Ubisoft CEO defends Skull and Bones’ $70 price despite its live service leanings, calls it ‘quadruple-A’

Ubisoft co-founder and CEO Yves Guillemot has defended the $70 price tag for Skull and Bones, calling it a “quadruple-A sport”.

All through a Q&A session as part of a conference title discussing Ubisoft’s Q3 product sales for its fiscal 12 months 2024, one caller recognized that Skull and Bones now appears to be taking a further reside service methodology – the game’s Year 1 roadmap was simply currently printed, as an example.

The caller requested why Ubisoft was insisting on charging $70 for the game and doubtlessly limiting the scale of its participant base, suggesting a free-to-play model might greater go properly with the reside service mechanics and offers it a higher chance of establishing a neighborhood.

Guillemot replied with an assertion that Skull and Bones deserves to be a full-price sport resulting from its scale.

“You’ll discover that Skull and Bones is a fully-fledged sport,” he replied.

“It’s a very large sport, and we actually really feel that people will truly see how big and full that sport is. It’s a extraordinarily full, triple… quadruple-A sport, which will ship in the long run.”

Following a troubled growth that noticed the sport delayed on a number of occasions and rebooted in 2020, Skull & Bones will be finally released on February 16, 2024 priced $69.99.

Avid gamers can have the flexibility to play the game three days early within the occasion that they pre-order the $99.99 Premium model, which includes two additional missions, magnificence objects and a Smuggler Cross token to unlock the premium battle transfer.