The final 12 months or so have proved that regardless of mega budgets and the perfect intentions, it’s powerful on the market for stay service video games. Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League. Harmony. Most just lately, Ubisoft’s XDefiant. These are simply among the titles which have met (or will quickly meet) their ends. One other identify that I assumed could be destined for the videogame graveyard could be fellow Ubi venture Cranium and Bones. The co-op sport seems to have been struggling, however based on a brand new report, help for the sport might proceed properly into the longer term, with a second yr of content material allegedly deliberate.
For the report, Cranium and Bones will not be a horrible sport – in actual fact, a few months again we gave it a little bit of a vouch and mentioned it was price a strive whereas closely discounted in a Steam sale. Nonetheless, it’s not a show-stopping, must-play sport both. Cranium and Bones doesn’t precisely do a lot that its predominant rival, the well-established Sea of Thieves, already does. Consequently, the co-op sport has felt like one other doomed stay service endeavor. Whereas Ubisoft hasn’t shared participant depend stats throughout all platforms, we do know that on Steam, it’s actually struggling, with each day concurrent peak participant counts struggling to get previous 300 gamers more often than not.
Nonetheless, don’t write it off simply but. New claims from Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson, who has a robust observe report along with his reporting on Ubisoft’s video games, counsel {that a} plan for a second yr of content material and help is in place – a luxurious that XDefiant sadly isn’t being afforded.
Henderson’s sources say that Yr 2 Season 1 of Cranium and Bones is about to start out early subsequent yr – I believe shortly after its first birthday on February 16. This may reportedly carry “new PvP sport modes, locations of curiosity (POIs), new world tiers, and extra” to the sport.
Ubisoft is outwardly additionally all for extra crossover occasions, and whereas Henderson isn’t absolutely assured that it’ll come to fruition, an occasion with Ubisoft’s celebrated pirate journey Murderer’s Creed Black Flag could possibly be within the works. This will coincide with the rumored remake of Black Flag.
Regardless of Cranium and Bones’ fairly dismal Steam participant depend, his sources additionally says that precise numbers throughout all platforms “‘may shock folks,’” therefore Ubisoft’s willingness to help the sport it as soon as infamously referred to as a “quadruple-A” product.
Now, it’s time for me to carry out the salt shaker, as a result of this wants a pinch. XDefiant’s govt producer Mark Rubin was saying simply a few months in the past that plans had been additionally being made for his sport’s second yr of content material. Nonetheless, earlier this month, Ubisoft introduced that it was scrapping help for XDefiant and that it might absolutely shut down subsequent June. At this time’s Season 3 replace to the sport truly accommodates further maps, weapons, and playable operators that had been made and able to launch in future seasons – some as far off as Season 8. So, all of that’s to say that plans could be swiftly modified for any Ubisoft title in the meanwhile.
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