]

Could you do a comparison between skull and bones on release and Sea of Theives on release.

[@williamedwards4151]

It was actually insane how much they actually ignored what their own audience was telling them. Like, imagine going to a restaurant and you want a cheeseburger but the cook ignores your order and serves you artichoke soup. And it takes him forever to even serve it to you. And it was originally going to be a quesadilla.

[@BlazerBoy1337]

So its shit because they got greedy again. Got it.

[@little_lord_tam]

In case it makes you happy, they spent around 200million for it and made **at best** 60 Million in sales, so they lost 140 Million bucks . I dont know about Microtransaktionsactions tho but either way, the game failed

[@BlazerBoy1337]

@@little_lord_tam And I bet that doesn't include the marketing cost. That did make me happy. Thank you!

[@Lonkshi21]

What I find disturbing is that you're getting your sources from Kotaku 💀

[@benco8888]

"Your ship has stamina" Wait.... what ???

[@tiffyfemboy]

*Man, I didndt knew World of Tanks had an Ship DLC.* Unless someone says Its an pirate game cause in the hub world you look like an pirate.... but cant steal, rob, attack, use your sword, your gun... Yeah, if I put you in an pirate clothes, youre an pirate, now go play outside lil timmy.

[@GeorgeMonet]

World of Warships exists...

[@tiffyfemboy]

@@GeorgeMonet Oh yeah lol Ive forgotten bout that, dunno why, especially with thousands of ads...

[@LandoSystem]

I'm just mad the junk-rigged ship as seen in 12:41 has a foresail and standing rigging. The whole point of junks is the mast is free standing and the forces of the wind on the sail are tiny compared to stayed masts and sails. Put a foresail on it and rigging and you would just ditch the junk sail for a better one.

[@frozenriddle6231]

Man i scrolled for ages to see if this made anyone elses teeth grind! Glad i ent the only one, ditch the junk and put a lug or square and spanker on it, i mean i know its just a game but theyve messed up so much on it that at this point i feel entitled to be nit-picky to the point i think all the leaves on the trees are wildly inaccurate, the rocks are all wrong too

[@funkmasterfunk1221]

Remember when Ubisoft used to make good games

[@thientuongnguyen2564]

That was like, 2000 years ago. When Aristotle made better philosophies from playing classic games.

[@meem6227]

DJ peach gobbler ref?

[@alaeriia01]

No.

[@jimbeaux89]

Probably one of the biggest missed opportunity in gaming history.. Imagine if they would’ve made an open world, fully immersive single player pirate sim, with modern graphics and modern frame rate. This really could’ve been so sick. But Ubisoft being Ubisoft had to jump on the live service bandwagon for that easy cash flow.. At least we still have black flag.. 🤦‍♂️

[@daviddesrosiers1946]

Yves Guillemot makes Bobby Kotick look like a straight shooting guy.

[@terryfredrick5149]

A pirate game that reminds you to be a nice pirate before you start...get real man

[@Conan568]

We wanted a pirate game, we got a drug and rum running game.

[@Idontwanttoleavethecongoohnono]

It died when the early access opened up. I played that with my buddy for like 8 hours straight, and by the end of the day we both decided this game was going to be DOA.

[@RadiantCloudSky]

DOA (Dead on Arrival)

[@Darktusken]

The game never died , it was born dead

[@little_lord_tam]

Explain the Player count then? Everyone says the game is trash because it is, but it still made records

[@JeovahLovesYou]

Media always wants games dead. When the gamer plays it, it realizes that the media is filled with lies.

[@adamjacobs8606]

​@@little_lord_tamwhat player count? You show me an active player statistics page for ubisoft connect... You can make the number up when you don't release the numbers to the public. As for sales? It's easy to SELL an idea we all hoped for black flag minus AC so we purchased it, then we played it and realized to late we wasted money since there was a zero refund policy, add in the fact that the devs constantly fucked the pig after launch and MAYBE we could argue the game had a pulse at birth but it died on the way to the nursery.

[@CosplayZine]

Yes it was fake game mechanics, a few animations and high poly fluff.

[@JeovahLovesYou]

@@little_lord_tam many people think that a game is dead just because they don't play it or do any research! Stupid people write dumb things many times

[@Schopenhauer667]

They just had to copy Black Flag. How can you fail at that?

[@Slick10836]

All they had to do is change the story arc, characters and improve everything else. Add Co-op and some PVP for some that wanted it and that's it

[@mrtan5641]

Honestly, the question is why make Skull and Bones when you have Sea of Thieves?

[@Sk0lzky]

The funny thing is Black Flag ship combat is already incredibly arcady and simplistic, I can only imagine what this thing is like

[@acafecat]

Ubisoft having the perfect game plotted at the start and talented teams to craft them; only for execs to go "Actually..." is the most Ubisoft thing ever.

[@yammt3148]

This game made me play Black Flag again... Ubisoft should be hospitalized from embarrassment.

[@PWALPOCO]

Ubisoft coders - "AAAArgh! This is a nightmare!!" - Ubisoft Marketing - "So, it's a quadruple A project? Hold our beers..."

[@blampfno]

Every once in a while I'm like 'man I hope Skull and Bones comes out soon' then remember it already did and it was just so good that I immediately forgot it exists.

[@SOURMlLK]

I would have thought games would have only gotten better in the 2020s with how advanced and powerful tech / software is but somehow every title is the worst they have ever been. They need to stop focusing on profits and put all of their focus on building an amazing game that sets new standards and then the money will naturally follow. Its really that simple.

[@Fiffelito]

I'd say it died the day they released the open beta so everyone could see the non-existance of landfall, boarding et.c. we know from Sid Mires Pirates. Seeing the microtransactions in the shop, seeing the women with beard, the "peak mobile game play" in regards to resource collection, then if you hadn't uninstalled the beta by then... the incredibly horrible "pvp". And let's not forget "The ship is getting tired captain!" (eats a grilled shark) and now "the ship" is good to go for another minute....

[@Cameraman9369]

After the update, your manufacturing company, pieces of eight are cut in half now... so if you were making 90, you're now making 60 ... and the price of the sliver was 500 to refill your company. Now, it costs a whooping 2400 now. Fast travel was 500, and now it's 600. I'M DONE

[@WeakestBrazilianMale]

seeing the way the gaming community is nowadays i can say that Skull and Bones has now created a unwritten temporary rule that demands at least one Indie studio should try to make a cheaper, more complex, bigger, funnier and overall better game than it in at least half the time it costed Ubisoft, and the best part is that I'm not gonna be surprised if someone actually accomplish that

[@klaatunecktie7906]

Excuse me, sir, those are CROCODILES

[@johnnymartinjohansen]

Played to open beta a week or two before release. It was so boring I quit after two hours or so. To give me what I want, would have been easy, somthing like this: - Based further on Black flag, I think we all want that. Needs new stuff, though. - A large new map with no loading screens, divided into levels/difficulties, like BF. Maybe level scaling so starter areas stays relevant. Possible to make map larger in later expansions. - Same/similar ship controls. And swimming ofc. - Similar ship upgrades, but more advanced. Hard to upgrade everything. Combat wouldn't be hugely different, though, except maybe new skills. - Similar fortresses to capture, but many more missions after doing so, not just two. Possibly quest chains to open something new. - Fortresses OR additional bases in same region can be upgraded. - Explorable small land areas with stuff to do or get, but not collecting 200 chests. Maybe camp raids, like plantations in BF, with 100% stealth since it's a naval game, not land combat. Or something completely new. - Hunts for sharks and whales, not as simplific as in BF, though. - Daily challenges that are not that hard (Odysseys have this), and weekly legendary ships that ofc are challenging. Maybe much more advanced system for repetables. - Possibly a faction system, but not a huge grind for it. Could unlock treasure maps and more in each region. - OPTIONAL co-op, maybe including lfg option or similar to take on mege-challenges like large convois or groups of legendaries. - OPTIONAL pvp on seperate maps, several modes, ie 5v5, or taking/defending fortresses (no impact on pve world). - OPTIONAL offline mode, but will ofc cancel the possibility for challenges, co-op and pvp. and a few more things. Considering Rogue (with almost same combat as BF) took less than a year to develop, this shouldn't take more than 2 or 3 years. I would play something like this for a long time.

[@iditrirajan]

Wjat funny is that AC Odyssey has more fun naval combat than this shit

[@johnnymartinjohansen]

@@iditrirajan I agree

[@liamsimpson2702]

The ubisoft who created Assassin's creed 1 - 4 were a very different entity to the modern day pretenders that we have now... I'm glad I played the free demo of Skull and bones to experience the sickness that is this pile of burning trash... I made myself a promise that I'd never buy another Ubisoft game after Mirage... I'm glad I stick to my guns

[@frozenriddle6231]

Not sure if this is an unpopular opinion or not but buying mirage seriously made me rethink my life choices, playing it made me realise that i could have gotten more excitement watching grass grow, so i promised myself to not look forward to this crap, so glad i never got this game in the end

[@liamsimpson2702]

@@frozenriddle6231 I share this view. Don't get me wrong Mirage was no trash heap, it was...okay. certainly it was better than Valhalla and the rest but...just damn. It makes me sad to see what companies like this and Bethesda have become

[@frozenriddle6231]

@liamsimpson2702 not much originality anymore, sure ur correct, mirage was OK but underwhelming, I'm not young anymore and I still remember the days when I'd get chronically over joyed when a new street fighter came out on Sega, or a new Tony hawks came out on ps2, nowadays I'm chronically underwhelmed with what companies come out with even though technology has come so much further forward *sigh* oh well guess we just gotta try and be happy with what we get now, this isn't to say that all games are bad these days mind

[@Takato2527]

imagine: - Being one of the biggest AAA game companies in the world - Backed by Singaporean government - Had a successful template in front of their face, called Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag You'd think being blessed that much, the game is gonna be an absolute win for everyone, right? RIGHT? *RIGHT?*

[@garethbroom9814]

Absolutely right in something you said. People wanted Black Flag without the Assassin bits. Single player (or at least PvE multilayer) with focus on exploration and the ship combat from Black Flag but maybe a bit more refined. When will publishers learn gamers don't always want multiplayer shoved in everything and definitely don't care about after market cosmetics. Make a good game and release it complete and it will sell and make profit.

[@calidara3236]

went from playing as a pirate to playing as the ship. How the fuck can you fuck up a game this badly, they knew exactly what players wanted and expected (pretty much a 'blackflag 2' ) and they managed to still fuck it up. They could have made so much more money if they actually did make a 'blackflag 2' even as a live service game they could have inserted WAY more micro transactions that way (pirate cosmetics , ship cosmetics , ships , base/fort building stuff etc etc) Who ever is responsible for this shit should be fired and banned from the game industry for life

[@Kraken1Kid]

all we wanted was just AC 4 wayout the Assassins vs templars lol.

[@namedname7478]

It's the Sea of Thieves killer, guys!

[@charlesdickerson7626]

I LOLed when he said "they farted over the finish line."

[@JohnnyM4all]

Everything I wanted was an Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag, minus the Assassin's Creed part =(

[@brandonpick1486]

The day it died was the day we found out it was no longer going to be Black Flag 2.0. And that it was going to be some kind of online bull shit.

[@jacobwaring9913]

Sly cooper 3 was a better pirate game

[@moisesfreire6408]

Is actually pretty impressive how Ubisoft manage to feck this up because they already had a pretty solid base for a open world pirate game THEY THEMSELVES create in Black Flag and proceed to completely ignore to make something way worse.

[@unitor699industries]

Angry joe review was funny as hell

[@thebacanknight331]

its crazy that ubisoft is struggling this badly with a modern pirate gameb but sid meiers pirates is already all of that and better mearly limited by the graphics and tech of the times it was released.

[@GentlemanMudkip]

Somehow Pirates Online has still be one of the actual genuinely decent pirate games and that shit is over a decade old.

[@MonarchElDormido]

You can't say it died when it never lived.

[@LegionIscariot]

Skull and Bones should have been an open-world, exploration, single player, story driven game. It should have optional co-op but not be an always online service game. Something like Mass Effect but pirates.

[@TITLE11005]

In the eye of UBISOFT, they don't care what the player want. Just make money enough, that is the only purpose of them.

[@RedDed228]

It was dead in the womb, Ubisoft is parading around a corpse. "HEY EVERYONE! COME LOOK AT MY CORPSE!"

[@atlantic_love]

This game looks like AC:Odyssey with a reskin.

[@NiGHTMARE_NiCk]

The development indecisiveness of the game was its downfall. In my opinion, i actually enjoy it BUT the massive amounts of delays and over spending on the budget (realizing now it was because the constant development and scrapping partly through development) gave alot of hype to the community. Hype that Ubisoft unfortunately did not meet. Ubisoft has spent $200 million dollars developing the game, and Ubisoft even knows there's no way in hell they will break even.

[@AirOut-jt6jw]

Only weird Mfz knew about this game in while in development lol

[@terrylandess6072]

This is why I follow NOTHING. The future will unfold and I will choose my path as I reach it. So many game players act like an unreleased game is some dream vacation destination they plan on taking, and it's really quite amusing when one sees them like that. Edit: BTW I also have and enjoy the game for now. When I don't anymore my game library will thank me.

[@thegamersconclave8709]

What a fucking tragic story, man. I had such high hopes for this game, I'm so glad I didn't preorder or support the development of this game.

[@rsALEX]

Just watching this video gave me so many good ideas on how to make this game more fun, idk how they mess up with such a budget.

[@frozenriddle6231]

I'd be interested to hear some of ur ideas, from the looks of it, I'd probably have more fun picking shards of glass out of my eyes with rusty cooking implements than playing this game 😂

[@derpy9452]

@@frozenriddle6231 And even after you've picked those shards out your eyes, you would still have better vision of a pirate-based game than any Ubisoft dev. Well done.

[@GalenLeRaaz]

If You thing developers were demoralized, think about the external QA testeters forced to test this game for almost all of its cycle.

[@Thibault_V_N]

It’s a ok game but for that price, no thanks.

[@joeperry2065]

It died when they announced no mele combat.

[@AndrewsSecrets360]

Prob the quickest “Day it Died” video ever made

[@mythoceanas8874]

You know if I went back in time a 4-5 years and told myself that this was Sid Meiers Pirates Online, I would probably be psyched.

[@thewaywardgrape3838]

Anthem: Skull & Bones.

[@thientuongnguyen2564]

Ubisoft's Piracy: The Death of Skull & Bones.