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Ubisoft’s second $70 sport, Skull and Bones, has seen its worth diminished considerably lower than three weeks after its launch.
Following a troubled growth that noticed the sport delayed on a number of occasions and rebooted in 2020, Cranium and Bones was lastly launched on February 16, priced $69.99 / £69.99.
But it surely hasn’t taken lengthy for retailers to slash its worth, with Best Buy at present providing the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S variations for $44.99, and UK retailer Hit pricing them at £49.85.
Throughout an earnings name the week earlier than its launch, Ubisoft was requested why it had chosen to cost $70 for Cranium and Bones and probably restrict the scale of its participant base, regardless of its live service leanings.
In response, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot asserted that Cranium and Bones deserved to be a full-price game because of its scale.
“You will note that Cranium and Bones is a fully-fledged sport,” he mentioned. “It’s a really huge sport, and we really feel that folks will actually see how huge and full that sport is. It’s a very full, triple… quadruple-A sport, that may ship in the long term.”
Ubisoft launched Cranium and Bones alongside a free eight-hour trial, which is obtainable on all platforms and lets gamers carry over their progress to the complete sport ought to they select to buy it.
Whereas Cranium and Bones was initially deliberate to be Ubisoft’s first $70 game, its delays meant the writer’s first sport to be launched on the elevated worth level was final December’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.
It was additionally closely discounted rapidly, with its worth falling to $49.99 / £43.85 within two weeks of its release.
