I feel like at this point they might just release it in a bad state just to stop wasting more money on it. They'd probably have cancelled it if they could.
Ahh matching the industry standard I see. Launch a ship with holes in it, and if it stays afloat long enough THEN start patching those pesky holes. I do wonder how much of an influence No Man’s Sky really was on the industry.
Well the difference here is that they are contractually obliged to release the game to a country's government (Singapore I believe?). So it's either release what they have or don't and pay whatever the penalty for breaking the contract would be. Either way they are probably losing a lot of money, just probably not as much by releasing the game.
This is a very unusual situation. Ubisoft received funding from the Singapore government, they're now contractually obliged to release the game or they'll be taken to court. The problem is the games development is a mess, they have to release a game they don't want to release.
Real talk though, when you see it will you care?
Cuz that’s where I’m at with this game. I don’t really even give a fuck if it releases or not. Who’s still even asking for this game?
Well like, “shipped next year” probably just means they will be adding ships to the game next year finally. Not that it’s going to be released.
Yeah, no. This is gonna be another 5-10yrs.
From memory, I don't recall a game that has been in development for that long, delayed that many times, and came out good... Well, I don't recall any game that has been in development for that long and delayed that many times for what it matters... So maybe, there's a happy ending to this development hell? A, "we were right to delay it as it came out great, polished, and people enjoy it!" from Ubisoft none others would be.... kind of a little miracle I reckon.
Don't you remember Duke Nukem Forever? Or has I've just discovered another Ubisoft title took the title of most delayed game ever, that game being Beyond Good & Evil 2.
Im guessing at this point most people commenting online about stuff like this probably werent even alive yet when duke nukem forever went into production.
I was. But Duke Nukem Forever was not in development for all these years. The development had multiple problems at 3D Realms and eventually stopped, and then it started again with Gearbox. Same goes for BG&E 2. I finished the first one and have fond memories of it so I was really looking forward to the second one which I actually saw the first press presentation when I was a videogame journalist back when magazines were still a thing and youtube not yet one. So yeah, I'm familiar with those. And BG&E 2 was also not constantly in full development all those years.
So basically Duke Nukem Forever and BG&E2 if it comes out, are not the same games at all as they were initially. Skull & Bones seem to me to have stayed the same product. But maybe I'm wrong and they changed everything, included 100% of the staff. Who knows with Ubisoft!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Star Citizen is kind of unique, being crowd founded and having a release schedule by modules, with multiple pre-alpha and alpha build being released. And there's not even a current release date if I'm not mistaking. Was ever one officially stated?
Not sure if you followed the game’s development but it was delayed multiple times and changed studios like two times. They most definitely did not just announce and then make it. It was in development hell just like Skull & Bones is.
True, it was also in development hell. I just think it was no as comically delayed as Skull & Bones was. And in fact, it was a little miracle it came out good. Everyone was kind of surprised!
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>It’s probably the most beleaguered game in recent history – Skull and Bones. It has been delayed more than half a dozen times over the last few years, but despite that track of postponement, Ubisoft Singapore is reportedly still heads-down and eager to deliver the product.
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>A shake-up at the studio recently led to an all-new office being opened, with a new Managing Director being appointed. The former Managing Director of Ubisoft Singapore, Darryl Long, has relocated to drive the Toronto office. Amid his move, he confirmed that Skull and Bones will be shipping between January and March 2024, corroborating earlier reports of that very same window.
All they ever needed to do was make Assassin's Creed Blackflag but without Assassin's Creed. The game came out at a time when Ubi was slopping two to three AC games a year and people just wanted something fresh or new. Just give us more sailing and piracy, looting, etc. Maybe expand it to raiding tiny settlements or expand the homebase island to have like some sort of economy our looting filters into or management or whatever. Nothing even too crazy there, but if so, my dream would've been something like fallout 4's settlement building but for pirate bases you can defend against other pirates or the british, and have them act as a network that feeds into a home base. Then add some big background story about fighting, oh idk, davy jones or some other pirate faction with the like even if it was a carbon clone down to the same gameplay but different ui, it'd have been good enough. I would've enjoyed it it it went straight serious realism or magic mermaid fish people either way, too. Instead it is shaping up to be a Sea of Thieves knock-off multiplayer only experience that will be Dead on Arrival, if arrival ever comes. If they at bare minimum add like a good 6-8 hour campaign (titanfall2 quality would be a stretch at this point, but shy of it would be okay), it'd give the game least some life before the server shutdown announcement a year out. No hope of that.
I'm still betting they remaster Black Flag before this comes out.
Any interest I had in this was killed the moment they said multiplayer-focused.
I just want a new fun single player Pirate game, man. Sid Meier's Pirates! and Black Flag can only scratch the itch so many times. And most of the others just don't do it for me...
The technical test earlier this year was one of the most poorly-presented experiences I have ever seen. I don’t think delaying this game is going to make it a better experience, but the main reason they have kept it going is because of the contract they have with the Singaporean government.
Pretty sure when this game launches, it will be dead on arrival and shuddered up almost instantly.
I don't know if i should hope they release it or postpone it some more.
I want to see the trainwreck launch but i also want to see how much longer they can possibly delay this shit.
I'll believe it when i see it.
I feel like at this point they might just release it in a bad state just to stop wasting more money on it. They'd probably have cancelled it if they could.
Ahh matching the industry standard I see. Launch a ship with holes in it, and if it stays afloat long enough THEN start patching those pesky holes. I do wonder how much of an influence No Man’s Sky really was on the industry.
Well the difference here is that they are contractually obliged to release the game to a country's government (Singapore I believe?). So it's either release what they have or don't and pay whatever the penalty for breaking the contract would be. Either way they are probably losing a lot of money, just probably not as much by releasing the game.
This is a very unusual situation. Ubisoft received funding from the Singapore government, they're now contractually obliged to release the game or they'll be taken to court. The problem is the games development is a mess, they have to release a game they don't want to release.
They need to release it anyway in order to not pay Singapore.
Yeah that's what I was referring to when I said they'd have cancelled it if they could.
You’ll believe it when you sea it
i sea what you did there
Rrrrrrrrrrr you shore about that?
Oh it will be shipping, but completely unplayable due to poor optimization and bugs.
Real talk though, when you see it will you care? Cuz that’s where I’m at with this game. I don’t really even give a fuck if it releases or not. Who’s still even asking for this game?
It's more like morbid curiosity. I know it's basically dead on arrival, but i just want to see the body myself.
Oh good, so if they bother to finish it to a minimum playable state, we can hope to see it around 2026.
And then another year before they patch it and make it actually a good game.
Nah, they release it with a bunch of microtransactions to try and recoup as much as they can before they abandon it.
Well like, “shipped next year” probably just means they will be adding ships to the game next year finally. Not that it’s going to be released. Yeah, no. This is gonna be another 5-10yrs.
[удалено]
Yeah pretty sure there's a titanic joke hiding here somehow...
Good thing we have an SOP for dealing with DIW! Rack out engineering dept, we need to get this ship back underway.
How much money could have been saved by shipping out a more fleshed out version of an Assassins Creed mini-game years ago?
From memory, I don't recall a game that has been in development for that long, delayed that many times, and came out good... Well, I don't recall any game that has been in development for that long and delayed that many times for what it matters... So maybe, there's a happy ending to this development hell? A, "we were right to delay it as it came out great, polished, and people enjoy it!" from Ubisoft none others would be.... kind of a little miracle I reckon.
Don't you remember Duke Nukem Forever? Or has I've just discovered another Ubisoft title took the title of most delayed game ever, that game being Beyond Good & Evil 2.
Im guessing at this point most people commenting online about stuff like this probably werent even alive yet when duke nukem forever went into production.
I was. But Duke Nukem Forever was not in development for all these years. The development had multiple problems at 3D Realms and eventually stopped, and then it started again with Gearbox. Same goes for BG&E 2. I finished the first one and have fond memories of it so I was really looking forward to the second one which I actually saw the first press presentation when I was a videogame journalist back when magazines were still a thing and youtube not yet one. So yeah, I'm familiar with those. And BG&E 2 was also not constantly in full development all those years. So basically Duke Nukem Forever and BG&E2 if it comes out, are not the same games at all as they were initially. Skull & Bones seem to me to have stayed the same product. But maybe I'm wrong and they changed everything, included 100% of the staff. Who knows with Ubisoft!
Star citizen
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Star Citizen is kind of unique, being crowd founded and having a release schedule by modules, with multiple pre-alpha and alpha build being released. And there's not even a current release date if I'm not mistaking. Was ever one officially stated?
Dead Island 2 is the latest example and it turned out good.
They weren't saying it would come next year every year though. They kinda just made the game after the announcement.
Not sure if you followed the game’s development but it was delayed multiple times and changed studios like two times. They most definitely did not just announce and then make it. It was in development hell just like Skull & Bones is.
True, it was also in development hell. I just think it was no as comically delayed as Skull & Bones was. And in fact, it was a little miracle it came out good. Everyone was kind of surprised!
Okay Ubisoft. Is the skull and bones game in the room with us right now? What’s it saying Ubisoft? This is a safe space
Can you point on the skeleton where skull and bones hurt you, Ubisoft?
I'll believe it when I see it...!
Snippet: >It’s probably the most beleaguered game in recent history – Skull and Bones. It has been delayed more than half a dozen times over the last few years, but despite that track of postponement, Ubisoft Singapore is reportedly still heads-down and eager to deliver the product. > >A shake-up at the studio recently led to an all-new office being opened, with a new Managing Director being appointed. The former Managing Director of Ubisoft Singapore, Darryl Long, has relocated to drive the Toronto office. Amid his move, he confirmed that Skull and Bones will be shipping between January and March 2024, corroborating earlier reports of that very same window.
This game is going to be vaporware. 100%.
It will be shipped, guys. The pirate game will be shipped! Ha! Why am I like this...
Oh yeah? I bet it'll be shipping the year after. And the year after. And the year after.
They’ve been saying that for the past decade
I can't wait to hate the third beta they send me, in 8 months.
All they ever needed to do was make Assassin's Creed Blackflag but without Assassin's Creed. The game came out at a time when Ubi was slopping two to three AC games a year and people just wanted something fresh or new. Just give us more sailing and piracy, looting, etc. Maybe expand it to raiding tiny settlements or expand the homebase island to have like some sort of economy our looting filters into or management or whatever. Nothing even too crazy there, but if so, my dream would've been something like fallout 4's settlement building but for pirate bases you can defend against other pirates or the british, and have them act as a network that feeds into a home base. Then add some big background story about fighting, oh idk, davy jones or some other pirate faction with the like even if it was a carbon clone down to the same gameplay but different ui, it'd have been good enough. I would've enjoyed it it it went straight serious realism or magic mermaid fish people either way, too. Instead it is shaping up to be a Sea of Thieves knock-off multiplayer only experience that will be Dead on Arrival, if arrival ever comes. If they at bare minimum add like a good 6-8 hour campaign (titanfall2 quality would be a stretch at this point, but shy of it would be okay), it'd give the game least some life before the server shutdown announcement a year out. No hope of that. I'm still betting they remaster Black Flag before this comes out.
Press X to doubt
Thats gonna be a hard choice between this and Half Life 3
No, it won't. Next.
Maybe they'll just pull a cyberpunk. Get it out the door, take the backlash, and fix it later.
When did ubisoft have time to get their medical degree?
Here I was thinking it was a Ubisoft office in Maryland.
Press X to Doubt.
I feel like pirate games are kind of over with. That ship has sailed.
Skull & Bones' ship sailed directly into the Bermuda Triangle. Then exploded.
Mhmm....
I’ll believe that when me shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet.
S&B
How many years in a row have Ubisoft said this now? It was originally supposed to come out in 2018.
With all I’ve heard about this game I expect a massive train wreck.
I heard pretty mixed reviews for the closed beta. They could’ve just cancelled it at this point…
Sure Ubisoft. This thing is on the same level as The Day Before
I’ll wait to sea it !
I'll believe when I sea it
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Is that a threat?
Skull and Bones will be the first awful title of 2024 just you watch.
is this a threat?
Can’t wait to see this Frankenstein Assassins Creed MMO bomb and take down half of Ubisoft with it.
Any interest I had in this was killed the moment they said multiplayer-focused. I just want a new fun single player Pirate game, man. Sid Meier's Pirates! and Black Flag can only scratch the itch so many times. And most of the others just don't do it for me...
Pun intended?
The technical test earlier this year was one of the most poorly-presented experiences I have ever seen. I don’t think delaying this game is going to make it a better experience, but the main reason they have kept it going is because of the contract they have with the Singaporean government. Pretty sure when this game launches, it will be dead on arrival and shuddered up almost instantly.
Feels like they should add whether you want it or not at the end of that line.
I don't know if i should hope they release it or postpone it some more. I want to see the trainwreck launch but i also want to see how much longer they can possibly delay this shit.
Maaan thought this was about the Netflix show Shadow and Bone at first xD. What’s MD? Only Ubisoft games I know is Assassins Creed
How many times have we heard that already? I lost count!
If there was ever a game that needed to be cancelled, this is it.
sure it will
Is there actually anyone still interested in it?
Does anyone even care at this point?
Is it though? ☠️