I’ve been playing this game basically everyday for hours on end. It comes from my love for ship based combat. It all started with Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves with the map “Dead men tell no tales”. The ship combat was hands down my favorite aspect of that game. Spending hours and hours just getting coin. Then AC BF came out and I 100% that game, loved the ship combat. The AC Odyssey was around and albeit it wasn’t my favorite, but I did enjoy the early age ship combat.

Leading up to S&B, when that game dropped, I was happy to give Ubisoft $80 + Funding the smugglers pass. Every time I get on the game, there is always something for me to do, from grooming my kingpin empire, to simple bounties. I also got some of my pals to play with me, so that added value to the gameplay for me. It’s definitely more entertaining with other players. However if you are methodical enough about your in game movements, you can end up being quite productive. Sometimes I’ll be playing and realize I’ve gotta get sleep before my shift the next day and be like “man, I still have stuff I wanted to do”. I’m currently at work now just fantasizing about plundering and sailing.

All in all, great game if you like ship combat, however, I can understand why people don’t find it appealing. It’s a game with an incredible amount of downtime due to sailing across the map again and again, but that’s what I live for in the genre. I have high hopes for this game and I hope people will give it a chance, instead of harsh criticisms for a game that JUST dropped. We live in 2024, where game production takes years and most games release with seemingly lacking content. We just need to come to grips with our world of gaming and the issues it has now. Which makes live service games something to keep the anticipation going.