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.

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.

Can someone please just make a good new open world pirate game.

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Back to Sid Meier's Pirates!

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.

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!

remember kids piracy is an honest day of grind.

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.

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.

"AAAA" game that crumbled under own weight.

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.

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...

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

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.

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

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

The ship has stamina lmfao mad me laugh hard lol

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

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

i think a bannerlord pirate mod would be insane

The game never died , it was born dead

Remember when Ubisoft used to make good games

*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.

Skull and Bones is the epitome of a stillbirth.

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

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

"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.

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.

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

"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?

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..

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

It died when they announced no mele combat.

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”

Anthem: Skull & Bones.

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.

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

Lol Ubisoft Singapore just casually laundering money for 7 years.

I really like this game! With the recent addition of the world chat and new world bosses I'm having fun solo, co-op, and pvp, legitimately

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.

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

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.

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

Excuse me, sir, those are CROCODILES

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

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.

This game can be summed up in “We had an idea and then forget it entirely”

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

"If everyone else went Right, Ubisoft wanted to go Left"...... More true than I'm sure you meant it to be.😂😂😂

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

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

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

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

Angry joe review was funny as hell

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.

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

The first "AAAAAAH" game ever made

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.

Don't forget people they put a fckin stamina bar on a ship so the ship does get tired/exhausted lmao

The biggest red flag for me was that even the first trailers showed boarding actions were just a cutscene. That maybe could have been excused under the idea that this was an early prototype of the game, but it felt jarring even then. Leaning too heavily into arcade-style elements like that can really ruin a game's sense of immersion, and that is exactly what happened with Skull and Bones. Look at the extremely dull little quick-time events for resource gathering, as another example.

“It’s not going to be appealing to the same people who played Black Flag in 2014 and thought it was really good” - Spot on.

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

It's far from a perfect or even good game. But I don't find it as bad game. Just not what people wanted or expected. I've enjoyed my time in it and will keep playing. But I'm hoping for some major changes and additions within this first year. Since as it stands there isn't much end game content to do and lacks real depth. I doubt anything will change, just hopeful.

“The day it died” never lived to begin with.

Brother, Skull and Bones was stillborn

And there's still people that think this game is "good" lmao game is trash and has always been trash. Like anthem ubispft version they didn't know what the game was even going to be until they showed a trailer lol I knew when they showed the trailer this game was trash and ubisoft didn't let me down in that aspect. Skull and Bones: The curse of ubisofts greed

Sadge. I was totally excited for this game at one point in time.

That pretty much shows the main idea for games now... this game was still in the prototype stage and the new director is already trying to figure out micro transactions... pretty sure they think "this would sell pretty well... build a game up so we can sell customizations for a ship"

We need to stop buying games like these and stop accepting the ABSOLUTE outrageous and disgusting “micro” transactions. Cause it’s only going to get worse the more greedy these companies get

I get it that shitting on the game seems to be the popular thing to do but I have to say I actually really like the game. For me it removes all tedium that was present in BF. I'm aware it's an unpopular opinion but for me it scratches a certain itch. Guess it's not for everyone. I'm looking forward to seeing how the game evolves. Updates so far have been great and I can't wait for season 2.

Ubisoft suffered from too many chefs spoil the broth

Add the entire team of people that developed this game to the list of "people that did not understand the assignment." All they had to do, ALL THEY HAD TO DO, was take the ship based gameplay of AC IV, and make it a multiplayer experience. Coulda done that in a year, maybe two.

>Hires female director Fails >Hires another female director Fails >Hires female director Fails >Hires another female director Fails >Hires female director Fails >Hires another female director Fails >Hires female director Fails >Hires another female director Fails See a pattern here?

Um pretty sure it's still alive? Just played it this morning with a full server. What's your definition of dead bucko? Seems quite alive to me!

UKposts has turned into a tabloid magazine.

Making a Pirate game should be one of the eazyest things ever ...

A lot of wokeness in the game. Also maintenance time is in the middle of prime gaming time at 7pm central/ 8pm Eastern

*Sea of Thieves laughing in the background*

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?*

I’d love a child between Sid Meier’s Pirates and Black Flag

BloodWake was the ultimate 👌 pvp pirate ☠️ game. If anyone remembers.. it was like twisted metal

Usually a "The Death of {insert game name}" video comes out a few years after the game is released This video was made 1 month and 3 days after Skull and Bones was released