A few days ago, IGN launched a "Ubisoft new work who are you most looking forward to?" In the new poll, the pirate adventure game "Black Sails" with many years of pie painting was ranked 8th with 2.9% of the vote. It's no wonder players aren't interested, Ubisoft has basically exhausted the patience of fans on the game, but in the financial results report for the third quarter of this fiscal year, Ubisoft executives revealed that "Blue Sea Black Sail" will be released in the next fiscal year starting in April 2022.
On the conference call, Ubisoft CFO Duguet claimed that the development of the game works for the next fiscal year was smooth, he mentioned "Avatar", "Mario Crazy Rabbit", etc., and said that "Blue Sea Black Sail", which focuses on multiplayer games, has been developed for a long time, but the company is "very satisfied" with the direction of the game art and the progress so far.
"This is a very promising new IP, and we're going to focus on multiplayer first, which is very much in line with our strategy of putting multiplayer competition and collaboration first in a large open world with big and attractive fantasy elements," he said. We spent a long time developing the game, but we're very happy with the artistic direction and the progress of the game so far."
However, judging from the financial report of the previous quarter, the turnover of Ubisoft games is not very optimistic. According to the report for the fiscal quarter ended December 31, Ubisoft's sales in the third fiscal quarter fell by 31% to 666 million euros, and game pre-sales fell by 25% to 848 million euros.
In terms of game lineup, the main works of the fiscal season include "Far Cry 6" and "Extreme Country", etc., and their attractiveness to players has not reached the same level of the same period in 20 years.
Entries for the fourth fiscal quarter of this fiscal year include Rainbow Six: Xenomorph, Worker's Tales, and the new DLC for Assassin's Creed: Temple of Heroes.