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Ubisoft co-founder and CEO Yves Guillemot has defended the $70 price tag for Skull and Bones, calling it a “quadruple-A game”.

During a Q&A session as part of a conference call discussing Ubisoft’s Q3 sales for its fiscal year 2024, one caller pointed out that Skull and Bones now appears to be taking a more live service approach – the game’s Year 1 roadmap was recently published, for example.

The caller asked why Ubisoft was insisting on charging $70 for the game and potentially limiting the size of its player base, suggesting a free-to-play model may better suit the live service mechanics and give it a better chance of building a community.

Guillemot replied with an assertion that Skull and Bones deserves to be a full-price game because of its scale.

“You will see that Skull and Bones is a fully-fledged game,” he replied.

“It’s a very big game, and we feel that people will really see how vast and complete that game is. It’s a really full, triple… quadruple-A game, that will deliver on the long run.”

Ubisoft CEO defends Skull and Bones’ $70 price despite its live service leanings, calls it ‘quadruple-A’ | VGC

“People will really see how vast and complete that game is”…

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[Draugoth]

DoA

 

[Topher]

The dreaded AAAA game?

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Maybe Guillemot wanted to say that Skull and Bones will be a quadruple-A flop lol.

 

[Krieger]

I call it the biggest piece of shit.

 

[T4keD0wN]

 

[Kikorin]

This is going to follow the usual Ubisoft ark of multiplayer games. Will launch as a complete flop, price will drop heavily soon, people will buy it just because, Ubisoft will support it for ages, the game somehow will turn in a success.

 

[Punished Miku]

If you spend the entire game on a boat, it probably is huge. But it's a new IP, so of course it will die these days.

 

[Solidus_T]

If they insist! The more As they want, the harder the flop.

 

[WoJ]

 

[Saber]

Quadruple-A? Lol, is that a Conker reference?

 

[Mr Moose]

DoAAAA

Fixed.

 

[Ar¢tos]

AAAA

Abysmal, Appalling, Absurd, Awful

 

[havoc00]

Next gen is finally here baby

 

[Robb]

calling it a “quadruple-A game”.

 

[DaGwaphics]

The dreaded AAAA game?

With the way things have often turned out, this should be a dead term. LOL

 

[Hemingwayoffbase]

This feels like how razor blade companies kept trying to impress people by all the blades they could fit onto the handle.

Skull and Bones is Schick Quattro-A

 

[SJRB]

Calling it AAAA is the kiss of death.

I'm watching some livestreams right now and this game is dire. Not even boarding other ships is actual gameplay, it's a press of a button and a standard cutscene plays. Ridiculous. How do you spend 11 years on a game that is worse than Black Flag in pretty much every aspect?

This game isn't even going to hit 5000 non-sponsored players.

 

[Shifty1897]

Fixed.

Comment of the year

 

[Kurotri]

They release an amazing return to PoP with a metacritic score of 86, then turn around and then do this shit. I hope that the Singapore contract thing is over and done with, so that after this we can just leave it all behind.

 

[Alebrije]

Do You walk inside continent and have adventure there or is just water battles and Port towns ?

Becuase the Game looks just battles on oceans and find that boring.

 

[Ar¢tos]

Weren't beta testers impressions not very good?

 

[IAmRei]

AuchAuchAuchAuch...

 

[LordCBH]

AAAA? In what universe?

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Beat The Initiative to the Quadruple A space.

 

[Alebrije]

This feels like how razor blade companies kept trying to impress people by all the blades they could fit onto the handle.

Skull and Bones is Schick Quattro-A

All that resources wasted when the simple is the most effective

 

[Kacho]

Step aside Perfect Dark reboot and Callisto Protocol

 

[TheInfamousKira]

> Big game
> can't get out of boat

 

[ungalo]

I get it now, quadruple A is when your dev has gone to shit and production costs skyrocketed.

 

[Robochobo]

Singapore is never giving Ubisoft a loan ever again lmao.

 

[BennyBlanco]

This is going to follow the usual Ubisoft ark of multiplayer games. Will launch as a complete flop, price will drop heavily soon, people will buy it just because, Ubisoft will support it for ages, the game somehow will turn in a success.

I never learn my lesson with these guys. I bought RIDERS REPUBLIC on steam a few months ago because it was like $9 and I love snowboarding games. What a miserable piece of shit it was.

 

[DryvBy]

Has anyone played this? I installed it but waiting until later.

 

[SJRB]

They must've misheard what he said because of his thick French accent, but he probably said quadriplegic-A.

 

[Neon Xenon]

Was thinking about Star Wars: Outlaws today and wondered if Ubisoft might possibly be getting themselves back in order, and then there's this shit.

What the hell does "Quadruple-A" even mean now? Other than being a punchline?

 

[Robb]

Calling it AAAA is the kiss of death.

 

[Filben]

Just because you developed something for 100 years and it took the respective budget it doesn't make it AAAA.

 

[Three]

I personally hope they knock it out of the park but overhyping something is never a good idea.

 

[havoc00]

Where’s the cod killer Xdefiant?

 

[Gp1]

Ubisoft CEO defends Skull and Bones’ $70 price as a way to compensate for the troubled development and despite being a Assassins Creed minigame offspring. Calls it ‘-A’​

Fixed

 

[Buggy Loop]

Average Aesthetic Aimless Ambition

 

[Alebrije]

Just thinking they dveloped this Game instead of Beyond G and E 2

 

[TheUsual]

Ubisoft, your budget for it may be quadruple a, but don't kid yourself that you'll get the quadruple-a sales.

 

[ahtlas7]

Dudes delusional

 

[diffusionx]

I did my part on Nexus, but it's a bummer if people didn't buy it as it's generally considered one of the best VR games.

 

[ripjoel]

 

[Needlecrash]

The last developer who said their game was Quadruple A title was Glen Schofield's The Calisto Protocol, which came with a $70 price tag and a $25 DLC Season Pass that included finisher animations. Look how that turned out.

 

[Codes 208]

The funny thing is i bet this would sell much better as an asscreed 4 spin-off rather than as-is. I know next to nothing about this game outside of it being kind of a sea of thieves clone
And even then, i have little to no interest. The $70 just makes me even less interested at this point

The last developer who said their game was Quadruple A was Glen Schofield's The Calisto Protocol and look how that turned out.

The sad thing is that TCP couldve worked, but going the melee-focused route was so damn dumb and repetitive

 

[willothedog]

Considering the nature of the game wouldn't it be a quadruple 'Rrrr'

 

[nkarafo]

Ubisoft never stops digging.

 

[AJUMP23]

That explains 10 year dev cycle.