After almost a decade in development, Skull & Bones is now out in the wild following a generous beta period in the run up to launch. However, it appears that this open beta — and the full game's free trial — haven't convinced too many players to go ahead and buy the game.
A new report from Insider Gaming claims that Ubisoft's pirate adventure currently has about 850,000 players - and that number is said to include Free Trial users as well. If accurate, you can expect the full sales figure to be a chunk lower than the reported 850k total player count.
The report also contains a small quote from one anonymous developer - a developer who says that "this is a $30-$40 game at best". The game's $70 price tag is thought to have contributed to the game's performance levels so far. Despite this, the average player is said to be spending 3-4 hours per-day with it right now, which sounds pretty impressive!
We're not sure where this figure sits in the grand scheme of things for Ubisoft, but given how long this game has been in development it's safe to assume they probably wanted more people to jump in and play it at launch. Read up on what we thought of Skull & Bones down below.
What do you think to all this? Expected more people to buy Skull & Bones? Go ahead and plunder our comments section down below.
[source insider-gaming.com]
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I tried the beta but didn't enjoy the sailing. I have a friend who bought into it and loves it, must be a marmite type game.
If they were smart this will be on Gamepass like tomorrow. Conspiracy theory: Xbox will veto as it competes with Sea of Thieves and so will never happen….
For extremely obvious reasons.
It's ubisoft I couldn't imagine they can come up with anything original or new at this stage all faith is lost
I would try it if I wasn't playing Infinite Wealth.
I imagine this will end up on GP and PS+ at some point not that far away
All they had to do is take the Blag flag concept and flesh it out and make it more in depth... They lost me as soon as I heard you couldn't head out on land and have combat outside of using your ship. You should be able to board and have fights etc, go to Islands find treasure, attack ports and cities etc, actually be a pirate. So much wasted potential...
"this is a $30-$40 game at best"
We know 🙂 is the most obvious thing in the world. Ubisoft is charging us for the time, money and hours they wasted on the game.
I enjoyed the sailing when I played the first beta. But I didn't like everything else. Will download the free trial eventually. Just not at the moment.
Everything that Ubisoft releases nowadays just seems too same-y to me. A shame since back on the PS3/360 they were kings. I bought every Ubi game on release. Nowadays I've been burned too many times by them.
Ubisoft has become synonymous with greed. I tried FC6 on GP but couldn't stick with it. It was such a let down from 5. This one doesn't even interest me.
I had no interest honestly. To be frank, the ship sections in black flag were my least favorite parts about that game.
I dread any game that includes sailing ships, and worse, sea battles. I am still scarred by Assassins Creed Black Flag.
@blourf how come?
Garbage game is garbage. How embarrassing to release this at the same time as Helldivers 2.
It is one third of an older game that they ruined what made it fun and are charging full price. Must not be hard to be a Ubisoft executive with decision making skills like that.
Honestly, it’s not as bad as people want to say it is as a game, buuut… it’s just not substantial enough of an experience to warrant its price tag. It plays like a proof of concept phase game. It’s just empty for what it is and feels like half the features just never happened. Ubi had to know this one was dead in the water before releasing it. It’s a totally different story from Suicide Squad, which I do think some at Rocksteady really believed in that one.
I loved UBISOFT in the early days of Xbox 360. It was ambitious and violent. Lately it seems to have lost its fangs and is more interested in politics than a fascinating worldview.
I think the poor sales are BECAUSE of the free trial. People could see what trash this game turned out to be, as expected by so many.
"this is a $30-$40 game at best"
Give it a week or two.
This a a quadruple B game
It might be something to do with the game itself, it's nothing special at all. Also, with them saying it's a quadruple A game when it's clearly far far from it is just settling themselves up for failure. Ubisoft blatantly lied..
Bad decision-making from Ubisoft not to feature it on game pass in joint-partnetship, let me explain , the game is lacking in objective community feedback , by choosing to reduce the number of players - read skip game pass ,the studio decides on capitalizing on profitmaking instead of community base and feedback - so no, it's not about competing with sea of thieves , it's more of a joint decision to have you buy unfinished product for 70 dollars, geez, s*** should be in beta on game pass for like 3 months and then launch , but no, woke board of money hungry Ubisoft directors knows better, and they are so full of themselves with their vision of the game they announce it's successful before even numbers come in , come on , get real, previous discussion about lack of mechanics of interaction on island between players , ring a bell???
I'm not sure why people are bashing this game. My friend and I played it for hours this weekend in co-op and had a blast. We can't wait to play it again. Until you get a ship with cannons (other than the opening crazy battle it can feel like a little rough of a start but we're already working towards our second cannon ship and have found the game to be really fun with a friend. I highly encourage you to try it out. Hope you enjoy!
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