proandrad
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Even better, 150million for a game that never saw the light of day. Imagine the total lost if they went through with marketing it.
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Ubisoft Reportedly Spent $650 to $850 Million on Skull and Bones
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mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Makes you wonder if people will blame the failure of Skull and Bones on DEI too LOL!
Generic
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The "source"
Skull and Bones Allegedly Cost Ubisoft $650 to $850 Million
The losses from Ubisoft's AAAA game are said to be the main reason for the studio's downfall, not Outlaws and Shadows.80.lv
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TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
I found another article which may lead credence to that number. Note that this is 2021 which reportedly costs $120 million which in 3 years and inflation may actually hit 650 or above.
Skull And Bones Still In Development Hell Because Of Singapore Government
“Nobody knew what the fuck they were doing,” said an ex-developer.www.thegamer.com
What kind of dolly math are you using to convert $120m to $650m in three years with inflation?
Vyse
Gold Member
If they did it would sell like gangbusters and show they can listen to their audience. Alas, they will not and go down in flames.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
So something like eleven years and several hundred million dollars, to make a pirate game that doesn’t even match the pirate bits of Assassin’s Creed 4.
How pathetic is not only the management, but the teams being put together to make these games?
And people will stan for them and claim games are too cheap?! Fuck off.
How pathetic is not only the management, but the teams being put together to make these games?
And people will stan for them and claim games are too cheap?! Fuck off.
midnightAI
Member
ReBurn
Gold Member
How much did it really cost?So the new thing is just to make up budget numbers for GAAS games to make them look more expensive than they really were? This is the timeline we're in?
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
I don't know but I also don't have to believe every snake oil story I read on 4Chan.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
This is the question I'll like to have answered. These execs need to be fired left and right! The desperation to force GAAS into games that don't need is insane.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
If you think giving the private industries the responsibility to all forms of medical care, education, housing, and broadband............half the people in our country wouldn't have ANY of those things.
This post sounds like someone that has no clue how government works.
Doctor Hades
Member
I loved Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag with its pirate them but that's because the ship and battles sections actually added something new and exciting to the formula. It was also a single player game.
I had zero interest in Skull and Bones. It never interested me in the build up to its release, I certainly had no desire to try the beta and I am even less interested in it now, particularly because it is a "live service" game, a genre which I absolutely loathe because they are usually grindy and boring, which is something that Ubisoft often get accused of for their single player titles!
I just hope this game and Concord are a wake up for publishers jumping on the live service game bandwagon. Not every game has to be a $100+ million triple A blockbuster; there is still plenty of room for smaller budget single player games and I would like to see publishers exploit that rather than online games that are designed first and foremost to make as much money out of the gamer as possible. I cannot think of a genre more boring than a live service title. I would honestly give up gaming completely if every game was like that.
I had zero interest in Skull and Bones. It never interested me in the build up to its release, I certainly had no desire to try the beta and I am even less interested in it now, particularly because it is a "live service" game, a genre which I absolutely loathe because they are usually grindy and boring, which is something that Ubisoft often get accused of for their single player titles!
I just hope this game and Concord are a wake up for publishers jumping on the live service game bandwagon. Not every game has to be a $100+ million triple A blockbuster; there is still plenty of room for smaller budget single player games and I would like to see publishers exploit that rather than online games that are designed first and foremost to make as much money out of the gamer as possible. I cannot think of a genre more boring than a live service title. I would honestly give up gaming completely if every game was like that.
They would be utterly daft to do that.
Just read this article. It's 100% legit. +400 devs for this bloody mess, LOL.
Skull And Bones Still In Development Hell Because Of Singapore Government
“Nobody knew what the fuck they were doing,” said an ex-developer.
That article actually disproves the claim. Because it was $120m in 2021 after being in development since 2013. The article says it was ‘generously subsidized’ by the Singaporean government, which probably explains the low cost.
Anyone thinking you credibly go from $120m in 2021 to $650m in 2024 has to be a real jester.
kiphalfton
Member
Imagine how much good you could do for the world with that kind of money
Hookers for everybody.
Klayzer
Member
Yeah, lets privatize essential services with little to no oversight. Great idea. The corporations definitely have your back.
Well the 700 million paid employees to take care of their families so that’s a good thing.Imagine how much good you could do for the world with that kind of money
Da1337Vinci
Member
I just can't believe this. Either the number is way off or the budget was payed/subsidized by multiple governments.
A flop of such magnitude would be I imagined definitely something one must acknowledge with the shareholders or at least mentioned.
A flop of such magnitude would be I imagined definitely something one must acknowledge with the shareholders or at least mentioned.
mrcroket
Member
I don't think it was a deciding factor at all, but it's clear that it doesn't help, what was clear with huge flops like Dustborne or Concord is that DEI policies don't sell games.
DeepEnigma
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Obligatory,
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my pronouns, or yee be walking thee plank!"
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DirtyBast8rd
Member
Yeah, like making a good badass Splinter Cell game.Imagine how much good you could do for the world with that kind of money
Interfectum
Member
The execs are playing the lottery... they don't give a shit about the gaming industry or if they tear it apart in the process. They'll churn through 100s of games and thousands of developers to get another Roblox, Fortnite or Minecraft. That is the goal. Everything else is small potatoes.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
I agree with that. I also think bad games don't sell games. Neither of those games are even good.
I'm starting to realize that this may be true, sadly. It feels like Microsoft is doing that now with their changes over the last 3-5 years.
Last Hearth
Member
Maybe it was in Singapore dollars?
ultrazilla
Gold Member
Yeah I'm not buying that(or the game).
The artful mincer
Member
No it didn't
Entirely different circumstances and team sizes. Like entirely!Now, let's see if the folks who believed "Concord costs $400M" will also believe this
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I don’t know the numbers etc but Ubisoft received a huge amount of financial coverage from the Singapore government to produce Skull and Bones locally. Included were triggers for repayment based on hiring quotas, milestones, completion, presumably reception, and so on. Ubisoft also built a new team from the ground up in Singapore for this project with a new development location et all. It also wasn’t a Concord situation, in this case the project was rebooted multiple times while in full swing. Don’t know if the reported figure is accurate, but there is probably an easier way to bundle expenses to reach that range than there was for concords facetious 400 million claim.I found another article which may lead credence to that number. Note that this is 2021 which reportedly costs $120 million which in 3 years and inflation may actually hit 650 or above.
Skull And Bones Still In Development Hell Because Of Singapore Government
“Nobody knew what the fuck they were doing,” said an ex-developer.
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Buggy Loop
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OMG, this year keeps delivering on massive flops doesn't it.
Woopah
Member
Which I think is the issue. The purpose of DEI is not to sell a product, but that's what some companies seem to be trying to do.
ManaByte
Gold Member
Skull and Bones Allegedly Cost Ubisoft $650 to $850 Million
The losses from Ubisoft's AAAA game are said to be the main reason for the studio's downfall, not Outlaws and Shadows.
I can't find the words to comment.
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