Skull and Bones caused the collateral success of another game

Skull and bones It arrived in stores on February 16, and so far it looks like things aren’t too bad. At least since Ubisoft They didn’t appear in the media asking everyone to come play, nor did they express it by lowering their price. There remains the 70 dollars promised and unless you have a subscription to Ubisoft+ For the moment, digital costs have not changed too much.

The fact is that it seems that many of those who played had the idea that this Skull and bones It was originally born as downloadable content, a sort of expansion, of the mythical Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag

and in their desire to search for what they can’t seem to find in this new pirate development, they decided to come back with the original. One that truly captivated us over a decade ago.

Skull and Bones does magic

The fact is that the launch of Skull and bones seems to have had an immediate consequence in one of those games that marked many of us upon the arrival of the PS4 and Xbox One. Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag, which marked a before and after within the Ubisoft franchise because it was the first which, even if it did not add a maritime and naval component, put us in the open sea full of islands and territories to conquer. A Sandbox gigantic.

So perhaps to revive this scripted epic, with its story and playable meaning, many have decided to stop playing. Skull and bones

and its appearance MMO to return to the classic, to the success of the end of 2013. And as an example of this desire, you have below the graph which demonstrates this trend in recent days within Steam (patience if the games are not downloaded quickly).

This image was obtained from Steam Database and confirms that from the very day of the launch of Skull and bones, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag It tripled its player count, reaching some peaks above 3,000 concurrent players. Something very commendable if we take into account that this is a release from eleven years ago. so the Ubisoft

You have a clear signal of what people are asking you. players.

The story of Skull and Bones

One of the great handicaps of MMO which was taken from the magician Ubisoft Ha sido, precisely, that all the universe of the game is without a vertebral column that stands, as it must be a history, even though it is the experience and feeling of many hours in the high seas fighting or collecting all kinds of primary materials that we will visit you. On the contrary, in Skull and bones We’re entering a game that barely seems to have any plot coherence and that’s why many were disappointed.

Therefore, after not finding what they expected Skull and bones, many of these players decided on what they already knew and loved at the time. Wouldn’t you do the same thing?