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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 11, 2023 19:34:54 GMT
I was in the private test for Skull and Bones, and honestly it wasn’t that bad, as far as live access games go. Could you see why it's taken so long to actually become something that resembles an actual playable game? |
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Post by 😎 on Jan 11, 2023 20:19:13 GMT
My guess is either internal politics or problems working out how to maintain the end game.
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Post by cubby on Jan 11, 2023 20:57:41 GMT
Anecdotally I have a friend working for a small studio within a very large games company who was leading on a game that was practically finished. Unannounced but most of the campaign was done, he was really looking forward to having people play it as he thought it was a true return to form from their earlier games.
And the bigger company just shut the whole thing down (including the studio) a couple of months back as they projected it wouldn't make enough money. Not that it wouldn't make money, but not enough. So it's possible that company's are cutting back in swathes right now and focusing only on the sure fire hits.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 11, 2023 21:01:55 GMT
Yeah I just read that they cancelled 3 unannounced projects in order to save costs because they were expecting Skull and Bones, Avatar and Assassin's Creed Mirage to release last year.
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Post by Whizzo on Jan 11, 2023 21:03:12 GMT
Ubisoft have at least been useful in warning publishers that doing deals with guarantees with governments to get funding is probably not a good idea.
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Post by baihu1983 on Sept 6, 2023 20:00:00 GMT
Bet they wish they could just kill this
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Post by malek86 on Sept 6, 2023 20:19:37 GMT
You'd think it would be pretty easy to just take the pirate stuff of AC4 and flesh it out a bit more to make a proper game.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 6, 2023 20:59:38 GMT
You'd think wouldn't you?
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Post by JuniorFE on Sept 6, 2023 21:11:12 GMT
The title refers to what will be left of all of us by the time this releases, obviously
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 6, 2023 21:27:31 GMT
I bet they absolutely rue the day they took that investment fund from the Singapore government.
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Post by Frog on Sept 6, 2023 21:37:02 GMT
Should just release it and take the hit on it at this point.
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 6, 2023 22:06:31 GMT
What Frog says. Why keep throwing good money after bad?
It's not as though anyone expects anything other than a train wreck at this point anyway!
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Post by JuniorFE on Sept 6, 2023 22:33:07 GMT
The funniest part will be when it releases and it's actually the best game of its kind ever made, and everyone eats their words and starts playing it nonstop  |
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Post by baihu1983 on Oct 26, 2023 17:36:44 GMT
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Post by JonFE on Oct 26, 2023 17:56:51 GMT
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Post by Whizzo on Oct 26, 2023 18:12:46 GMT
Who could have predicted such a thing?
Everyone obviously.
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Post by baihu1983 on Oct 26, 2023 18:19:38 GMT
Everyone but the Singapore government.
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Post by baihu1983 on Nov 28, 2023 18:24:22 GMT
Doubt.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Nov 28, 2023 20:46:07 GMT
I'm amazed that they have the balls to sell this as a boxed product when it has F2P written all over it.
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Post by Syrette on Nov 28, 2023 20:59:43 GMT
Haha, as if it'll ever come out. I could have the disc in front of me and I wouldn't believe you.
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Post by Reviewer on Nov 28, 2023 21:03:05 GMT
I’ve never played a game with sailing and ship based combat that I actually thought I’d pay for just that part spread over x hours of game. Slow moving craft that take 5 minutes to turn around doesn’t seem like a lot of fun.
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Post by stuz359 on Nov 28, 2023 22:35:34 GMT
I’ve never played a game with sailing and ship based combat that I actually thought I’d pay for just that part spread over x hours of game. Slow moving craft that take 5 minutes to turn around doesn’t seem like a lot of fun. This is why it's difficult to watch Man Utd anymore. |
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Post by anthonyuk on Nov 29, 2023 0:57:43 GMT
What the hell happened to Ubisoft?
Once upon a time, they at least inspired and had the courage to run with original ideas.
Even on basic game mechanics, they aren't within a million miles of the likes of Sea of Thieves, so why nobody pulled the plug on this year's ago is ridiculous.
It's still effectively the ship combat from Assassin's Creed Black Flag released a decade ago. If they released this as "DLC" back then it would have maybe been a few weekends worth of fun.. As a full price game 10 years after the event, mental.
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Post by Syrette on Nov 29, 2023 9:04:25 GMT
I think they'd have canned it years ago if they could, but Singapore won't let them.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Nov 29, 2023 9:10:00 GMT
What the hell happened to Ubisoft? Once upon a time, they at least inspired and had the courage to run with original ideas. Even on basic game mechanics, they aren't within a million miles of the likes of Sea of Thieves, so why nobody pulled the plug on this year's ago is ridiculous. It's still effectively the ship combat from Assassin's Creed Black Flag released a decade ago. If they released this as "DLC" back then it would have maybe been a few weekends worth of fun.. As a full price game 10 years after the event, mental. . As user Syrette says, they couldn't from a legal standpoint as they had taken funding from the Singapore government for this game. |
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Post by Whizzo on Nov 29, 2023 9:57:35 GMT
I won't believe this has ever released until I see it having stock dumped by retailers for a tenner and it's on GP/PS+ as a last ditch effort to get some money out of it.
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Post by 😎 on Dec 14, 2023 20:47:04 GMT
If anyone wants a closed beta invite, I have two. Don't quite know why but there we go.
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Post by dfunked on Dec 14, 2023 21:07:48 GMT
Form an orderly queue FFS!
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Post by Whizzo on Dec 15, 2023 21:18:00 GMT
I can't be bothered to type anything different so I'll cut and paste what I posted on a friend's Discord. I love how the Skull and Bones beta limits you to six hours, that sounds like a threat. It's as good as you'd think a game based on a 10 year old Assassin's Creed that has been repeatedly delayed over and over again and is only being released because Ubisoft signed a contract with Singapore. Did the tutorial bit, watched a very stuttery cinematic to get to the big port and decided I'd rather watch HIGNFY on my TV than on my PC while I played. In summary, if it's on PS+ in 6 months I'm still doubtful I'd play it.
edit: thought I'd give it some more time, just had the cutscene with the pirate leader at Saint Anne and my controls don't work, lovely. Fuck's sake it required me to use the touchpad but didn't make it clear...
edit 2: 75 minutes played now and it does improve once you get a reasonable boat but I'm really not sure how it'll sustain things. Some of the design is awful, the resource harvesting is like some mobile game rather than you being a pirate. The tearing in Sainte Anne as you move about is awful and that's in performance mode on a PS5, I dread to think what it's like on a Series S.
Anyone buying this at launch is brave.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Dec 15, 2023 22:49:43 GMT
So you're saying there's a chance?
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