Skull and Bones has become the new Duke Nukem that it throws away years and years in development and that when it announces that it is going to go on sale, something happens that turns everything upside down and gives the feeling that we are back to square one. The one that went to Ubisoft’s star game in recent years, now it looks more and more ballast, It is a terrible mistake that surely the French will end up paying very, very dearly for it.
And it is that you only have to look at what happened in the past Ubisoft Forward to realize that with Skull and Bones they have a serious problem since after showing some little things about its development, they only succeeded in announcing an open Beta process for the month of August, where we imagine that it will be possible to test some of the key parts of the game’s development. And remember that we are talking about a pirate epic where we sail the seas at the controls of a boat that aims to be the terror of the oceans.
Why don’t they cancel it already?
First of all, you have to remember that Skull and Bones It should have hit the stores by now. Last year, Ubisoft announced that the game would be released in the first quarter of 2023 and many pre-orders were made, but as the date approached it became clear that this would not happen: purchases were refunded and since then, the French have spread a thick veil to pretend that nothing has happened.
Obviously, that dance of dates and the sepulchral silence –until the Ubisoft Forward– made many will think that Skull and Bones it had been canceled, or that it was a project that was no longer interested in continuing to inflate its accounts, but of course, in the last few hours information has appeared that makes it clear why the French are not going to stop it and pretend that it never existed. And we must go looking for that reason budget of the game, that is, to your budget.
Skull and Bones has a budget of $120 million pic.twitter.com/zRbR5SydZV
— Timur222 (@bogorad222) June 14, 2023
As you can read in the Twitter message above, Skull and Bones It has a budget of 120 million dollars, which is a complete exaggeration and condemns Ubisoft to have to finish it to try to recover a good part of the investment. Canceling the project right now is clearly not an option, and that is why the company has thought that it is best not to continue throwing stones at your own roof, going in a hurry and putting everything at risk.
He will come out when he has to go out
$120 million is a lot of money for a video game and can become a huge hole if from Ubisoft they continue to give the image that they do not know where to go with the development of Skull and Bones. So it is better to rethink everything, touch what is necessary and arrive at the stores when it has to be, always with the best possible product in mind. Hence, no one knows right now when we will be able to have it available on both consoles and PC.
And the first touchstone of this new stage in which the game is entering will be the Beta phase in August. There we will see how the patient evolves, We do not know if he is admitted to the plant or intensive care. But that he is in a hospital, no one doubts it.
