i am still 100% comfortable not owning any ubisoft game.

Charging $70 for a game that looks and plays like a mobile game. Now THATS Piracy.

Note to Ubisoft: Wooden ships did not blow up and sink in seconds as if a 15" shell from the KMS Bismarck hit the magazine. Wooden ships took a long, hard time to sink...that's because wooden ships are made out of wood, and wood naturally floats.

Skull and Bones is exactly what we got .. they forgot the meat on that skeleton.

I love how in the CEO quote about Skull and Bones is that he mentions how much of a complete game it is like 4 times. Evidence enough that something's up

Take away the AAA graphics and it's a mobile game.

"If you resume your game at another time, your progress file is still there.That's not been deleted. You don't lose what you've built in the game or your engagement with the game." Driver: San Francisco says differently. Fuck Ubisoft, never buying another one of their games.

Ubisoft ought to start feeling comfortable with people not buying their shitty games.

It took them 11 years to give us "Black Flag at home"

The fact that black flag beats it in everything including graphics even though it’s a decade old and made by the same company shows the hilarious state of Ubisoft

Ubisoft thinking Shiver me timbers meant a woodcutting minigame

No boarding. No ship upgrade. No consequence of be a pirates. Walking it's atrocius. Ship have the speed of a bugatti veyron and the turn of a F-22 Raptor. Price it's 70 euro/dollar. Microtransaction in a 70 dollar/euro game. DID I MENTION THERE IS NO BOARDING IN A PIRATES GAME ??.

It’s functionally a cut down multiplayer version of a game they did better 11? Years ago. AAAA is probably only regarding the executive bonuses.

watching ubisoft stock lose 60% of its value over 5 years and it dropped 4% since skull and bones release. I can hear their investors ripping the executives out of their seats. Ubisoft an original french made company having its own revolution against its leaders....poetry

This game is wild. Imagine, if you will, the year is 2000. Your friend has just found this thing called Amazon, and wants to make a new business just like them. It seems like a good plan, your friend gets to work and stops talking about it. 10 years have passed. Amazon is now the global giant It is today. Your friend comes to you and excitedly shows you a terrible shopping site right out of 1999 and exclaims: "It's finally ready! My new site will take down Amazon!" Your friend is confused when you aren't excited for the "new" product. Ubisoft is your friend, and skull and bones is the "new" website.

The boating in Black Flag makes the rest of the game worth it. I used to just sail around playing sea shanties. Actually, I should play that game again.

Tbf we cant rly complain a game called skull and bones isn't fleshed out

Yes, you should definitely try Black Flag! Even if you don't end up liking it, you can at least make a video comparing the ship mechanics to skull and bones.

Skulls and bones is made for Investors not for gamers. MOBILE gaming at its finest. It feels like a chore playing Skulls and Bones

Using shitty flutes will never not be funny.

Sea music exists in Assassins Creed since Black Flag. They know how to do this, they just didn't want to.

This game just looks like "AC Black Flag" without the Assassins and Templars. Like they literally just reskinned AC:BF and released it as a "new" game. Edit: After watching, AC:BF is a better pirate game than this...

Games as a corporate cash cow. Just say no.

I am so glad I bought Helldivers 2 instead of this.

Ubisoft had the recipe for a potential world winning chocolate gateau but they released a plain jam sponge cake. Recipe: black flag, $120m and 11yrs for development, how can a company mess up so bad.

The fact Helldivers 2 is running circles around this game gives me more joy than anything else in the world.

This makes Starfield look like a AAAAA

I think Ubisoft should be sued for this monstrosity. They're clearly skimming investment funding or something because there's zero excuse for a game to be this bad after ELEVEN YEARS. I don't own any stock in Ubisoft but if I were a shareholder I'd be pissed right now. The sad part is that Ubisoft could probably make a Red Dead-like pirate game, but they want to cut as many corners as possible to make the maximum amount of money. They shouldn't be in business anymore. It's like a restaurant not bringing your food out for 3 hours, and when it gets there, it's missing all of the advertised sides, and the meat is undercooked. The drink you ordered is just someone else's unfinished glass, and the manager comes out and asks you to pay additional money for using their table for 2 hours more than they wanted you to.

This is like that one parent, who called your xbox a "gameboy", got promoted to direct a game. With a sprinkling of Ubisoft company policy to guide them on their novel career choice.

this game has got to be the most expensive advertisement for AC Black Flag

Honestly I am dumbfounded at how they went from Blackflag to this mess. They just had to take the bones of black flag. I mean climbing rigging, actual swashbuckling oh swimming and at least better resource collection. It's another case it feels the developers at Ubisoft havnt even played their own games.

This does feel like a phone game.

I am convinced that nobody can make a good pirate game anymore. The Disney POTC game was about it.

I played AC Origins. Amazing game on it's own, the only AC I personally enjoyed. Lots of detail, amazing work from the modelling and animation departments. That being said, the game contained an in game cheat engine on launch - The Animus Control Panel. It let you change your player character, change in-game physics, combat, health values and so on. Guess what they did? They changed their launcher from Uplay to UbiConnect. The Animus Control panel stopped working completely. So, did they bother fixing it? Nope. Putting something else in place of it? Nope. At least removing the in-game tips that tell you to use it every time you get a loading screen? Also no. Origins launched in 2018. UbiConnect launched in 2020. 2 years. They couldn't bother to mantain an in-game feature dependant on a launcher for more than two years. They couldn't bother to add a single button and shuffle some files around to fix it either. How do you trust them to not do the same with anything else they release nowadays?

Sid Meier's Pirates on the NES was a better pirate sim than Skull and Bones, and it wasn't even a $70 live service AAAA game!

14:33, no that is stolen from AC Black flag. you should really play that now mate.

The “auto harvest” setting is intended to make the game more ‘accessible’, much like games now commonly offer settings for colourblind players, and so on. But sure, some folks that don’t need to depend upon it will still make use of it.

Oh hells, even Odessey did it better. Swimming, Harvesting, Going on shore, Exploring, Ship Boarding Combat. And how did they even fk it up so bad???? All they had to do was tune up Black Flag for more Pirate theme!!! They had a winning formula n they fkd it up so bad!

I don't normally write comments, but I wanted to say and clarify that the 800 gold price is for the whole outfit NOT one piece. I should know, I bought it. Spent 5 bucks and bought it together with free gold given. This is simply an FYI for anyone else.

So it’s watered down Black Flag. How the hell do you even make that happen. Oh wait.

I LOVE that you used the Druid face from The Mystery of the Druids in the thumbnail. It works so well.

Pretty bad when the first Quadruple A game has less features than Sid Meyers Pirates Live the Life from the 90s.

I've had more "pirate-ship" style fun playing the first Rebel Galaxy.

Its insane Ubisoft made Black Flag, which was a pretty decent pirate game, admittedly it had its flaws but it was fun, and now they are producing such slop of a game. It makes you wander if they wanted a new pirate game why not just iterate upon the core concepts of ACBF that everyone liked instead of making this mess.

I was learning guitar playing RockSmith on Xbox. Spent a few hundred dollars on tracks I liked and was progressing quite nicely. I sold my Xbox and moved to another city. Less than two years later I bought a new Xbox and when I logged into my old account all the content I purchased was gone with no way to get it back. All those great songs were replaced by shitty tracks that I have no interest in playing--but even those tracks are locked behind a subscription service. No refund of course. I now hate UbiSoft. I understand why there is such a huge push behind retro gaming. Hell, even I just bought a GameCube yesterday. The shit is expensive now but once you have it, you have it until something physically breaks. So sick of the corporate grifts. Skull and Bones looks like rubbish and UniSoft can stick its microtransactions up its ass.

This looks like a free to play game. I would be mad if I paid money for this.

I mean I'm literally hearing about this game for the first time, right now, from Yamiks.

Suicide Squad: "We are worst game of 2024" Skull and Bones: "Hold my rum"

The difference between buying digital music or videos and buying digital games is that the music and video files are self contained. You can copy and transfer them and any device or app that can decode them can play them back. You actually own these digital files. That's not true of most digital games from anyone other than GOG. It's especially true of any "Always Online" game that needs a server supported by the devs or publishers.

I can't get over how bad those water graphics are

Its literally a mobile game. A few years ago when i first saw the trailer i was so excited. But the last 2 years the more ive seen, the more ive been disappointed. I will never waste money on a mobile game thats 70 dollars and wastes space on an SSD. As someone who sails IRL, i can confirm that both the physics and historical inaccuracy are laughable. Rockstar should make a pirate game

As I've been saying the Pirates of the Caribbean game from 2003 has more actual gameplay then this

It's remarkable that Yves Guillemot isn't widely seen as worse than Bobby Kottick, if not just as bad. Seriously, when you crawl through Ubisoft's history of misdeeds, he almost makes Kottick look civilized. Look up Serge Hascoet and buckle up just for a little taste of the Ubisoft horror show.

2:02 horrifying water effects there :s

this is exactly the type of development that needs the Yamiks' treatment. consumers who choose this over sea of thieves or black flag get exactly what they got. (technically sid meyers is better but the others i mention are better than old siddy)

"These are no longer fucking microtransactions." your right, they are macrotransactions.

I stopped buying Ubisoft games the day they required uPlay (yes, even with the stripped down Steam uPlay libraries). Not surprisingly, there really hasn't been any Ubi games since then that make me regret my decision.

Geez, that microtransation price is getting to the level of World of Warships, but at least they occasionally sprinkle in rewards so you dont NEED to buy things.

The only plundering going on here is Ubisoft somehow charging $70 for this mess

Ubisoft had one fucking job... Make a pirate game, and all they did was make a boat simulator.

I hate to be " that guy" but I need to correct you. It's not freedom paper, its called independent democratic super credits. I would appreciate a full edit of the video addressing this. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

the fact that the game is barely a week old and already has one of these is amazing

I feel like Rayman 2: the Great Escape was probably the best Ubisoft game I played in a while.

Hats off to the talented crew that made Black Flag. It's a shame execs get rid of their best talent after they prove their worth. That Talent should be worth more than those executives. Big companies fire the wrong people. And now we see the results. Just look at Rocksteady. And it's hilarious they don't make new IPs. They're scared of their own shadows.

Maximum profit from minimum effort. Ubisoft creed

Turning timing needs off is actually an accessibility feature for those who struggle with it for a variety of reasons & disabilities.

This zombie project should have been cancelled several times. Must have been nepotism keeping it alive. Something went very wrong to bring this thing to release.

I think that's a good point that you should have dug into more. Especially with skull and bones charging on average $8 for a single piece of clothing while only allowing you to purchase currency in increments of 5 that START at less than the cost of a single piece of clothing. This has FAR surpassed what counts as a microtransaction, "microtransactions" used to be bundle purchases with an average maximum price being $15, and you would usually be getting a lot for that $15, often times it would be a bundle of 3-5 entirely new maps, with skins costing less than a dollar to an average max of $5. The prices aren't even in the same ballpark anymore, and calling what we have now "microtransactions" is just disingenuous, and does nothing but benefit the company doing it by normalizing $60 purchases as "micro". That's not even to mention the fact that over the years the amount and quality of the items you get per-purchase has been steadily decreasing, so now even when you fork out the $60 you only get ONE outfit. If I spent $60 ten years ago, I would have bought out most in-game stores, now I'd need a second job if I wanted to actually purchase all the items in a store (not that I would want to normally). I miss unlocking items in free progression systems, bring back Reach.

A mobile pirate game called "Tempest" has an actual ship boarding mechanic where you actually go on the other ship and fight the crew. A fucking mobile pirate game is better than this garbage

I like this game's sub-Reddit, it's a huge echo chamber, filled with buyers' remorse. Tears all over the place, people swearing this game is an amazing work of art :))

What baffles me is that they literally had a blueprint for how to make a good pirate game. How hard would it have been to take the pieces of Black Flag that people loved and just trim out the assassins angle?

They literally could've directly asset flipped the Naval from black flag, removed everything related to assassins creed, touched up the character combat, and made an "open world" single player naval game about hauling and stealing cargo in the Caribbean and it would've sold gang busters. Instead they wasted tens of millions of dollars making and marketing a "AAAA" game that just turned out to be a $70 mobile game with micro transitions.

I feel more and more comfortable with NOT OWNING UBISOFT games with each year. Back in the PS2 days they made dozens of top tier games but in the last decade their games are so bad I don't even bother pirating them. They literally resorted to giving the games away themselves for free on PC and they're still not worth your time (except for Rayman). Playing Watch Dogs reminds me of the True Crime games with their buggy, offbrand GTA veneer and the Assassins Creed games are just the PS2 Prince of Persia games but with lobotomized platforming sections. But the thing that made me really give up on them as a company was when they gave away The Crew and I finally played it. I was simultaneously amused, impressed and depressed by the fact that they managed to shoehorn their tower climbing formula into this car game where you can't exit your vehicle.

I'm so comfortable not owning this specific game, thanks.

As a Sailor, when we had the Beta. I laughed so much that the steering handles more than a car, and less like a "golden age of sail"-ship. Maybe on a luxury yacht or modern sailing ships, the rudder is fast. But on a ship from 1892 for example, in a calm water situation theres a 3-5 second delay between steering and actual turning. But in Skull and Bones, you steer and you turn. It was terrible to look at, and i like my First Person sailing experience. SoT-has more better sailing features than this garbage. Not to mention the torpedoes, armor on ships, flamethrowers... And where ELSE would you store your cargo on the ship? the cargo hull? nah, we store it on the side for it to be exposed to everyone. Skulls and Bones is the perfect "game pass, lazy afternoon" game. Not a AAAA game for 70 or more euros/dollars. Its absolute garbage that SEADOGS from 24 years ago could surpass. Ubisoft has to get used to people not buying their shit. This was an obvious money wash from their studio to show a game to the Singapore goverment that the money they gave them the money for. A "BRUH" moment. Support an ACTUAL good game being developed. Theres AHOY. Check it out. Now thats a sailing game.

"It will deliver in the long run!" "It's a AAAA game!" Things no confident developer of a competent game ever said.

What I’m gathering from this is that “quadruple A game” means that it’s a triple A game that’s so bad they don’t even wanna call it that, but are gonna charge you more money for. Cool and awesome

The 10 currencies needed is damn moronic...

I havent watched a Yamiks video since the shitpost planetside 2 pro guides, and that was close to a decade ago! How funny that the algorithm decided to throw me this little gem of a review out of the blue. It's like reuniting with an old friend, because the Yamiks charm is even better than what I remember from way back then

How did they nail the feel of being a pirate so well in Black Flag (in my opinion at least) but when they release a game literally FOCUSED on being a pirate, it has NOTHING other than sailing?

Skull and Bones was originally supposed to be a Black Flag online DLC. Because of funding and no market need it's development was passed around the Ubisoft studios of the world, this game has been in development for OVER a decade. Eventually because it's essentially a "Chicken stock" of Black Flag, It released and it simply sucks and fails to deliver anywhere near the same experience. Steam knows that the failure of this game would create ANOTHER need for a truly great pirate game and so they placed Black Flag and ALL OF IT'S DLC on sale (Still is as of today) for £8. If online isn't something necessary for you, just play the base game again.

Helldivers 2 is so seamless you even fly across the planet you are currently above. This is the type of loading transitions this generation should be providing. With all games. I can’t believe we still have black loading screens in 2024 🤦‍♂️

"Gamers need to get used to not owning their own shit, like music, video, and movies"... Yeah? I have MP3's that I purchased. I can literally listen to them in my vehicle, while miles and miles outside of cell service. Hell, I can leave my phone at home, and my music still works. I refuse to 'bend' to this, if I can't own it, I won't spend money on it.

Ubishite doing a "You will own nothing and be happy" XD

The game is obviously about pirates. Even before we buy the game, we can see pirates happily plundering your wallet for 70$. Next you can see that the game includes a lot of gameplay about pirates like getting plundered in the cash shop, or playing for hours to be plundered from your free time. Trurly, a true piracy experience

Ubisoft should become comfortable with being the laughing stock of the industry.

Been a Ubisoft hater for years and used to feel bad about it. No longer

Question: Why does a ship needs stamina? Is the ship running and if so, at what surface is running from?

I don't think I've ever heard the "10 years is enough" argument, but if someone actually ever tried to present that as a valid point, they should consider this: 2014 was 10 years ago. Can you imagine losing games from that era or earlier?

Maybe over the course of the year they'll patch and update the game to flesh it out and make it better. *this is the point where we all throw our heads back and laugh*

Agreed. Eff them with a glowing firepoker for adding macrotransactions to a full-priced, watered-down Black Flag.

Well to be fair, the devs (for whom the development was a nightmare) are not that much as fault as the corporate greed and incompentency of the leaders of Ubisoft that never knew what they wanted (so the direction of the game changed multiples times and the guy in charge 3-4 times) and because they had poured too much money in it, no one wanted to be the guy that ended the madness. So o7 for the devs and fuck corporate Ubisoft

The levels of incompetence needed for Ubisuck to take a formula they made 10+ years ago and completely fuck it up is outstanding, for them to call it a "AAAA" game is sheer arrogance. To be a consumer and like it is to have less than no standards, and to defend it all is to be brain dead. The gaming industry is getting what it fucking deserves.

Its honestly so sad, cuz i really loved ubisoft. Assassins creed(2, brotherhood and black flag), far cry, watchdogs, prince of persia and splinter cell are all some of my favorite game series of all time. But theyve been fumbling so hard in the last decade. Prince of persia lost crown was a pleasant surprise, but outside of that, theyve had barely any good games in the last 10 years.. its been in the cards for a while now, but this feels like the nail in the coffin.

I cannot remember how i got my hands on black flag years ago, but the whole skull and bones fiasco reminded me to try it out again. I'd say give it a try as well! If for no other reason then to swing from your ship to the enemies. That alone will give you far more fun then this game will I imagine.

Yamiks: "Demand better!" We do but they understand only french...🥖🥖

Ah, my angry Latvian friend. I'm a bit ashamed to admit that I don't watch your content nearly often enough (life, y'know?). But you always produce really good Fail videos, and those I cannot ignore. :) Keep it up mate, cheers from straya Edit: Fuck Ubisoft and Yves Guillemot and the shitty old busted-arse pirate ship they rode in on. I haven't purchased a single Ubi game in the last decade. Why subject myself to that?

We've really reached the point in games development where the big companies are almost completely incapable of providing good games anymore. I see nothing that would justify spending $40 here. Why should I even think about spending $70 for a game the vendor itself already says I shouldn't feel comfortable owning. It's all just greed and comittee-written checklists to fulfil and zero creativity.

Love seeing Ross’s points about games as a service being promoted so much recently

that quote at the beginning... gave me YUGH spaghetti bowl flashbacks...