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Skull and Bones: Ubisoft spent 10 years and $200M on a pirate game that won't pay it back
Ubisoft spent a decade and $200M turning an Assassin's Creed spinoff into a standalone pirate game; it launched to under 1M players and won't recoup its cost.
Ubisoft · 2024-02-16
怎么回事
Skull and Bones began as an expansion of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag's ship-combat mechanics, then was spun off into its own standalone pirate game. Development stretched roughly a decade, through more than three creative director changes and a series of delays, with reported spend reaching around $200 million.
The game launched February 16, 2024, priced at $70. Within weeks it had drawn less than one million total players, a figure that included an 8-hour free trial period — well short of the launch numbers expected of an AAA title at that budget.
Industry reporting citing sources close to Ubisoft said the company did not expect to recoup its development costs from the game, an unusual admission for a title still being sold at full price.
为什么会这样
- Repeated creative-director turnover over a decade meant the game never settled on an identity, drifting between an Assassin's Creed expansion and a standalone pirate game.
- Pricing it as a $70 premium release while the genre's comparable live-service titles skewed cheaper or free-to-play left little room for players to justify trying it.
- By the time it shipped, the market had already absorbed years of anticipation and leaks, so the actual release arrived without the novelty a decade-long wait should have built.
教训
A project that can't settle on what it is after a decade of development rarely finds an audience once it finally ships.
资料来源
- The Gamer — Skull & Bones Is Struggling To Bring In Players
- Insider Gaming — Skull and Bones Has Less Than 1 Million Players Total
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