The seventh time is the charm, for Ubisoft's beleaguered pirate game Skull & Bones. Originally set to release in 2018--not that many years after the launch of Ubisoft's other pirate game, and primary inspiration for Skull & Bones, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag--the game would find itself delayed on six different occasions. Development for the game suffered from many causes, ranging from "toxic work culture" within developer Ubisoft Singapore, to the lack of experienced developers on the team, as many employees quit their jobs at Ubisoft due to the troubled development cycle.

Part of the reason that Ubisoft has stuck with the project despite all this, is that, according to anonymous sources who spoke to gaming outlet Kotaku, Ubisoft Singapore made an agreement with Singapore's government. In exchange for a grant that would provide a budget enough to fund the development of Skull & Bones, Ubisoft Singapore would be required to hire a certain minimum of local workers within the country, and, "must launch original brand new IPs in the next few years".

Now, all those years later, it seems like the project will actually come to fruition, as Insider-Gaming, who has correctly leaked information regarding Ubisoft projects in the past, has reported that Skull & Bones is locked in for release on February 16, 2024. The game will launch on PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5, with a retail price of £49.99, with official confirmation likely to happen during The Game Awards.

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[BraveDragonWolf]

I never hear anything about these games because they get delayed 10 times...

 

[Reploid]

Happy crush and burning

 

[SonyUSA]

I played the beta test a little bit and gave up after I got to the first "town". It's exploration and crafting with MMO-level grinding and restrictions. It's going to flop hard.

 

[emmanu888]

Yeah i'm gonna wait for The Game Awards for a real confirmation.

My co-workers and boss were invited last year to Ubisoft Montreal's HQ and they were showed this game along with Assassin's Creed.

So imagine their disappointment when two weeks later they announced that Skull and Bones was delayed once more?

 

[K3Nv2]

Ubisoft original so the plots basically they can't connect to their servers.

 

[dragonblood9999]

I forgot about this game. I'm not going to get it. Seems like a game Sony will give for plus. With what they have been given the last couple of months.

 

[DarkCoffe64]

How much ya wanna bet that, despite the constant delays, the game will release a broken mess?
It'd be more surprising if it didn't, mh.

 

[JuanMena]

Beyond Good and Evil 2 or nothing!

 

[HellGhast]

Hope it'll be almost as good as AC4 Black Flag, hopefully.

 

[Phearoz]

If it's anything like Black Flag, hype.
Those ship battles were the best part of any AC game I've played, which admittedly is not many (3?)

 

[pedro702]

Beyond Good and Evil 2 or nothing!

no one knows if the game even exists anymore lol
lots of people including the director have quit the team so who knows.

 

[yoyoyo69]

If it's anything like Black Flag, hype.
Those ship battles were the best part of any AC game I've played, which admittedly is not many (3?)

Worst part by far for me, it's the reason I stopped playing the games (also Ubisoft being Ubisoft).

 

[ZeroT21]

It might get another dozen delays again

 

[Dungeonseeker]

Wow, Duke Nukem Forever 2 is finally happening, the fabled day has arrived. Yeah, after ~10 years of development hell, multiple resets and 6 delays this game is gonna be a hot mess, should be great for some funny bug compilations though.

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

Dead on arrival

 

[ZeroFX]

February 30th

 

[MariArch]

This shits going to be funny as hell when it gets ripped up and down

 

[RAHelllord]

It's Ubisoft, it's going to get delayed again, release broken, struggle to reach mediocrity, get microtransactions, and then die in obscurity like their last dozen titles.