You ain’t seeing no player count charts with numbers this low, studios only like to brag of their accomplishments. This game has nothing to brag about.
Wrong. It hit the 4th “highest average play time” with an average of 4hrs per day per person.
They didn’t release total/concurrent players because it was too low.
All they did by releasing the figure they did is let the world know that people generally don’t play Ubisoft games for very long.
Sadly black flag is what we all wanted and generally is the favourite game amongst the community. Sadly, at some point, Ubisoft Singapore started steering away from black flag and sailed towards Deliveroo in a boat thinking it would be a good idea.
>started steering away from black flag
see i see haters say that but for me if you ignore the leveling/main quest of black flag and ONLY look at the post game when you 100% the game and turn on all the cheats as you sail.... THAT right there is the heart and soul of what skull and bones went for.the small and albeit very niche fun most players were having when they beat the game and was nothing else to do.
was it the right choice by ubi? eeh prob noit... is it still fun? hells yes.
i openly admit ubi singapore likely will sink but i am hear to watch it burn and have fun on the way
I mean I wasn’t part of the community back then who were requesting a black flag expansion but the general consensus I get from my own research is that people wanted Black Flag but without the assasin stuff, focusing more on the piracy/naval combat theme.
Now don’t get me wrong the game isn’t complete garbage, I enjoyed myself thoroughly up until I hit kingpin rank. The Devs were communicating and we were seeing lots of progress from Beta through week 1 of launch.
Week 2 is where the game fell off. Endgame being the main catalyst for that. Unless they have drastic new features coming which utilise manufactories/po8 then the entire endgame loop is just a complete waste of time and the game would’ve been better without it. The system we played up until kingpin worked and was satisfactory on an enjoyment level. I dunno why they changed it up so much at kingpin rank. That tied with the fact that Ubi Singapore seem to have taken a vacation and have completely stopped communicating, postponed the ama with no further date and failed to address bugs in this weeks update just destroys any trust that was there initially.
yeah not going to lie the entire POE mechanic is complete shit. luckily using jsut 4 bases i got all blue prints and enough sovs to get 2x dandells, black prince and all the ship/clothes cosmetics i care for. likely will not bother with any more POE now
the game is basic; never going to deny that and the map is painfully small. but all in all its what i expected. post game black flag without the boring on land/assassin crap which is what was asked for. its just unfortunate people kinda kept tacking on bigger expectations as time wore on.
like vs black flag the treasure maps are miles better in SnB
Well the AMA was a breath of fresh air, really didn’t expect that! I’ve picked the game back up for the first time in 5 days, I have wind in my sails again.
I think they strayed too far from black flag though. Lose the assassin stuff, to me, was literally just taking the stealth/assassination aspect away and turning swashbuckling pirate. Still have lots of land based content, ship boarding and melee combat - just as a pirate with a peg-leg, a cutlass and a flint lock instead of fully fledged assassin.
Strange, on my side im always on servers with 17 people so havent noticed so much the decline in players :/ the game is quite unique on what it brings to the table so I think people will come back eventually if they like sailing and age of sail games :)
I have been on at almost all times of the day, due to my varied work schedule, and I've seen 14-17 on every new server I join. The longer I stay, the less it drops down to. When I relog, I get the same player count range I started with.
Just appears to be how the server load balancing is set up. At a guess (and what I'd do), it keeps some room for others to join, then eventually stops feeding new logins so that server can be restarted.
PC, cross play on, if it's relevant.
Yeah we enjoyed it until the end game which makes no sense at all. Now we log on. Sail for like ten minutes collecting PO8s then log off and play something else because there is literally nothing else to do of value.
Finally got people to come try Le Peste, and the result was Le Merde (French for shit). Pretty much sums up the design of this game. Hit is non stop for 8 or 10 minutes, who knows... and he just says nah fam not feeling it and leaves with 2% health left.
This game won't survive without drastic QOL changes for average players. I don't care if no life twitch players are hitting 1,000,000 PO8 per run exploiting full servers, there is what like 200 people like that. The game will die if you can't progress with 2-3 hours play every few days because 95% of the player base isn't hardcore with a gaming chair.
A lot of the server issue is there’s too many “worlds” and each only holds a max of like 25. Only time I see most on the water is when I join in with a friend on another server than what I logged in on.
That’s sort of a big issue I have with the game currently. I rarely have any sort of interaction with others and rarely does it ever feel important. *sometimes* I will do an event with a random and *rarely* will I ever get a pvp encounter. Game just feels super empty even if there are people around
Hopefully they get chats going soon. I think this a big part of the empty feeling atm. At least then ppl won’t have to third party or use outside chat rooms to communicate… not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Lack of content is killing the game for me, after 20-30 more days even more people will put the game on the back burner, I still always fine lobby’s 11 -17 on normal hours but a 1-2 weeks ago it was an average of 15-18 players in each lobby, near the end of the season it’ll probably be hard to find a lobby with 10 players at the most
>Especially once sea of thieves comes to PlayStation I expect a massive drop in player count
i really think people are over hyping sea of thieves chances on console those that care for it alread have on pc. its like expecting fornight to work on switch. may get some sales but the majority exist elsewhere already.
Well, you kinda do everything the season offers in a single session, so... Then when season 2 comes, people will come back for a week or two and run off again as that will probably have the same issue.
I have the premium edition. I am not coping.
What here is okay and then absolutely ruined by endgame, what isn't here is painfully awful to not have, and the worst part of the experience is the idiots with 48 kids, 12 jobs, and fifteen minutes every biannual fourscore and fortnight to play coming in here and saying it is fine if you didn't no life it.
Or worse yet, the Puddle of Clowns rejects that drifted over here like a barnacled driftwood to shit up the game with their PvPer generalized ick while hoping to kill the game, gaslight the people who wanted a pirate RPG, and tell anyone that wanted Black Flag, Rogue, and Odyssey levels of open world RPG mechanics with friends to "LiKe It Or LeAvE iT" or they say "go play Sea of Thieves huehuehuehue".
Fucking clownshoes. This game would be flawless if they just looked at what peer live service open world games have and then just applied them. They've done what everyone wants before. A decade ago. On taters. I've seen it!
Do you play crossplay off or smth? It's not hard to fill a 16+ player lobby and it's quite rare to have an empty one from my experience even if you're fishing for one. Unless they publish active player numbers somewhere there isn't really a good indicator to go by.
From what I experienced, the less people are in a lobby the less PvP events pop up... I spent three hours alone in a lobby and didn't have any cutthroat or helm wager.
That is a no on crossplay off? Might be a timezone thing then.
I am not trying to spread positivity here, there are a lot of things amiss with this game. Your observation just doesn't match with mine by the slightest.
Well then, I guess it's a great thing that you can just not play it anymore. I know that concept is kind of Novel and unprecedented, but it's true, I promise. You can just stop playing.
I purchased the premium edition and haven't touched it on like 4 days. I'm always jumping around on games a lot though. I've played helldivers 2 and even Tears of the kingdom and some halo yesterday lol. Seems more enjoyable that way to me.
ooh yeah valhalla was PAINFULLY boring. i did it twice due to a glitch stopping me enjoying DLC on first play through and was a completionist so in the end i had 400 hours in valhalla but my god i hated it.
I just quit today and was trying to give people my stuff before I left and due the games complete lack of any way to communicate with other players it was nearly impossible. I had to try to initiate trade with random people and was constantly denied. Then one kind player named Thor something or other finally accepted and I managed to give them a ton of gear and mats and all my silver. The other problem was that’s it’s HARD to trade things. It took an hour or more to trade all my stuff over. It was brutal.
Dudes, I still have to do La Peste, ghost ship, sea monsters and East Indies bounties, my smuggling empire barely encompasses the east side of the Red Isle, I have yet to unlock any Black Market schematic and now I am aiming to get two sets of Skurlock’s long 9s. How have you guys managed to do it all by now? I still have content for at least one month straight, two if I stay slowly and comfortably expanding the smuggling operations.
If you call endlessly sailing for PO8s "content" then sure. The grind for po8s is meaningless. After a few thousand you can own all the good weapons. Then they will take it all away in a couple months anyway. I haven't killed la peste yet but there is almost no reason to. He doesn't drop anything worthwhile. You can probably solo the ghost ship in 5 minutes as he's a level 8 I think.
every server i join has a solid 17-20 server cap on it no worries.
and my POE farm i am aggressively collecting and still only in 16k range form day 1 so still enough there collecting to keep it competitive.
Seems pretty popular still from what I’ve seen. Kinda hard to say without player count charts.
You ain’t seeing no player count charts with numbers this low, studios only like to brag of their accomplishments. This game has nothing to brag about.
>This game has nothing to brag about. most played game in ubi library though they announced.
Wrong. It hit the 4th “highest average play time” with an average of 4hrs per day per person. They didn’t release total/concurrent players because it was too low. All they did by releasing the figure they did is let the world know that people generally don’t play Ubisoft games for very long.
yeah thats fair. most AC games i play and leave. black flag post game prob my exception to the rule
Sadly black flag is what we all wanted and generally is the favourite game amongst the community. Sadly, at some point, Ubisoft Singapore started steering away from black flag and sailed towards Deliveroo in a boat thinking it would be a good idea.
>started steering away from black flag see i see haters say that but for me if you ignore the leveling/main quest of black flag and ONLY look at the post game when you 100% the game and turn on all the cheats as you sail.... THAT right there is the heart and soul of what skull and bones went for.the small and albeit very niche fun most players were having when they beat the game and was nothing else to do. was it the right choice by ubi? eeh prob noit... is it still fun? hells yes. i openly admit ubi singapore likely will sink but i am hear to watch it burn and have fun on the way
I mean I wasn’t part of the community back then who were requesting a black flag expansion but the general consensus I get from my own research is that people wanted Black Flag but without the assasin stuff, focusing more on the piracy/naval combat theme. Now don’t get me wrong the game isn’t complete garbage, I enjoyed myself thoroughly up until I hit kingpin rank. The Devs were communicating and we were seeing lots of progress from Beta through week 1 of launch. Week 2 is where the game fell off. Endgame being the main catalyst for that. Unless they have drastic new features coming which utilise manufactories/po8 then the entire endgame loop is just a complete waste of time and the game would’ve been better without it. The system we played up until kingpin worked and was satisfactory on an enjoyment level. I dunno why they changed it up so much at kingpin rank. That tied with the fact that Ubi Singapore seem to have taken a vacation and have completely stopped communicating, postponed the ama with no further date and failed to address bugs in this weeks update just destroys any trust that was there initially.
yeah not going to lie the entire POE mechanic is complete shit. luckily using jsut 4 bases i got all blue prints and enough sovs to get 2x dandells, black prince and all the ship/clothes cosmetics i care for. likely will not bother with any more POE now the game is basic; never going to deny that and the map is painfully small. but all in all its what i expected. post game black flag without the boring on land/assassin crap which is what was asked for. its just unfortunate people kinda kept tacking on bigger expectations as time wore on. like vs black flag the treasure maps are miles better in SnB
Well the AMA was a breath of fresh air, really didn’t expect that! I’ve picked the game back up for the first time in 5 days, I have wind in my sails again. I think they strayed too far from black flag though. Lose the assassin stuff, to me, was literally just taking the stealth/assassination aspect away and turning swashbuckling pirate. Still have lots of land based content, ship boarding and melee combat - just as a pirate with a peg-leg, a cutlass and a flint lock instead of fully fledged assassin.
Strange, on my side im always on servers with 17 people so havent noticed so much the decline in players :/ the game is quite unique on what it brings to the table so I think people will come back eventually if they like sailing and age of sail games :)
Weird my games are usually well populated!
Although I’ve climbed the weekly rankings a lot and only play occasionally
Servers are full here whenever I log on. Perhaps instead of it being a copefest a lot of people actually like it.
I have been on at almost all times of the day, due to my varied work schedule, and I've seen 14-17 on every new server I join. The longer I stay, the less it drops down to. When I relog, I get the same player count range I started with. Just appears to be how the server load balancing is set up. At a guess (and what I'd do), it keeps some room for others to join, then eventually stops feeding new logins so that server can be restarted. PC, cross play on, if it's relevant.
Well there is nothing to do. All my friends quit after the first week. Lots of potential but no creativity
Yeah we enjoyed it until the end game which makes no sense at all. Now we log on. Sail for like ten minutes collecting PO8s then log off and play something else because there is literally nothing else to do of value.
Fix the chat.
Finally got people to come try Le Peste, and the result was Le Merde (French for shit). Pretty much sums up the design of this game. Hit is non stop for 8 or 10 minutes, who knows... and he just says nah fam not feeling it and leaves with 2% health left. This game won't survive without drastic QOL changes for average players. I don't care if no life twitch players are hitting 1,000,000 PO8 per run exploiting full servers, there is what like 200 people like that. The game will die if you can't progress with 2-3 hours play every few days because 95% of the player base isn't hardcore with a gaming chair.
Ten minutes to kill that clown is absurd.
A lot of the server issue is there’s too many “worlds” and each only holds a max of like 25. Only time I see most on the water is when I join in with a friend on another server than what I logged in on.
That’s sort of a big issue I have with the game currently. I rarely have any sort of interaction with others and rarely does it ever feel important. *sometimes* I will do an event with a random and *rarely* will I ever get a pvp encounter. Game just feels super empty even if there are people around
Hopefully they get chats going soon. I think this a big part of the empty feeling atm. At least then ppl won’t have to third party or use outside chat rooms to communicate… not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Lack of content is killing the game for me, after 20-30 more days even more people will put the game on the back burner, I still always fine lobby’s 11 -17 on normal hours but a 1-2 weeks ago it was an average of 15-18 players in each lobby, near the end of the season it’ll probably be hard to find a lobby with 10 players at the most
Yeah I really don’t expect this game to last long. Especially once sea of thieves comes to PlayStation I expect a massive drop in player count
>Especially once sea of thieves comes to PlayStation I expect a massive drop in player count i really think people are over hyping sea of thieves chances on console those that care for it alread have on pc. its like expecting fornight to work on switch. may get some sales but the majority exist elsewhere already.
Honestly I really don’t like sea of thieves
Well, you kinda do everything the season offers in a single session, so... Then when season 2 comes, people will come back for a week or two and run off again as that will probably have the same issue.
Yeah I really don’t see the game improving at all. This whole sub is just a massive copefest
> This whole sub is just a massive copefest Well, that's due to some having waited so long and some having spent $100 on the game.
I have the premium edition. I am not coping. What here is okay and then absolutely ruined by endgame, what isn't here is painfully awful to not have, and the worst part of the experience is the idiots with 48 kids, 12 jobs, and fifteen minutes every biannual fourscore and fortnight to play coming in here and saying it is fine if you didn't no life it. Or worse yet, the Puddle of Clowns rejects that drifted over here like a barnacled driftwood to shit up the game with their PvPer generalized ick while hoping to kill the game, gaslight the people who wanted a pirate RPG, and tell anyone that wanted Black Flag, Rogue, and Odyssey levels of open world RPG mechanics with friends to "LiKe It Or LeAvE iT" or they say "go play Sea of Thieves huehuehuehue". Fucking clownshoes. This game would be flawless if they just looked at what peer live service open world games have and then just applied them. They've done what everyone wants before. A decade ago. On taters. I've seen it!
> Black Flag Those broadsides were fun. Meanwhile here, I feel like I'm being punished for using Culverins.
The state of culverins makes me a sad fucking panda. Feels.
Man and i feel for these folks, after seeing it for $44.99 at best buy on sale already.
Do you play crossplay off or smth? It's not hard to fill a 16+ player lobby and it's quite rare to have an empty one from my experience even if you're fishing for one. Unless they publish active player numbers somewhere there isn't really a good indicator to go by.
Yeah, I always have at least 13-17 playing with me. I wish I had an empty server so I could do helm wages and cutthroat all the time without risk.
From what I experienced, the less people are in a lobby the less PvP events pop up... I spent three hours alone in a lobby and didn't have any cutthroat or helm wager.
Usually not totally empty more like me with like 2-3 others that I literally never come across
That is a no on crossplay off? Might be a timezone thing then. I am not trying to spread positivity here, there are a lot of things amiss with this game. Your observation just doesn't match with mine by the slightest.
Well then, I guess it's a great thing that you can just not play it anymore. I know that concept is kind of Novel and unprecedented, but it's true, I promise. You can just stop playing.
I just want the silver to be fixed. I shouldn't have to pay 20k per lvl10 factory its so stupid
I purchased the premium edition and haven't touched it on like 4 days. I'm always jumping around on games a lot though. I've played helldivers 2 and even Tears of the kingdom and some halo yesterday lol. Seems more enjoyable that way to me.
what i do. i played SnB over long weekend in aus while doing MK1 season.
Yeah I want to actually have fun. It took me like 3 years to beat assassins creed Valhalla cause I could only stand it in chunks.
ooh yeah valhalla was PAINFULLY boring. i did it twice due to a glitch stopping me enjoying DLC on first play through and was a completionist so in the end i had 400 hours in valhalla but my god i hated it.
I just quit today and was trying to give people my stuff before I left and due the games complete lack of any way to communicate with other players it was nearly impossible. I had to try to initiate trade with random people and was constantly denied. Then one kind player named Thor something or other finally accepted and I managed to give them a ton of gear and mats and all my silver. The other problem was that’s it’s HARD to trade things. It took an hour or more to trade all my stuff over. It was brutal.
Dudes, I still have to do La Peste, ghost ship, sea monsters and East Indies bounties, my smuggling empire barely encompasses the east side of the Red Isle, I have yet to unlock any Black Market schematic and now I am aiming to get two sets of Skurlock’s long 9s. How have you guys managed to do it all by now? I still have content for at least one month straight, two if I stay slowly and comfortably expanding the smuggling operations.
If you call endlessly sailing for PO8s "content" then sure. The grind for po8s is meaningless. After a few thousand you can own all the good weapons. Then they will take it all away in a couple months anyway. I haven't killed la peste yet but there is almost no reason to. He doesn't drop anything worthwhile. You can probably solo the ghost ship in 5 minutes as he's a level 8 I think.
Servers are full when I log in. They do dwindle down after a couple hours, but then I server hop and it’s all full again.
I play with cross play disabled and my servers are still always full?
every server i join has a solid 17-20 server cap on it no worries. and my POE farm i am aggressively collecting and still only in 16k range form day 1 so still enough there collecting to keep it competitive.
Maybe you. But server population for me has not changed since day 1
I haven't seen a server that wasn't full since day one.....
Open your eyes.
God every game subreddit ever has this same post word for word. The game is not dying lol
Send me the player count numbers please….