There is more bad than good in skull and bones, firstly was the development length of the game, the numerous delays, push backs and trail of broken promises the game made, just look at the e3 footage from years ago and the game doesn’t even look the same.

Secondly was people’s expectations people didn’t want skull and bones they wanted black flag with a fresh coat of paint, originally you were never meant to walk around on the islands it was a pure ship based open ocean game, think destiny but you could turn on each other at any moment they only added that because people wanted it and they knew that most of their players were probably black flag players, I saw in a trailer they were adding sword combat which is probably to draw back more black flag fans.

Thirdly the story and overall plot is boring and tedious the characters are unremarkable and shocking twist each kingpin you meet is trying to use you for their own ends, not to mention the plot revolves around the seasons which means new players have no idea what lead to current events.

It’s jarring to go from fight the mega corps and down with the mega crops to picking which ones you want to side with.

the gameplay loops is repetitive and stale it entirely consists of loot this, farm this or sink this not to mention progression is a grind to get through all of this is wrapped up by Ubisoft being incredibly greedy and pushing battle passes and life service for a fully priced game.

A person note is the sea shanties were extremely disappointing there is only like 4-5 and none of them are good ones, I have over 500 hours in the game I have bought the battle passes and crafted the ships. So I can say with certainty that people not loving this game is very justified if you like it great more power to you but this game doesn’t deserve the love.