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Skull and Bones’ price has been slashed by $25 after less than three weeks
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It's been in development hell for like 11 years so people had low expectations, and it ended up being reasonably accurate.
It's just Black Flag, except notably worse and multiplayer. It was also on the expensive side @ $70, and someone at Ubisoft defended the price increase by calling it "the worlds first AAAA game." which was just stupid.
As someone that very much does not enjoy Sea Of Thieves I was kinda hoping it would scratch my pirate game itch, but nah I'll just replay Black Flag lol.
Digital Foundry also pointed out that Black Flag looks better on PC today than this new game. In particular the water, which seems like a big deal.
Not like there's a lot of water in a pirate game...
Wow. I've never heard anyone use "AAA" as a measure of value before. Maybe as a stand-in for "polish," but that hasn't even been true in ages; and even still, polish makes a game more pleasant, but you have to have a good game first.
No kidding. He really thought he had something there, didn't he? Probably thought it up in the shower and everything.
It means AAAAA WE SPENT SO MUCH MONEY HOLY SHIT THIS BETTER SELL
It was originally basically a shorthand for budget. A list actors, A list director, a list studio = a AAA movie. I think? All of those things cost money, so...
I don't think he was aware of that, to be clear, because even if he was it's still an idiotic response. The game doesn't show that it had that kind of budget at all.
And nobody uses it for that in the gaming industry these days anyway. It's just "AAA = Big studio." Or honestly at this point "big marketing budget."
Thanks for the rundown! Yeah, I really want to love Sea of Thieves and it scratches that itch sometimes, but when my ship gets raided by other players like 20 times during a session, I gotta turn it off. I know a lot of that is “git gud” but I just wanna cruise in my sloop, dammit!
Yeah, that's always been one of my issues with Sea Of Thieves. I'm just tryna dig up treasure and fight some skeletons, man. I don't need Chadbeard boarding my ship and spawn camping me and my homies.
The spawn camping is the worst. My ship is sunk, I respawn, and I’m immediately trying to escape them again. 😭
I used to have the same issue in GTA V online. The game will spawn you really close to where you died. So if your killer is nearby, they can watch for your dot to reappear on the map and immediately go kill you over and over again.
I think they're either releasing soon or just released an update that allows for private sessions.