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Skull & Bones delayed to March 9, 2023

Draugoth

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Skull And Bones Release Date Update

The Skull and Bones team announces a change to the launch schedule of the game and gives more details on how you can get hands-on with the upcoming pirate adventure.
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wvnative

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Unless the game is completely unplayable I believe this is a huge mistake on Ubisoft's part. It's gonna get buried next year.
 
AV

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We ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space
Even more DOA than it was before.

Nobody* wants this when Sea of Thieves exists and especially not in a year as (hopefully) stacked as 2023.

*enough people to warrant the dev costs
 
wvnative

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remember_spinal said:
It would have been buried under god of war and sonic also,
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nominedomine said:
Come on, it's not like it wasn't going to get buried by GoW Ragnarok anyway.
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God of War is Playstation exclusive, Sonic probably isn't gonna be massive.

As far as multiplayer games, you really just have Gotham Knights and MW2, I feel like it could have carved a little audience this fall.

But uhh, next year...oh boy this game gonna tank.
 
nominedomine

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wvnative said:
God of War is Playstation exclusive, Sonic probably isn't gonna be massive.

As far as multiplayer games, you really just have Gotham Knights and MW2, I feel like it could have carved a little audience this fall.

But uhh, next year...oh boy this game gonna tank.
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Just release on the same day as Starfield, FFXVI and Spider-Man 2 then... all exclusives as well. I don't think it works like that.
 
Kenneth Haight

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Is anyone really counting down the days to this games release?

If you have played black flag, then how much more can they add to the naval combat. If you are looking forward to it I am happy for you, but I think I just have AC fatigue, this game has been in development hell for years.
 
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Flutta

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What a money sink this game has been for Ubi. Someone is prob getting smoked before or after this game hits the streets. 🤣
 
SJRB

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Ubi: Unfortunately we have to delay Skull & Bones
Literally everyone except those poor devs who have been slaving away for seven years on a game nobody asked for and nobody wants:

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remember_spinal

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wvnative said:
God of War is Playstation exclusive, Sonic probably isn't gonna be massive.

As far as multiplayer games, you really just have Gotham Knights and MW2, I feel like it could have carved a little audience this fall.

But uhh, next year...oh boy this game gonna tank.
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This game barely had a shot if it released without big games, it doesn’t matter if they’re exclusive or not. Its just another nail in its coffin to release alongside more popular and wanted franchises

Its gonna be the 2023 Babylons fall
 
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Umbasaborne

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Yves now has to try to explain to investors why they dont have a single multiplatform blokbuster releasing this year. He fucked up
 
ChorizoPicozo

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I wish someone other that Jason "Agenda Driven" schrerir. (Or whatever) would make a report (from a production-managment pov) about all these kind of issues.

Because devs make it look that videogames are harder than sending a fucking drone to mars.
 
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ChorizoPicozo said:
I wish someone other that Jason "Agenda Driven" schrerir. (Or whatever) would make a report (from a production-managment pov) about all these kind of issues.

Because devs make it look that videogames are harder than sending a fucking drone to mars.
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No doubt game development only gets harder each generation. Certainly a factor, but my guess is the constant delays are more attributable to anti-crunch policies. And I would be very interested in a comprehensive investigation into how much the ant-crunch crowd is costing these companies in real life money. I am open to the possibility that the losses are negligible or possibly net gains. I just can't believe it though without hard data to back that up. Short of evidence to the contrary, I have to believe delaying a game from pre-holidays to March / June is a significant loss if not devastating. Even if the game sells the same number of units over a year or two long period, I have to believe they sell less at full MSRP when launching outside of the fall window.
 
Johnny Concrete

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The whole boat stuff was just a side-thing in Black Flag (which I remember now was my first PS4 game I played at LAUNCH, wow), why would anyone wants to play just half a game?

It's like the next Rocksteady game will feature just driving around the Batmobile and doing the Tank Battles.
 
Inuteu

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At this point I think no one cares about this game

Its far beyond the point of surfing the AC black flag wave
 
FUBARx89

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Johnny Concrete said:
The whole boat stuff was just a side-thing in Black Flag (which I remember now was my first PS4 game I played at LAUNCH, wow), why would anyone wants to play just half a game?

It's like the next Rocksteady game will feature just driving around the Batmobile and doing the Tank Battles.
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Cause it was the best part of Black Flag and Ubi knows it was.

Doubt anyone even cares anymore though.
 
MarkyG

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Let's hope they use the time to actually listen to their community's suggestions. Such as having actual ship boarding combat, rather than have a lazy-ass cutscene play out. Will be interesting to see what they do with the time.
 
EverythingsOverrated

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It's impressive how badly Ubi Soft has fucked this one up. All they had to do is make a AC Black Flag without AC story elements and expand on the things that worked well in Black Flag.

The last gameplay demo they showed earlier this year looked uninspired at best. What a complete shit show.
 
Kenneth Haight

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EverythingsOverrated said:
It's impressive how badly Ubi Soft has fucked this one up. All they had to do is make a AC Black Flag without AC story elements and expand on the things that worked well in Black Flag.

The last gameplay demo they showed earlier this year looked uninspired at best. What a complete shit show.
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Precisely.

Black flag came out in 2013!!! Nearly 10 years ago, pardon the pun, but that ship has sailed. I can’t believe anyone will be clamouring to buy this in their millions. Especially it’s now a next gen only game. WTF. Why are they not releasing this on last gen systems when it’s been in development the better part of a decade, I guess they don’t like money 😂
 
SJRB

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EverythingsOverrated said:
It's impressive how badly Ubi Soft has fucked this one up. All they had to do is make a AC Black Flag without AC story elements and expand on the things that worked well in Black Flag.

The last gameplay demo they showed earlier this year looked uninspired at best. What a complete shit show.
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Exactly this.

Dumb motherfuckers were sitting on a goldmine but they completely blew it in every possible way.
 
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