Ubisoft has delayed Skull & Bones yet again

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The publisher announced the delay on Tuesday as part of its latest earnings results, confirming that the game is now scheduled for release during its next fiscal year beginning in April 2022.

“We strongly believe in the team’s creative vision and they have been given an increasingly ambitious mandate for the game,” he said. “Production led by [Ubisoft] Singapore has been advancing well over the past 12 months and the promise is better than ever. The additional time will allow the team to fully deliver on its vision.”

CEO Yves Guillemot also said: “The Singapore studio has been developing for a long time a big part of the Assassin’s Creed franchise so it’s a really good studio.

“What we have been doing to make sure they could really come strongly with Skull & Bones is we increased the associate studios that are working with them at the moment so there’s a good and big team now working on the game and the last 12 months have really been good in terms of the way things were coming along, so we are confident they can really bring something really exceptional for the market.”

Duguet added: “Singapore developed unique experience in naval combat contributing to Assassin’s Creed 4 Black Flag.”

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According to VGC’s development sources, the decision was made to move Skull & Bones away from the premium boxed model of Ubisoft’s other open-world titles towards a ‘live’ game model.

VGC was told the title will now feature a persistent game world with quests, characters and storylines that will drastically evolve and change over time based on the collective actions of the community.

This is unlike games as a service titles such as The Division 2, which receive regular updates, but have relatively static worlds, stories and content.

One person with knowledge of its development said that the social and “live storytelling” elements of Epic‘s Fortnite had been a strong inspiration for Skull & Bones’ new direction.

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