Skull And Bones Creative Director Has Reportedly Left : gaming

[+] raccoona_nongrata@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] ampersandrew@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

SkillUp said that he saw/played it both recently and a number of years ago (before the pandemic), and the game changed shockingly little between those two points in time. And it's basically still just the ship combat from Assassin's Creed IV.

[-] cdipierr@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

That's all people ever wanted: "Give us AC4 with just the piratey ship parts!" And that would have been great... back in 2015. Now it's a full decade later, and Ubisoft seems determined to instead develop an over-monetized, forever game. The iron isn't exactly hot anymore, so I really don't see the point.

Feels like a pure sunk-cost fallacy to continue trying to squeeze this one out.

[-] ampersandrew@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

A "forever game" also would have been what they made before. This game as a service to follow it up will more likely than not have an expiration date on it that the old games do not.

[-] DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

Is this game ever going to come out? If it does, I'm 99% certain it will suck because of development hell.

[-] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

And this seems to be Ubisoft's second game currently in development hell, alongside Beyond Good and Evil 2.

[-] Oneeightnine@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago

Can't remember the source (possibly Jeff Gerstman at Giantbomb) but I'm absolutely certain they said this was a tax write-off or something.

[-] MJBrune@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

If that was said, it was likely purely a joke. You don't fund a game for a tax write-off. You only get 10% of what you put into the game as a tax write-off and so you are operating at a 90% loss on whatever you put into it.

[-] Oneeightnine@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago

Wasn't a tax thing: Looks like the Singaporean government has it's fingers in this pie.

[-] MJBrune@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Ahh, that's more understandable.

[-] resurrexia@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

They’re trying to milk our subsidies.

[-] Computerchairgeneral@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

If/when this game releases I'm looking forward to the videos and articles charting the troubled development cycle from start to finish. At this point, there has to be a lot of material there.

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