Skull and Bones Planning Year 2 Content Despite Low Player Numbers

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Skull and Bones Planning Year 2 Content Despite Low Player Numbers



Summary

  • Ubisoft reportedly planning Year 2 content for Skull and Bones.
  • Skull and Bones only has roughly 200 concurrent players on Steam, but a new report claims the game’s player count “might surprise people.”
  • Year 2 Season 1 supposedly planned for early 2025 with new PvP modes, locations, world tiers, and more.



An industry insider has claimed that Ubisoft is currently planning to release new Year 2 content updates for Skull and Bones, despite the incredibly low player count on some platforms. The long-awaited action-adventure game was finally released in February 2024 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, but given Skull and Bones‘ lackluster reception and Ubisoft’s turbulent year, many were expecting new content updates to come to an end after its first year.

While analysts are predicting massive changes for Ubisoft in 2025, the studio has had somewhat of an unstable year. The lackluster response to Star Wars Outlaws, which was supposed to be one of the studio’s biggest titles for 2024, saw the company’s stock price take a 10% dip and come close to reaching a 10-year low for the studio. This also came after multiple layoffs throughout the year, but this is something that has been a common occurrence in the gaming industry throughout 2024, with massive studios such as Activision-Blizzard, Sony, Riot Games, and many more cutting jobs to remain financially viable.


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Skull and Bones Reportedly Planning Year 2 Updates

Despite the incredibly low user reviews for Skull and Bones, Ubisoft reportedly plans to continue supporting the title for a second year. According to a new report from Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson, sources who have knowledge of the studio’s plans say that a Year 2 Season 1 update will be released “early next year” and will feature new PvP modes, locations, world tiers, and more. Skull and Bones‘ most recent content update, known as Year 1 Season 4: Shadows of the Deep, was released on November 19 and added new world events, sea monsters, events, features, and more.


Skull and Bones finally came to Steam back in August, and despite its peak player count only reaching 2,615 players (via SteamDB), Insider Gaming’s report claims that the anonymous source revealed Skull and Bones‘ player numbers “might surprise people,” which is why Ubisoft is reportedly remaining fully committed to delivering brand-new content for a second year. There’s no way to verify player numbers on other platforms, such as PlayStation and Xbox, but Skull and Bones averages around just 200 concurrent players on Steam.

The news of Skull and Bones reportedly receiving a second year of content updates will come as a surprise to many, largely due to the fact that Ubisoft recently announced it would be shutting down XDefiant, which many first-person shooter fans were expecting to go toe-to-toe with Activision’s powerhouse, Call of Duty. Servers for the title will remain operational until June 3, 2025, but new downloads and registrations are now unavailable. The free-to-play title was only released back in May but seemingly failed to garner enough attention to warrant further updates and support.

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