Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag Players Rise 200% Upon Skull and Bones’ Release
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Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag Players Rise 200% Upon Skull and Bones’ Release

The variety of folks enjoying Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag has risen 200% on Steam after the discharge of fellow Ubisoft pirate recreation Skull and Bones.

As reported by PCGamesN, the participant numbers of 2013’s Black Flag have floated both facet of 1,000 for years. In keeping with monitoring web site SteamDB, nonetheless, this quantity spiked on February 16: the day Skull and Bones lastly launched after years of troubled improvement.

Black Flag rose to 1,679 gamers upon launch, adopted by 2,600 on February 17, and 3,226 on February 18. That development has continued, not dipping beneath 2,401 since reaching a brand new peak of three,594 on February 25. Skull and Bones has but to launch on Steam, with Ubisoft favouring a PC launch on the Epic Video games Retailer and its personal storefront, so participant numbers are unavailable.

Introduced in 2017, Skull and Bones initially regarded set to offer gamers with extra of what made Black Flag so widespread: intense and dramatic ocean adventuring and fight. Six delays seemingly brought on pleasure to dwindle, nonetheless, and Skull and Bones has lastly arrived in 2024 to little fanfare. “Skull and Bones is a maritime RPG with a powerful basis, even when it appears like a live-service first draft,” IGN stated in our 7/10 evaluation.

Ubisoft’s advertising and marketing for the sport has seemingly impressed a number of thousand gamers to return as an alternative to Black Flag, even with an eight-hour free trial of Skull and Bones obtainable.

In our 8/10 evaluation of the previous, IGN stated: “Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag is a beautiful, incredible sequel that offers you the liberty to make your personal enjoyable.”

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.

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