Ubisoft's $70 Game Just Released... And The Reviews Were Awful
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- Опубліковано 18 лют 2024
- Oh Ubisoft... Skull & Bones is here. Allegedly it's a 'AAAA' game. 10 years of development, and that's on top of prior work done on Assassins Creed 3 & Black Flag. What on earth happened?
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it's a negative quadruple A game. or -AAAA game lol.
Sorry but your backdoor augment that the taxpayer should just endless foot businesses bills when they fail to deliver products is wrong. Payback or release should be the way of government grants, loans, and such. Singapore Has the right idea.
Outlets scores are meaningless, use player scores
Downvoted for mentioning Shillup
@neotagatg3238 in a sense yes, but if forced to release and no real expectation of quality is given or met, I'd rather something NOT get released
Is anyone else tired of hearing about entertainment companies charging insane prices for things, promising the greatest experience, and it barely holds up to games 10 years it's senior? Like why should people have to pay premium when people make games for free in their spare time that are more enjoyable?
It's like with every A they add everything gets more shoddy.
While indie and "low budget" games keep being fun.
10 years its senior? Please.
If this game was priced at $10, it would move fewer copies than Deep Rock Galactic Survivor.
It is literal dogshit.
@@Virtualblueart I saw a game called "Dark Flush" or something to that effect. The story was batshit, but it was done in a PS1 style, and it was actually really funny. That's worth $70 more so than this "AAAA" game.
@@DanceofmasksEven for free. Classic Ubishit "quality" "game"
Yeeep, This is why I have not bought a triple AAA game... Or what ever stupid term marketing comes up with next. Indy games have been bringing their A game, Have been slaughtering the market, and They never costmore then 50 dollars. Big game companies are swiftly making themselves outdated.
AAAA: Alarming Absence of Anything Acceptable
Ubisoft should have called it "We have Black Flag at home." so folks would have known what to expect.
To be honest, when they called it AAAA it was clear that the game was a shitshow
This... ☝🏼
@@chetu6792 100% i heard 4A's and instantly thought "well this game is gonna be shit on release"
it will only be playable after updates and they may get a small crowd of pirate fans to stick around, but this game will never make money.
The only reason company's are pushing for live service is to stop players from owning games. It's honestly morally fine to pirate AAA(A) games.
Agreed
Another reason is because they probably generate money from microtransactions and the number of players online.
Yyaaaaaaaaargh
Where I agree with and have problems with what the companies are doing, your statement is wrong. If you don't like it, don't pay them for it and don't play it.
You don't get to say that I think X car is to expensive, that "everything" becoming an additional cost is wrong, that requiring more maintenance costs and ongoing fees just to meet their warranty requirements is wrong, and then be morally fine in stealing the car. You still are stealing that car.
You want to pirate, I don't care and am not against it. But don't try to justify the theft to make yourself feel better about it.
Thank you Mr Straw Man.
Singaporean here. Let's just say that while the govt has successfully done big government interventions in any number of industries and fields, the creative arts is one they have failed in. Repeatedly.
Agree.
I'll consider that a victory.
does any government govern creativity well?
I can't even call it shamelessness anymore. After black flag 11 YEARS AGO they gave us mobile game copy for $70, in which they will ask for more money. What kind of business model are we talking about here? It's beyond shamelessness at this point
Quadruple A game has a high cost for continuous development :)
Its just pure exploitation. Those suits up top can sniff their own ass and tell us all it smells like flowers and rosemary but I'm glad people are FINALLY waking up to this. Between the massive layoffs, the total lack of production management, and the CEO's just straight up conning us with lies I think we are witnessing the death of "AAA Gaming" as its been defined the last 2 decades. Good riddance, imo, corporatization of art always leads to failure. I like some passion and soul in my games.
It's called the "Finance Owning Bankers' Rampant Cocaine and Prostitute Addiction" business model. It's all the rage these days.
@@scardan1070you mean a high cost for barely any meaningful development.
They'll release games until they're 80$ and even then someone will buy them.
The more I hear about "AAAA" games, the more I think it's just marketing for "Look, our executives wanted another bonus, so we had to come up with a reason to charge you more, okay?"
No, it is cost recovery. They spunked a load of money on development hell, now trying to pretend all that wasted effort was actually all polish customers should he grateful for.
Nah, aaaa just means the game costed absurd amounts of money to make and they need to get something back asap. Callisto protocol was one, forespoken was another, and this wet turd is another.
imagine buying a book and the publisher only allows you to turn a page every hour or only read 20 words per minute. Then imagine that publisher opens up a currency shop where you can buy book points and use them to open pages faster or read more words per minute. The book wouldn't sell a single copy. The gaming community is pretty spineless in allowing this to happen.
Or imagine buying the book and only getting 25 percent of it and have to wait and pay another 15 dollars to get the next chapter
Ive avoided book sites that have that model
Great point
@@austinorlando4326please tell me ur joking
@@BrandonSampson-ti1ig
No they real they have a few different models like point buys for chapters, 1 free every day, etc...
Like i said i avoid them so i'm a little short on specifics but they exist
There's a guy called Thor who's popping off in shorts but said something valid about video game pricing: for his video game he purposefully made it cheap for each local market which drastically reduced pirating. In his example he made his game permanently on sale for sub $5 in Brazil. That market is his largest now. Compare that to 'triple A' releases. Of course he was an indie developer with smaller overhead, but he still understood it was a product meant to be bought and played. Customers want good value for money, not a subscription for a good time. Red light districts have better on boarding than modern games.
Thor's a good dude, he's got some good advice on a lot of things not just game development too.
Thor also revealed that the very first Mount Blizzard sold for real currency earned blizzard more money than all previous full release games combined. So you can never ever convince those CEOs that making good game is better than monitising game.
moral of the story... the more A's a game has the worse it is XD
All of the A's are part of the word Awful.
Indeed
A-dditional cost
A-dditional microtransactions
A-dditional publisher meddling
A-dditional disappointment
The game is AAAAsssssss
So that’s how you read this rating! 😂
Quadruple A gaming truly is a new chapter in gaming. Also known as the same chapter, but resold at a higher price.
A chapter worse than the ones that came before, that claims to be inspired on them, being worse and costing more money to produce.
Perfect example of modern day money grabbing.
Resold as a dlc
More triple A than triple A itself and what a resounding success at that.
AAA and AAAA never meant quality. It always meant the cost of projects when mentioned in the business report to investors
A coworker of mine told me that during his time at Ubisoft, a very advanced alpha version of a farcry game had been thrown away by a new exec who did not like it. Apparently, a lot of manpower had been spent on that game, and no coherent explanation was given to the staff. This happened in my city whi also cut taxes for videogames industries.
Probably cuz the exec didn't see a 1000% roi on that project unlike the fabled live service (which is a myth but seems to be what they believe)
When I played open beta, the instant I realized that boarding a ship was nothing more than a cut scene I was about over it. After it became clear that there was no hand to hand or guns to fight with . It was the final nail in the coffin for me.
No way I’m paying $70 for this when I can just replay Black Flag.
I just started black flag again
Which coincidentally just went on sale on steam
For 11$
@@jmjedi923pirate it, because Ubishit launcher is ass
@@robsdroid6856 same lol
You don't need to, just don't be stupid and actually play the 8 hour free trial. If you like it then buy the $17 Ubisoft subscription and it will let you play the best edition of skull and bones. If you lie to yourself and don't like it after that month then just cancel the subscription and look at that! You only ended up paying $20.
At this point "AAAA game" is a synonym for Gollum-like...
Goung forward these kinds of lackluster game releases will be called AAAA 😂
Golumlike😂😂😂😂😂😂
Strand-like
As a German, I'm so sorry we ever invented that genre to begin with.
The 4th A stands for Awful.
rule 1# of state funded projects.
they are NEVER cancelled, unless there is a chance that the corruption gets discovered.
Any real world money store in a paid game is enough that I refuse to buy it.
What's it like not playing games in the last 20 years?
@@Cyph3rX Are you really only playing boring uninspired triple A trash? There's plenty of games out there that respect its players. I've been doing just fine not touching this kind of garbage for the past 20 years. Baldur's Gate 3 has been fantastic too!
But you have fun shilling out your hard earned money for 20$ jpg skins for your character buddy.
@@definitelyzeblackcat743 the indie scene is thriving too ! games like Dredge, Book of Hours or Quasimorph are very good, worth their price, and genuinely creative !
but even then, Ubisoft is a very low bar to pass, so even Paradox and their abusive DLC practices are still better than this GaaS shit.
Hell, even buying CP2077 at launch was a better investment than that.
@@Cyph3rXThis has to be the most transparent bait I've ever seen. Pretending so called "AAA" games are the only ones to exist is asinine. Twenty years is also entirely too long for your claim. The PS2 was still going strong, as the PS3 didn't come out until 2007. You're also ignoring indie games, so you can get lost with this bizarre and pathetic attempt at trolling.
UMMM helldivers 2 begs to differ sir. You never ever have to spend money because its easy to earn in game
That "Quad-A" game stands for: Awful, Atrocious, Asinine, Abhorrent
Live service trash shouldn't cost money, much less over $60. That is unsustainable especially for live service post Crew shutdown.
Shut your mouth! You're going to be eating those words when the first "NANO A" game comes out! It will be MARVELOUS!
don't forget lAzy.
Anti-Customer is missing on your list.
@@bousch8253Been ages since I played a Nanoha game. Those where the times.
Tell me you're poor without telling me you're poor.. You probably play private servers for games like Runescape because it's simply free.
Given the persistent high inflation and the continuous decline in so many brands product quality, I now scrutinize every product as if it were being sold by a snake oil salesman. It seems like everyone is trying to get your money for nothing now a days.
Not just the video game industry either. I've noticed this decline in quality and competence in many industries and fields. It's truly astonishing what's happening to the world these last few years. Sorry to sound cliche, but it's like "Idiocracy" is actually happening.
@@DeadPixel1105 Agree, glad I am not the only one seeing it. It can be very disheartening.
@@DeadPixel1105 My hardware is getting better. My peripherals are getting better. But there is competition there. Games have been taken over by shareholders. They will run it into the ground just like they did to housing and everything else they touch. Too bad some famous president dismantled the anti-trust laws back in the day. None of this had to happen.
@@DeadPixel1105, yaaaa it’s kinda scary how that movie is basically a documentary now.
Worse a lot of inflation is pure greed CEO admitted on calling calls they don't actually need to increase prices or lessen the amount you get they just used covid as an excuse for pure more profit.
The golden age of computer gaming was around 10-25 years ago so instead of buying new games just go play some of those games in the past, you will find many good ones.
dude i cant wait for $150 10A games. shits gonna be wild.
70$+ for Skull and bones or 12$ for Blackflag+all dlc ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Watch as Ubisoft shuts down those servers.
I didn't even know Black flag had multiplayer 😂 who cares about the servers when you could do all the pirate shit in single player.
Skull and bones is ten times better than blackflag... Play them and find out. Hint you dont need to pay 70 bucks for the game.
@@Dead_Goat black flag was a pretty fucking good game. How much is skull and bones then? Or are you saying it's better because it cost more? I haven't played skull and bones yet, and have heard mixed things.
@@Dead_GoatI doubt S&B's is even worth the bandwidth wasted to pirate it.
This is because they borrowed a bunch of money from the Singapore government to build a studio there and develop this game under the guise of employing locals (which they didn't do, they flew out people from France) They then dragged their feet and treated it like a vacation spot for a decade. They needed it to be a success and sell well, and now that it won't Singapore is coming to get their money back.
Oh no no no it's worse than that. You see the government here isn't entirely thaaaat silly about their money. The whole point of the fund is to create jobs after all. So they did hire locals...just not for anything important or high paying like game developer. Secretary, receptionist, cleaner, guards.. etc. Look, they filled their local employment quota!
@@symphonyofaria Yes I could have been more clear about them flying out developers instead of employing locals, although I think it would be common sense to think they wouldn't be flying out office support staff.
@@symphonyofaria So they hired the locals to clean their toilets. Bet they paid the bare minimum too. Sometimes I wonder how people here in rich European countries dont see how incredibly demeaning, and well, racist, that is? Then again, these are the people who are also fine with importing poor people from other areas to do the minimum wage jobs instead of raising the minimum wage to something that you can live off so people here would want to do those jobs.
@@TheSuperappelflap Rich European countries aren't particularly well known for their fair, generous, and respectful treatment of people from other countries.
@@OLONOODLE hey now we did basically abolish slavery worldwide after we got rich off it, thats something.
but seriously, in my view this type of neocolonialism is almost as bad as actual colonialism. its worse in some aspects. the only good thing is we are not directly violently suppressing the natives ourselves.
except when our oil companies go to africa lol
I seem to remember Ubisoft saying they were consciously going to pivot more towards mobile games with "high-end" graphics in order to tap into the currently largely untouched Asian mobile gaming market.
I'd say Dull and Groans looks suspiciously like their first effort into that market, they just aren't quite admitting it yet.
Blizzard did the same thing with Diablo and its making them billions
My dinsasour of a computer that barely runs battlebit can run this game at full max graphic settings no problem
The words "Kotaku" and detailed investigative reporting don't go together
This! 😂
"A bunch of pencil pushers keep a project going"
This also sums up Hollywood doesn't it.
The era of truly creative or at the very least very good film making is practically gone.
Yes exactly it's mostly lots of post processing and digital effects no more realistic effects they had to create they actually save money going digital so they get higher profits for less work.😅 It all boils down to corporate private companies are far superior then anything corporate as they only care about one thing numbers not quality. It's why once I start a company I'm never going corporate till I die then they can do what they want. Won't even put the company on the stock market that's just how you lose your company without even knowing it.
Why make a memorable film with tons of effort and heart that will make millions for years to come, when you can make hyper expensive schlock that can make money now? ;)
@@markguyton2868 *lose money now
This is true. There are some beautiful gems among the trash heap but they are pretty rare.
It's like commoditized anything. Lesser people throw money at the hopium machine all expecting their pound of flesh and mostly the vicious animals get it.
In movies, this happened in the '50s and then the '80s. Bunch of good jems, lots of garbage.
Then came the mid '90s through 2006. Little bit of a golden decade.
And then the shit storm started all over again.
And so the cycle continues.
Good and creative films are still around, unfortunately it's that they're all indie or small studio so no one heard of them unless you go looking. But they do exist at least
Starfield but with water and no star.
no land either !!
Water world 😂
Water. Just Water.
"Sometimes if things aren't right, just kill it" true words to live by
Thing is, people WEREN'T happy with Black Flag. They felt that it was a good pirate game bolted onto already tired Assassin's Creed mechanics and the fact you had to leave your crew behind on the ship all the time so you could just sneak around by yourself, against the whole pirate theme, had people calling for a true full pirate experience.
So, it's not that people LOVED Black Flag and were disappointed, it's that they found Black Flag wasn't quite what it could have been, had been clamoring for Ubisoft to do better, and they gave us WORSE. THAT is what's most infuriating about this.
Screw it... I played a much better pirate game recently, Donkey Kong Country 2. I recommend that, or Skies of Arcadia, or Sid Meyer's Pirates (Live the life!), or the Monkey Island series...
Ubisoft Executives will just have to become comfortable with the idea of Gamers not owning (buying) Ubisoft Games.
Guess I'll keep playing Sid Meier's Pirates, as I have for several decades.
Amen
Just played last night. Still a fantastic experience.
I'm so glad people still remember this game that's been on every pc I've ever owned since it released 😂
Good games lasts.
Might need to pull that one back up
There was an indie pirate ship game in early access like 8 years ago I quite liked that's just Skull & Bones but better.
Took a while to find, but it's called "Tempest: Pirate Action RPG" on Steam (not to be confused with Tempest by Atari, it has open world, it has multiplayer, it has sea monsters and bosses and unlike S&B it has positive reception.
BG&E is back behind the studio in a dark alley with two bullets in its head
The first AAAA game...that looks like an ad for a mobile game
lvl 1 crook is disappointed.
@@kukuhimanputraraharja8084 That’s how Ubisoft works
Is it the first "AAAA" game though? Look how many publishers these days try to justify a $70+ price tags for games that look like they came out over a decade ago (Forspoken, Redfall, Starfield, Suicide Squad....)
@@TheMarcHicks YIKES that's a hell of a line up there O_O
@@TheMarcHicks Definitely the first game labeled AAAA which is ridiculous to begin with. Quadruple A sounds so stupid and the CEO pulled it out his butt on the fly to somehow justify the cost of production
I love that Sid Meier’s Pirates (2004) is better than this. It is also $10 on steam too!
Yes!
With an HD mod!
Picked it up 2$ a couple years ago
Stop lying you saw someone bring that up I'm the comments 😂😂
Great game.
Meanwhile Helldivers 2 exist.
Singapore had a push for their youths in to the arts about 10-15 years ago. Which is why they now suddenly have a lot of young people graduating with art degrees but there aren't enough work for them. They also have a lot of youths from the region, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, China etc coming in to study the same art courses and many want to stay in Singapore, but there just aren't enough jobs for them. So they are supporting for game studios to come and operate in Singapore. What Singapore didn't do right is to ensuring that the end products are properly made and of a certain quality. This is just another example of government setting the laws but do not do it well enough, same as many other larger countries, US, UK, China etc. I think if the Singapore government is to continue down this path, they will not make the same mistake again.
And how would you legislate quality for art? If a game gets below certain metacritic rating, the studio has to pay the government back? You have a government board of video game experts who judge the games? Team of bureaucrats micromanaging everything?
Ultimately why would the government even care? Their goal is to incentivise establishment of businesses and creation of jobs, not to ensure the quality of that product. All they can really do is try to make sure they help serious studios with a proper plan and structure, and not scammers or half-assers who have no idea what they are doing. And Ubisoft Singapore is a legit studio with 16 years of experience. It's not some random startup.
Why would you push young people to go study anything except STEM fields, it is beyond me. Does the government want them to be unemployed? Do they want to have labour shortages in tech and medicine?
@@TheSuperappelflap Diversification, ig. Singapore survived where Hongkong didnt because they didnt go all in into one industry. For tech and meds, Singapore is already the leading expert in this region of the world. Rather than try to compete internationally with the West on STEM, it makes some sense Singapore would invest into art instead.
Also, the entertainment industry in Asia is largely untapped, meaning big money with little competition.
Just a friendly reminder that the literal job of the marketing departments at these publishers is to make you pay more for less and convince you its fine.
Corpo Rats completely torpedoing an artistic vision for the sake of a quick buck? Who could've seen this coming!
Clearly not the Corpo Rats...
Can we just normalize using cyberpunk lingo in our lives? It's about time...
@@KardfoguThat would be nova.
@ Keep it up choom!
hehe, they couldn't even do the "quick" part correctly either
What did you expect when even the marketing says it's an AAAAHHH! game.
I am in a phase of my life where I have more money than time to spend on video games. I am not rich, I just don't have too much time. Playing 3-4 games in a year. However, that enables me to exclusively play high quality games, not on release but when most of the information is available. And this channel helps me to keep updated and avoid all the horrible games, thanks for that!
I have a very fond memory from Sea Of Thieves where I boarded a docked ship and found the whole crew of 3 players surrounding the map table. Under the stairs was all their treasure (and there was a lot of it). Somehow I managed to steal it all and sell it from right under their noses without them noticing. That's a hit of adrenaline that I'll never feel in Skull And Bones.
And since they didn't even notice you, I bet those 3 players were arguing and accusing one another when they noticed the treasure was gone. Hilarious.
Yeah, they are different games completely...makes sense doesn't it lol
@@Barb4sale yeah. A pirate game where you can't do pirating.
archeage had that high stakes heart pounding pvp for me. wasn't because the combat was great or anything, it wasn't bad. tab target with a combo system. but you actually stood to lose a significant amount of money and time if you got caught making a trade run and didn't have enough people to defend it. there were routinely instances where 1 or 2 people being dumb would end up with hundreds (sometimes thousands, if the south american guilds got involved) of people showing up to fight each other to defend their friends or guild's trade ships
@@Barb4saleone's a pirate game where you can be a pirate. The other is a pirate game where the first rule is, and I quote, "be nice".
Different game, sure but if I'm buying a pirate game I expect to be able to do pirating things. No different to buying any FPS game. I expect to be able to shoot things.
Surely in a pirate game, the thing you'd use to travel should be a boat, shouldn't it?
Gave you a sub honestly just cuz I’ve been consuming this content for the past 8-9 months and I thought I was already subscribed lol keep up the good content man 🎉
The editing in this video was super fun, hope it shows up in more videos :D
quite ironic that ubisoft devs were bashing elden ring for being a bad game while they didnt make a good game since fc3 lol
I was looking at the Ubisoft sale that's on Steam right now, and it's amazing uninterested I am in almost anything they have to offer there...
The Rayman Origins/Legends/PoP Lost Crown team are the only good devs at Ubisoft.
@@tloz171nfsI don’t think the new POP game is on steam. It’s on their shitty launcher unfortunately
Yeah that was funny indeed , they make very forgettable if not bad AAA games , and they dare comment on other companies . They are easily the worst AAA publisher out there . Even the likes of EA surprises you once everywhile with something like "It takes two" amidst their yearly fifa and other crap
@@tloz171nfsAlso Ivory Tower with the crew series... If they didnt make their games always online.
There is some irony in that originally they viewed it as an easy win. Just carve out AC4's ship content, spruce it up a bit, and there's a whole new revenue stream. But Ubisoft internal issues, development hell, and maybe more than anything chasing the success of Sea of Thieves did it in. SoT is what made them shift gears mid-development and try to cash in on turning it into a copy of that. But it took so long to release that even the success of SoT had waned by then, and it ended up a hot mess. It's too arcadey to be serious, and not fun enough to be arcadey.
I am honestly baffled how low their standards were for them to end up being that influenced by an overall mediocre competitor like Sea of Thieves.
Ubisoft is really trying to become the next Actiblizz in their attempt of making the wrong decision at any given opportunity.
@@AliothAncalagonThe OP is speculating, they don't know what Ubisoft was doing, apparently neither did Ubisoft..
The game is literally nothing like Sea of Thieves but go off
@@vanquest5341there's a video that pretty much says the same things but it's in french the channel name is Aiku
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A lot of the problems that go into game development at these big studios is that there's never just a story or experience that the game is built around. Instead, they're always chasing "what will be popular?" And then they try to build a "popular" game. And that's what leads to all these management problems and even just "what is this game about?" problems.
Having a unifying story or experience to base the game around helps keep the team on track and helps management know what their dev teams should be focusing on. And while things can change mid-development, it wouldn't be the massive set-back that we often see with these big titles where devs come out later and say that they had no idea what it was they were supposed to be making.
I think its gonna be hard for the big studios to make quality games while having crazy staff turnover. Baldur gates 3 was done by a fairly small team who build up skills together working on other games.
Heads up: The Pale Beyond is 50% off on Steam for at least the USA until 2nd March 2024.
The editor subtitle/comments are new, and I enjoyed them a lot
Fun story the battlefield cutscene with the plane and rocket launcher was inspired by an acctual clip of somone on an older version pulling that live.
Has anyone noticed that any FPS Ubisoft releases plays exactly like far cry, just movement wise.
Everything is Far Cry or Assassin's Creed now if it's a Ubisoft game
Same game engine probably. Just an assumption though. I'm really not familiar with Ubisoft or their development process.
Introduce insane, psychopathic antagonist and have them do something bad to you. Get rescued by rebel faction. Go to the tower to reveal the map! Go to the outpost to take over enemy territory! Go to the stronghold to fight the (mini)boss! Repeat previous 3 steps multiple times. End credits.
@DeadPixel1105 Former Ubisoft dev here.
There's a bunch of different engines being used internally, and each game customizes its engine quite a lot, so that's not the explanation.
Also, what you're referring to are called the 3Cs (Character, Camera, Controls), and those are also tuned specifically for each game by dedicated gameplay programmers and game designers.
What I think happens (because I've seen the games I personally worked on get that treatment) is that the team comes up with a bold vision of what the game should be and feel like, and through lots of internal review milestones from the editorial group at the top of the company, they're being advised (forced, really) to make it more like Far Cry or AC, little by little, until you get a clone with only the setting being specific to your new game.
It's extremely frustrating to see the potential being wasted as development progresses, because you get sold an interesting fantasy that takes risks, and then you feel betrayed because all of the interesting bits get stripped out until you have a grindy generic Ubisoft open world left that you're not all that proud to see come out
Because its all copy paste shit. I wonder how long it has been since they changed the Code besides deleting and coping a few old lines
What I'm slightly confused about is: If they had a contract with the singapore government to develop the game (and by no means was it a small investment) then now that the game has come out and is clearly low effort abandonware pushed out to get just a few sales while it's still worth the squeeze shouldn't their government be sueing Ubisoft for running away with funds or at the very least misappropriating the funds given the pathetic quality of the end product?
It's apparent it was a money laundering scheme for government officials, that's why they're not doing anything about it. In fact I bet many government officials are happy with how those things panned out since they got rich for it.
I watched a review a few days ago that was excellent, where the reviewer noticed that the game tries and links different abilities as they've been developed over the years. It kinda reminds me of a used car, with a 1970 engine, blutooth radio, tires from Sears, no airbags, GPS, power windows, etc. and yet the car "runs" and they called it quadruple A lol.
fun fact, that shitty 'the last of us' clone game which's name i have already forgotten made by those two russian brothers, that was ALSO funded by the singaporean government
@@budderk1305 The Day Before. took me a second to remember and I've watched at least 3 hours of content breaking it down over the last week.
As far as the government connection, reminds me of Uwe Bole and all those video game movies he churned out that were effectively money weirdness in Germany.
I'm sure someone will do a deep dive and some interesting yet not surprising things will come to light.
@@budderk1305 If I was singaporean I'd be pissed that the government is throwing away money like that.
Always love the editor's comments, great work to the whole team!
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Aggressively Anti-Affordable Artifice
I think the AAA+ bubble is going to burst soon just like the movie industry is doing when huge budget movies started bombing. I think as long as we continue to only support quality games and stay away from toxic practices that I think things will get better we just have to keep voting with our wallets.
We as gamers can definitely do this, its the common masses that we have to convince to stop paying top dollar for bottom shelf products.
@@markguyton2868 But then, we're in tech. People in tech can pay low buck for something top-tier about as easily as they would pay premium prices for something bottom-shelf.
Problem is there are companies that are getting in now and getting their tendrils in before the crash to use as leverage to control who and what gets made. The money will have to come from somewhere to make games and once the Crash really happens only those with the money get to make the games.
It already bursted Look St the steam top sales. No triple AAA games found until further down the line where some old titles appear.
@@markguyton2868its already Happening one by one the people Wake Up. The free market is working and shitty games are not being bought anymore
"A" does not describe the product, it describes the monetization/effort ratio. The higher it is, the more monetized it is and less effort put into the actual game.
Props to the editor of this one 😅 thanks for another great report guys 👍
Triple A has lost its "meaning" a long while ago, but now ubisoft finally killed it completely
I know that the term AAA if for the cost of development, but I always saw it as a hyper realistic visual experience which may or may not require a 40 series graphics card to play a high settings. Skull and bones visually feels more like a AA or indie game trying to take inspiration from sea of thieves with an unreal based character editor.
@@XionSteel And then you remember that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League looks like absolute garbage compared to Batman: Arkham Knight...
AAA means big and expensive to make…
It is not the same as quality… newer was and newer will be. It can be good, but AAA or AAAAA is not quality mark. Only development price
It was a quality mark, youre wrong and im right and there is nothing you can do about it. There was days when you bought a triple A game you knew you were buying a quality and a good game. Its not the same anymore@@haukionkannel
That's cuz ya'll didn't know the meaning to begin with. The amount of A's on a title just signifies how much cash was spent making it. It's never been a signifier of quality.
It's amazing how companies want us to pay premium, but releases a bad experience and want us to beta test their games on "full release"
Wish more companies would have the mentality of Larian studios and Eleventh Hour Games (EHG). (I know there are many other wonderful studios, these 2 are just the two recent ones where i have been "Oh damn, they did well")
in the RPG space, we have Nihon Falcom who have been making quality games since the RPG was first a thing (they were one of the pioneers and are still going strong), as well as Monolithsoft, one of Nintendo's second party developers.
In the AAA first party space, in my opinion anyway, it really does feel like Nintendo are some of the only ones really delivering products that are the same, or better, quality as what they've been releasing over the last decade.
i dont agree with the price at all, its a $40 live service game with cosmetics in store at best, but the game itself i feel is actually quite good and has a good basis that just needs building upon
one of the only times I've actually been convinced to subscribe to a random channel, well done, very charmin' fella 6:59
AAAA? Honestly I would struggle to find a good reason to buy the game for £30 let alone £70. This is a game that is very light on worthwhile content but heavy as in ridiculously heavy on monetization. What gameplay exists is over simplified without good reason, this has to be an unfinished game, nothing else makes sense!
This game isn't heavy in monetization.. I'm kingpin rank (endgame in about a weeks worth of time).. They dont even have that many cosmetics available yet which is crazy free money for them. Multiple open betas and free 8 hour trial...No tricks you know what you get.
Been subbed since i don't know when, but its literally years. Videos like these is what kept me subbed - always something interesting to learn and hear about that I ought not to get anywhere else.
Thanks for all your hard work, research and editing. ^^
The original AAAA game, Duke Nukem Forever. Game that sits in development hell for years on end and eats a hell of a lot of money.
Glad to see bringing us AAAA game quality that only they can bring.
On another note, I know I was once subscribed to your channel, but somehow got unsubscribed at some point as UA-cam tends to do.
The "deal" reminds me of Mel Brook's "The Producers" plot.
Skull & Cutscenes
On a positive note, I think I will give that black flag a try after hearing about it many times. I have been wanting to check s&b out, and maybe soon I will get the chance. Thanks for sharing. I subscribed.
Ain’t no way the ad for the came come up immediately for the same game
EA will be like its quintuple A now! Then activision will be like its sextuple A!
Publishers will keep adding more and more 'A's just like the LGBTQIPGFJKHJEJKNVC+-&#(* community keeps adding more and more letters and symbols.
Why stay with just "A" games. Make is Single "A" and double "S". That description would be more apt...
@@DeadPixel1105At least it means something.
"lets add another star thatll fool'em!"
@BellularNews On the point about the crafting of Cannonballs etc....I have been looting ships from the beginning of the game from ships I have taken out and from islands....I only ever crafted 3 batches of Ammo at the beginning of the game and have stored all of the higher grade ammo in my warehouse. If you store all the stuff that you WILL need (mainly ammo) you will do better (crafting wise) later in the game
I'm about Rank 7 on the game right now so I still have a long way to end game, but by the time I get there I will have enough ammo....if not I'll loot more...lol
I believe the amount of A's is like score in golf. The less the better.
ubisoft in general makes me feel like they do not want my money
Weeeeeeeeell we ALL knew this was coming !!!
like D4 but 'open' world
I really like the way you cover the nuances and multiple viewpoints on these issues. The actual news could take a lesson from your coverage Fam.
There is no news. Op-eds & propaganda? Yes.
Good video as always, but I found the frequent white text flashes to be a bit too distracting when trying to listen to your spoken content and view segments on screen.
I absolutely loved black flag and played it multiple times. When u take all the fun bits out of black flag and take 10 years doing so.. u end up with skull and bones !! The level of incompetence and lack of dedication is off the charts ubisoft !!!!
They didn't set out to make black flag 2... You're the fool if after seeing the literal gameplay videos, closed betas and open betas throughout development time and you still are looking for black flag game lmao.. Most of the people making this game got nothing to do with Assassins Creed
I'm more excited for the inevitable Jason Schreier expose than I am the game itself.
If this is quadruple A, I wonder what would be quintuple A. The Day Before?
The images and text showing up thru the video were hilarious. Whoever edited the clip needs a pay raise.
Because of this game, more people are headed back to Assassins Creed Black flag! the game is even on sale and the original multiplayer servers still work! just finished playing for 20 minutes! LONG LIVE THE CLASSICS!
The only good thing these companies do is definitely show how better classics, old games are and even getting noticed more! They should be ashamed on how awful they are at even competing.
Knowing Ubisoft, they will turn off the servers soon enough for Black flag.
@@RatRace-mn6eb Than maybe that'll spark an even greater outrage for classic assassins creed multiplayer! nothing like fun revolution ya know!
@@vamiyt true that! Another old game that's still clinging on to life is Titanfall 1 and 2! The servers got tweaked but EAs GAAAAAARBAGE app makes them unable to even launch! Hope people go for that app next after ubisoft
Ubisoft is trying to be the next Blizzard, but failing hard at it. I absolutely hate their launcher. I hate the fact that they feel the need to tack denuvo on everything as if that's ever going to stop hackers. It only succeeds in creating a worse experience for peoples who buy the game. They added microtransactions in almost all of their most recent games. They pulled their games from the Steam store for a while and only recently re-added them (I wonder why?). They seem to have forgotten that the most basic thing that a game has to do is be fun to play.
Really love the addition of editor comments adds a lot more fun to the video
how hard was it for them to make black flag with more ship focus?
Proof that more time in the oven doesn't always equal a quality product.
There is a big difference between letting it cook longer and leaving it in until its charcoal. This game is charcoal.
I suspected it before, but am now more convinced, that they never really had any serious expectations of it being anything more than a low/minimum effort box ticking exercise to fulfil whatever legal obligations they had with the Singaporean government. That Singapore studio has worked on every Assassin's Creed game since AC II. So Ubisoft has used that studio to get work done for mainline titles in the series done on the cheap thanks to the tax breaks they've received for a decade and a half.
"Oh, ye gods! My roast is ruined!"
i payed ubisoft + to play S&B and cancel before 7 days and got my refound, at least i dint lost anything just my time, come on... the game does not even have an in game chat... whats the pourpose to have a online game with diferent people but you cant interact with them
I watch almost every video, love your takes on things happening out there. Same with SkillUp he is a top notch reviewer I would be so cool to talk to the people behind skull and bones to see how everything worked out the way it did and what were some of the choices to go down that way. Just from the 2020s forward.
AAAA commentary from the editor. Love it!
i like the text inserts but maybe make a stylized frame for it so its a bit more visible
Wasn't this supposed be the console generation that ended loading screens?
Don't think it's worked out too well
Literally all they needed to do was make a multiplayer Black Flag, such an easy win.
It is funny the opening ad was for the Skull and Bones for this masterpiece.
I really appreciate this game. The discourse around it made me go back to Black Flag. I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
I fired up Odyssey after playing the demo. Just to check how a good "pirate" game looks like.
Really hope the board votes that CEO out for him blantebtly lieijg to his investors just days before this launched. Id be pissed if he gave me that response as an investor...
Northern Irish lad? Subscribed.
Honestly your explanation of the perils of GaaS are spot on. The only thing you've overlooked is the GaaS games being quietly abandoned while their cash shops remain as active as ever, giving the impression the company is still invested in the game they've created but only very cynically.
Darktide, for example, is now a second priority to the management of Fatshark who've begun hiring people for an unannounced UE5 project. The game has received no major update in almost 3-4 months besides cosmetic hotfixes and there is no news of anything coming.