Summary
Every time I write aboutSkull And Bonesbeing on sale (and it’s been a lot) I note that considering the time it took to develop and the moneyUbisoftneeds to make back from it, it’s unlikely the game will be this cheap again until its creators finally cave and make it free-to-play. Less than a week ago, I let you all know thatthe live service pirate game was down to $14.99and I made that exact point about it being unlikely it’ll ever be available for less until it’s free. Turns out I was wrong again as right now, six days later, you can get it for $10.
Apologies to those of you who pulled the trigger when it was $14.99, and a big congratulations to those of you who held firm and can now pick up Skull And Bones for $10. To those of you waiting for it to get even cheaper, hey, more power to you. I’m not going to say this is the cheapest the game will be until it’s free this time because if I do, I know I’ll just be back in here in a week writing about Skull And Bones being down to $7.99 onAmazon.
There is a catch to Skull And Bones being $10 on Best Buy, but it won’t affect you as long as you’re reading this article on the day it was written. The massive price reduction is a one-day-only deal running until 1 am EST on Monday, August 12. After that, the game will return to full price, which is shockingly still $70. The deal applies to both thePS5andXbox Series X|Sversions of the game, just verify you’ve got the right platform selected before you add the game to your cart.
Skull and Bones
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Skull and Bones is a pirate-based action game from Ubisoft, with persistent open-world multiplayer. Set in the Indian Ocean, you must raise your reputation as a pirate, build and command ships, and loot to your heart’s content.
Skull And Bones ran into so many problems and delays during its decade-long development, it was somewhat surprising that the game ever managed to see the light of day. The video game landscape went through some huge shifts during that development time which meant by the time it launched just six months ago, the ask for people to pay $70 for a live service version of the sailing bits from Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag wasn’t a realistic one.
The trouble is, the amount of money that has been pumped into Skull & Bones, making it free-to-play wasn’t an option. While Ubisoft games often go on sale a few months after they’re released, I don’t recall ever seeing something as extreme as this. A $70 that’s only six months old available for $15 and then $10 in a single week. There’s no firm data on how many copies have been sold. All we know is that the game failed to amass a million players in its first month.
