There is a lot of talk about Beyond Good & Evil 2 when it comes to talking about games that never arrive from Ubisoft, but that does not mean that it is the only one who runs this fate, since since 2017, the year of its announcement, Skull & Bones has been the eternal promise that never seems to come, since the title has not stopped having one problem after another in its development.
From restarts to firings for harassment, It cannot be said that the progress of this Ubisoft Singapore title is going on the right foot, especially if we take into account that there have been few times that he has been absent from events of the gala company, the most recent case being that of E3 2021. At this point anyone would say that the title should be canceled, but it does not finish arriving. Now we know the reason.
Toxic environment and ego struggle in development
According to Kotaku, and even though Ubisoft stated that development was going well, the title would bear in development 8 years and would have a current cost of 120 million dollars, which is undoubtedly a great expense when you consider the large number of copies that you would have to sell to end up being profitable.
Likewise, the Anglo-Saxon medium has been able to speak with both project developers and former workers of the same, all giving very similar statements to each other. Has stood out chaos and lack of a clear vision in development, to the point that Skull & Bones has not only changed its geographical location several times, but also its style of play, either as a naval combat game, then as a survival game, among others.
Also, among these statements a reason is given to justify that it has not been canceled, being so that a member of the development team stated that the reason was not admit the mistake they had made. This same worker has even commented that if the game was from another company, they would have already canceled it 10 times. It should be noted that the problem of this chaotic development would also come from the struggle of egos on the part of the management team.
Be that as it may, in the face of any type of accusation, Ubisoft defends that these statements are to demoralize the team and that development is going well, something that is hard to believe if we consider that a new restart could have occurred a few months ago. For the rest, the game will theoretically arrive in the year 2023 if there are no more mishaps.