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canis_majoris, do games w Ubisoft Says Skull and Bones Has 'Record Player Engagement', but Fails to Announce Sales
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I know dozens of people who wanted this game because they really loved the ship combat in Black Flag but substituted Sea of Thieves as it was the only close game out at the time. These are the kinds of people who buy games on a whim, play them for a week and then never again.

Not a single one of them gives a single flying fuck about Skull and Bones. In fact, when it was released everybody had a revived interest in playing Sea of Thieves instead.

klisurovi4,

Skull and Bones made me want to play a pirate game, but everything points to it being just a worse Black Flag. That’s why last week I bought Sea of Thieves and have been enjoying it quite a bit.

canis_majoris, (edited )
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You also have the benefit of years of development for SoT that has brought features, QoL improvements, and invite-only servers.

Originally the game was very super pvp oriented and there was no way for you to get out of the open world. A few years months ago they implemented private invite-only servers where the reward amount was reduced but it allowed players a secluded area to focus on their own thing instead of worrying about being harassed by a maxed out galleon crew coming after them.

It’s actually a really fun game overall, even when you’re fighting people. I used to roleplay as a pirate, and our ship was called the Salty Swallow.

“You’ll never forget your encounter with the crew of the Salty Swallow! Arrrrrrr!”

And then the whole crew dies, because we’re all bad.

wakata,

I believe the private session you’re referring to was only implemented somewhere last year, no?

canis_majoris,
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Could very well be that recent. It’s been a while since I played and paid attention to the development and happenings of the game.

Either way, it was something we’d been asking for since the start of the game, and I’m really happy new players get to experience it right out of the box!

RogueBanana,

Damn I had to stop playing because I am not a fan of PvP especially when is on a shitty old 940mx laptop that straight up freezes every minute. Can anyone create a private server for friends or do I have to self host it? Guessing it’s the former but looks like it’s worth another try anyway.

canis_majoris,
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It’s all hosted through Xbox servers still, so you just pick it as a game setting and away you go!

RageAgainstTheRich,

The amount of limits on it is ridiculous though 😔. No voyages, no captain of my own ship. No nothing 🥺

RageAgainstTheRich,

God i love Sea of Thieves. But others have absolutely ruined it for me… I just wanna fish and do voyages… 🥺

Potatos_are_not_friends, do games w Ubisoft Says Skull and Bones Has 'Record Player Engagement', but Fails to Announce Sales

As a hobbyist game developer, my game also has record player engagement.

My wife played it for about 15 mins.

tuxtey,

Sounds like success to me. Any engagement is better than none

nightm4re,

Also, this guy has a wife which is a record for lemmy users.

iamtherealwalrus,

Newsflash: Not everyone is a teenager on lemmy, many of us have spouses and children.

aegis_sum,

I’d say lemmy probably skews older than similar sites (reddit)

count_dongulus,

It’s a joke, dummy

nightm4re,

Newsflash: so do I. some people can’t handle a joke too well.

MajorHavoc,

My wife played it for about 15 mins.

Heck yeah!

To me, few things compare to when my life partner is briefly mildly engaged with my hobby project:

third place celebration meme

p03locke,
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Why censor the middle panel of this meme?

MajorHavoc,

In my case: laziness. This version is just what came up in a quick search.

I thought it was odd, but I didn’t want to let the fellow kids know that I don’t know why it changed.

Bobmighty, do games w Ubisoft Says Skull and Bones Has 'Record Player Engagement', but Fails to Announce Sales

Typical corpo horseshit. The game is a failure. If it wasn’t, that would be the news.

Red_October, do games w Ubisoft Says Skull and Bones Has 'Record Player Engagement', but Fails to Announce Sales

Didn’t the latest shitty Call of Duty try basically this exact tactic? They cited some sort of record high in player engagement with the campaign, because if you torture statistics hard enough you can make them say anything.

didnt_readit,

Same with Starfield. Biggest launch ever!! Well yeah no shit Sherlock it was free on gamepass for like 30 million people lol

mx_smith, do games w Ubisoft Says Skull and Bones Has 'Record Player Engagement', but Fails to Announce Sales

I engage with my record player everyday. It plays wonderful music.

dangblingus, do games w Ubisoft Says Skull and Bones Has 'Record Player Engagement', but Fails to Announce Sales

Record High! For Ubisoft! On a Thursday! Between the hours of 11am and 12pm! Sparkling white wine for everyone!

Katana314, do games w Respawn's Star Wars FPS Is Canceled, But Work on Next Jedi Game, Black Panther and Iron Man Will Continue

I’m wondering if the low sales on Immortals of Aveum caused them to make this decision.

So we’re apparently meant to accept bad writing to convince them to keep making singleplayer games.

BURN, do games w Respawn's Star Wars FPS Is Canceled, But Work on Next Jedi Game, Black Panther and Iron Man Will Continue

Damn, that was the game I was most excited for. Respawn FPS games are my favorite (TF1/Apex) and I was really interested to see what they’d do with star wars

bigmclargehuge, do games w Ubisoft Says Skull and Bones Has 'Record Player Engagement', but Fails to Announce Sales
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I didn’t even know it released.

KingThrillgore, do games w Respawn's Star Wars FPS Is Canceled, But Work on Next Jedi Game, Black Panther and Iron Man Will Continue
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Was this the rumored Mandalorian game? A shame because Respawn’s pedigree for single player FPSes is short but incredible.

KingThrillgore, do games w Ubisoft Says Skull and Bones Has 'Record Player Engagement', but Fails to Announce Sales
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12 people is a record!

xkforce, do games w Ubisoft Says Skull and Bones Has 'Record Player Engagement', but Fails to Announce Sales

I guess people booing in record numbers would be a form of engagement

800XL, do games w Ubisoft Says Skull and Bones Has 'Record Player Engagement', but Fails to Announce Sales

AI players are still players…

Knocturnal, do games w Ubisoft Says Skull and Bones Has 'Record Player Engagement', but Fails to Announce Sales

I can’t believe I played a black flag that is over 10 years old and is better in most ways, sometimes even in graphics.

tigerjerusalem, do games w Ubisoft Says Skull and Bones Has 'Record Player Engagement', but Fails to Announce Sales

“I mean, the three people still playing it are reeeealy playing it, you know? They engaged in our game like no other! Record player engagement everybody!”

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