Skull and Bones Launch Drives 200% Spike in Assassin's Creed 4 Players
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Player numbers for Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag on Steam have risen by 200% since the release of Skull and Bones on February 16th.
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Black Flag reached 1,679 players on February 16th when Skull and Bones launched, followed by peaks of 2,600 and 3,226 in the days after.
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Numbers have stayed above 2,401 since February 25th when there was a new peak of 3,594 players.
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Skull and Bones has not launched on Steam yet, only on the Epic Games Store and Ubisoft's own storefront.
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Ubisoft's marketing of Skull and Bones seems to have brought players back to Black Flag, even with an 8-hour free trial available.