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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.

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I can't find the words to comment.

 

[Goalus]

What do you guys think - will they reverse-race-swap the main character of Assassin's Creed Shadows?

 

[RPCGamer]

Triple A: We can't risk making multiple smaller projects. It's too risky.
Also triple A: Let's put all our money into one giant project.

 

[Majormaxxx]

What do you guys think - will they reverse-race-swap the main character of Assassin's Creed Shadows?

No. 100%

 

[SNPlayen]

What a waste. They could of made 2 Concords

 

[Heisenberg007]

Now, let's see if the folks who believed "Concord costs $400M" will also believe this

 

[gokurho]

Sony may have spent over $1 billion on Concord.

 

[Interfectum]

Well deserved. Anyone with half a brain could see Skull & Bones was fucking doomed. Should have just done Black Flag 2, made bank and moved on. But nope, gotta get greedy.

 

[That Damn Kid]

Imagine how much good you could do for the world with that kind of money

 

[Skifi28]

They told us it was AAAA, but you wouldn't believe them.

 

[Gp1]

More like skin and bones.

What happened to reuse the naval parts of Black Flag to make a game eh...

 

[Robb]

 

[Saber]

I think the last rumor has a valor near to that.
And honestly isn't much surprising, seeing how much people worked on this garbage. What I find surprising though is how people still tried to like this piece of poop when Black Flag is miles better despite being a very old game. Copium is a hell of drug.
Anyway, Ubicrap going down is something that would happen eventually thanks to its very inferior quality products and inserted agenda.

 

[Astray]

That figure is completely nonsensical and I question the sourcing on it.

What do you guys think - will they reverse-race-swap the main character of Assassin's Creed Shadows?

That likely won't happen.

 

[The Cockatrice]

gaming

 

[crazyriddler]

I think the problem is that the game didn't have enough DEI policy.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

11 years, money taken from the Singapour government... a fucking mess, Ubisoft style.

This company needs a serious reboot.

 

[MMaRsu]

IT WAS IN DEVELOPMENT FOR 11 YEARS LOL

So that makes absolute sense. A dev hell for 11 years, multiply that with the amount of people and studios on this project.
Building costs, marketing costs etc.

 

[RPCGamer]

Now, let's see if the folks who believed "Concord costs $400M" will also believe this

Even so, the point still stands. Its no surprise triple A is on it's arse when they throw so much around expecting a return based on nothing at all.

 

[lughnasadh123]

Is the new trend to throw out some bullshit megabomb budget number for clickbait?

 

[dragonyeuw]

Triple A: We can't risk making multiple smaller projects. It's too risky.
Also triple A: Let's put all our money into one giant project.

Exactly. Let's not spend 20 million on a new Rayman, not enough money in that. Let's instead spend 800 million on something that could sink the company if it fails.

Every single person at the top making these decisions should be fired.

 

[Wildebeest]

Ever had one of those dreams where you are running away from a car crash, but all your movements are like you are swimming through a tar pit?

 

[MMaRsu]

What do you guys think - will they reverse-race-swap the main character of Assassin's Creed Shadows?

No, why would they.

 

[Physiognomonics]

Exactly. Let's not spend 20 million on a new Rayman, not enough money in that. Let's instead spend 800 million on something that could sink the company if it fails.

Every single person at the top making these decisions should be fired.

Shit I would have bought a new Rayman after the last 2. Good and fun stuff.

 

[EDMIX]

This isn't true at all btw

It was really a budget of about $950 to 1 billion

 

[lmimmfn]

Triple A: We can't risk making multiple smaller projects. It's too risky.
Also triple A: Let's put all our money into one giant project.

Tripple A? Pffttt this is AAAA

 

[atyourservice]

A little higher than I would have guessed (if true), but yeah, projects that tend to run past their initial dev period and end up in dev hell tend to have inflated costs

 

[Hookshot]

Nearly $1 billion dollars to deliberately not do the pirate thing people were asking for? It's impressive in a very sad, depressing way

 

[Stu_Hart]

Bottom line is that ubisoft singapore needs to be shut down. They are incompetent. The working environment is horrible, and the execs over there are more interested in using the company $$$ for vacations and partying than making a good game. It has been documented. If the same people are working on the rumoured AC4 black flag remake, it gives me less hope that it will be good.

 

[lh032]

money laundering

 

[MMaRsu]

Exactly. Let's not spend 20 million on a new Rayman, not enough money in that. Let's instead spend 800 million on something that could sink the company if it fails.

Every single person at the top making these decisions should be fired.

Probably retarded Yves and his cronies.

He was always a fucking moron if you ask me

 

[Wildebeest]

We are certainly nearing the time when a youtuber pulls the big 1 billion number out of his ass for a game, backed by some "anonymous source".

 

[Bert Big Balls]

Jesus tapdancing Christ.

 

[Radical_3d]

So: Concord was a bargain!!!

 

[Kotaro]

They told us it was AAAAA so i think that meant at least 500 million dollar budget

 

[Roman Empire]

This is almost reaching the realm of AAAAA budget. How could Ubisoft fumble so hard when they already had the blueprint with AC Black Flag. The sheer incompetence.

 

[Tsaki]

If I remember correctly they got a big subsidy by the local government (Philippines was it?). That was the reason they didn't abandon it way earlier

 

[Gaiff]

They told us it was AAAAA so i think that meant at least 500 million dollar budget

You added another A.

 

[Mokus]

 

[diffusionx]

Now, let's see if the folks who believed "Concord costs $400M" will also believe this

Eleven years of development, major resources went into it, backed by management, in the hopes of making a live service gaashit that would make billions of dollars over the years. I could see it. The amount of cut content must be insane.

For some reason people on here think these companies are run by rational, studious, and measured accountants or something lol and every game costs $50 million. Get real.

 

[winjer]

I would love to see a post mortem documentary about this game. There must be a lot of wild and amazing stories about development.
And would even bet there are stories with coke and whores in the mix.

 

[Kotaro]

You added another A.

No I’m pretty sure that’s what they said

One A means one hundred million dollars

 

[Fake]

Money laundry.

 

[RCX]

How many Rayman Legends sequels could we have had in exchange for this shit sandwich?

 

[Gaiff]

No I’m pretty sure that’s what they said

One A means one hundred million dollars

Can’t argue with this rock-solid logic.

 

[Hookshot]

You added another A.

The extra A is for Awful.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

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.

www.thegamer.com

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

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?

 

[GoldenEye98]

This game was announced at E3 wasn't it? Always a red flag imo....

E3 was bad in that it created hype pressure on publishers to show something new even if was probably just thrown together.

For example I believe Metroid 4 was announced at the same E3(2017) as this game...

 

[M1chl]

Lmao, how much was for drugs tho which is Ubisoft smoking from that amount, that's the question