Ubisoft's latest financial call has revealed that Skull & Bones, its big pirate action game, is being pushed back yet again. The title seems doomed to sail the waters of development hell for another year or so, as it's now due out in financial year 2022-2023. That means it isn't coming before April of next year.
Skull & Bones was announced all the way back at E3 2017, but as since been delayed a number of times. It's clear the project has been traversing choppy waters, as not only has it been pushed back for years, leadership on the game has also changed over time. As far as we know, it's intended to be a persistent online game, not dissimilar to Xbox exclusive Sea of Thieves.
We're no closer to the game, then — let's hope it isn't lost at sea forever. In the meantime, Ubisoft seems to have a decent number of titles on the way, so there's plenty to look forward to before you climb aboard the peg-legged adventure.
Are you still looking forward to Skull & Bones? Batten down the hatches in the comments section below.
[source twitter.com]
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Deep Down is coming out sooner than this.
delayed into oblivion, it'll me microtransaction hell I assume, I was really looking forward to this until they turned it into live service nonsense
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi this exactly. I just don't see myself playing that sort of game
Well, Barnacles!
Sad. Just make a Black Flag 2
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi Given Ubisoft's announcement yesterday that it will be changing course to more 'AAA' live service titles in future you are bang on the money with your assessment:
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ubisoft-says-its-changing-strategy-to-focus-on-more-high-end-free-to-play-games/
Personally not interested in that approach and i'll not be buying those titles.
Bet Beyond Good and Evil 2 (if it ever releases - i hope not, as its an insult to the original) will be the same
Yarrr. The Curse of Captain Morgan
This will be the next Duke Nukem Forever, calling it now
Just call it what it is Vaporware.
Given free to play games are making much more money, no surprise big companies want to follow suite. Fort nite, genshin impact are making loads.Tencent is very profitable. People tend to spend more if micro transactions fee is single digit which do add up later much more than single 70$ fee. They also tend to forgive more shortcomings if the game is free.
@PegasusActual93
Hah! Was going to post exactly this! Glad I read 'em first this time!
Also, to me it seems looking forward to Ubisoft games is akin to getting all excited for a root canal.
The Singapore studio has been mismanaged from start to finish, it's no surprise
Gamers just want assassin creed black flag without the assassin creed part, why that's so hard for ubisoft to understand? 😓
@mrbone Yeah but people play Fortnite and Genshin Impact because they want to play Fortnite and Genshin Impact, Ubi can jump on the F2P train but i bet it doesn't work out as planned for them.
RIP, especially with it being similar to Sea of Thieves apparently.
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