This is what it seems to have cost to develop Skull And Bones: a lot or a little?

Skull and Bones has been delayed six times since it was first announced at E3 2017. This February 2024 is supposed to be the one.

The long development of Skull And Bones, which started in 2013, when it was originally a multiplayer expansion of Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, has caused production costs to skyrocket. And to avoid that, no one can withstand over 10 years of development.

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A couple of years ago, Kotaku reported that development costs had reached the staggering amount of 120 million dollars. Now, and according to Insider Gaming, in just three years, Ubisoft has spent another 80 million dollars on development.

According to sources consulted by Insider Gaming, Ubisoft does not expect to make a profit with Skull and Bones, and blames its troubled development on “power-hungry executives” and constant direction changes. The reason it is still ongoing is supposedly an agreement with the Singaporean government.

Story of a game that should have been released 5 years ago

Skull and Bones has been delayed six times since it was first announced at E3 2017. Supposedly, the game that was shown back then barely existed (despite being scheduled for release in 2018) and was subsequently reworked, becoming an online survival pirate game.

It was inevitably delayed to the fiscal year 2019/2020, and it was showcased more at E3 2018. However, Kotaku reported that the versions we saw at both E3 events were scrapped, leading to further delays.

It skipped E3 2019 and was delayed to 2022, preparing for release on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. But as we know, that didn’t happen. It was delayed again, this time to March 9, 2023, after a technical test in September went wrong. But that date passed and it was delayed again.

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If everything goes according to plan this time, Skull and Bones should be here next month, after more than a decade of development and a total cost of about 200 million dollars.

Author: Chema Carvajal Sarabia

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