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[havoc00]

Ubisoft's pirate game Skull and Bones is not putting up the strongest player numbers, but the publisher is touting the game's "record player engagement" as the title's first season launches.

According to Ubisoft, Skull and Bones players are spending, on average, more than four hours in the game every day. This is the second-highest daily playtime average for a Ubisoft game since the company was founded 37 years ago. Ubisoft did not say what the No. 1 title is.

As for Season 1 update, the Raging Tides update has players facing off against the fictional pirate Lord Philippe La Peste and his ship, La Potence, as part of a new World Event. Players will fight the evil pirate at his base of operators, the Blighted Bastion.

Players can also expect to encounter new warships at sea that they can plunder, as well as new bounties that have players fighting against Zamaharibu the sea monster. There is also a new Smuggler Pass that includes both free content like ship cosmetics, as well as a "premium" track that comes with even more cosmetics and an allotment of virtual currency.

Skull And Bones Breaks Records At Ubisoft Despite Reportedly Low Player Numbers

People are spending 4+ hours in the game every day, on average, the second-highest mark in Ubisoft's 37-year history.

www.gamespot.com

 

[Kuranghi]

Yeah, the higher ups are all vinyl collectors and they're mad af about how badly its been received

 

[IntentionalPun]

Honestly this is the number I’d love to see on MS’s engagement numbers.

How long are people engaging.

 

[Jaybe]

Engagement is oxygen

 

[touchfuzzy]

You know you don't have much going on in life and terrible judgment when you have 4+ hours a day on average to play games and waste it on this.

 

[Meicyn]

Number one would clearly be The Division. Had insane hype.

 

[Magic Carpet]

4 hours a day on a boat?

 

[clarky]

What if theres is only 3 people playing on average 4 hours a day? What record engagement.

Pubs put this shit out when their not so golden goose is laying turds

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

That number can't be indicative of a very large audience, can it?

 

[Buggy Loop]

Poor UBI employee who had to find a way to spin this

 

[Mr Moose]

All thanks to that one player who plays 4 hours a day.

 

[Draugoth]

Records of flop?

 

[Alebrije]

One person playing 4 hours your Game vs 10 playing 24minutes? Wonder what UBI would like more.

 

[WoJ]

All thanks to that one player who plays 4 hours a day.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[havoc00]

 

[DaciaJC]

4 hours a day on a boat?

No, no, you are the boat!

 

[TransTrender]

How can four hours on boat when boat get tired?

 

[//DEVIL//]

When your game doesn't sell for shit. We spin it to engagement just to have any positive marketing.

Learning from MS it seems with Starfied.

If your game is crap your game is crap. Accept that your team sucks of developing games and either shuffle staff or fire who doesn't belong there.

Sorry been in developments for years. And the outcome is rubbish

 

[SJRB]

"We sold less than a million copies, but some people are playing 4 hours a day" is the saddest fucking thing you could say to spin this into a positive.

Those numbers will fall once the honeymoon phase is over for the die-hards, just like what happened with Suicide Squad.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

8 years in dev right?

 

[Herbspiceguy]

That's quadruple-A magic at work.

 

[Carmen Winstead]

 

[Wooxsvan]

 

[acm2000]

most refunds, most consumer complaints, most review bombed, worst downgrade over source material.

truly deserved ubisoft, well done

 

[Dr.Morris79]

8 years in dev right?

It's ever more evident that UBI has been utterly taken over by certain demographics, incompetent people and crap ideas that is seeing it implode faster than an OceanGate tour.

 

[Evolved1]

lipstick on a pig

 

[mckmas8808]

What if theres is only 3 people playing on average 4 hours a day? What record engagement.

Pubs put this shit out when their not so golden goose is laying turds

THANK YOU! This number tells me nothing.

 

[Beechos]

Number one would clearly be The Division. Had insane hype.

Prob that or r6 siege.

 

[ahtlas7]

I’m sure their financial investors are excited to receive that sweet return on investment.

 

[Ozzie666]

Just admit the loss and move on. Don’t embarrass yourself this way and spin.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

I know that for whatever reason the internet hates this game, but it's on my list of games to try at some point.

 

[TexMex]

A game could sell ten copies and have an average player engagement of four hours.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

This is the second-highest daily playtime average for a Ubisoft game since the company was founded 37 years ago. Ubisoft did not say what the No. 1 title is.

This is hilarious. Meaning it must be some obscure shit like Trials lol.

 

[Hudo]

I know that for whatever reason the internet hates this game, but it's on my list of games to try at some point.

Because the internet just wanted an AC4: Black Flag with the assassins shit stripped out, more pirate shit put in and maybe some sort of metagame like fleet management or so. What Ubisoft have made with Skull & Bones is a live-service game (with all the design decisions that entails) where you can't explore the harbors and land around them freely (you could in AC4), where ship battles are even less engaging, in particular the boarding is just a menu that pops up (in AC4 it was gameplay) and where the story is not really there.

It's AC4: Black Flag but worse. That's why people are hating on this game.

 

[Von Hugh]

Wow, engagement. Super exciting, Ubisoft.

 

[Gamerguy84]

10 years in dev and it might last a couple months. When you let players in for free and they don't try it just shut it down.

 

[hinch7]

Records of flop?

That was first to come to mind. But nope record engagement with pitiful numbers lol.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Does the 4 hrs per day avg include all the employees working on the game? Lol

 

[_Ex_]

How can four hours on boat when boat get tired?

 

[Fredrik]

Math is not my thing tbh but 4 hours daily, on average, seems like a decent number. Means lots of people are playing it even more. How much can you theoretically play per day, if you have a life?

 

[baphomet]

That's be great as soon as you can start paying bills with engagement!

 

[Krieger]

That one dude who is playing 568594 hours per day is really distorting the statistics.

 

[newtypepilot]

It only has the second highest engagement. Look at that AAAA humility.

 

[Sakura]

Math is not my thing tbh but 4 hours daily, on average, seems like a decent number. Means lots of people are playing it even more. How much can you theoretically play per day, if you have a life?

4 hours on average isn't particularly impressive without knowing how many people are actually playing it.
We also don't know how they arrived at those numbers. For example, they could be ignoring all the people who aren't playing the game any more (0 hours a day) in order to make the numbers look more impressive.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

This has to be the biggest publisher copium of 2024 yet. Frontrunner currently.

 

[yazenov]

Reminds me of this:




Then the result of the actual sale came out:

Business - Sales-Age - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 sales -39% compared with the previous year's game - UK 2023

At No.3 in the charts is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Although it was billed as a full sequel to 2022's Modern Warfare 2, fans felt it was more like an expansion, which may explain why its sales are nearly 39% lower compared with the previous year's game. EA Sports FC 24, Hogwarts Legacy...

www.neogaf.com

 

[MAX PAYMENT]

People forgot to close the trial app

 

[StueyDuck]

Phil Spencer to ubisoft using player engagement:

 

[tusharngf]

why do people think player engagement is a bullshit bechmark ?