It needs a remake because Ubisoft spent 10 years developing a mega expensive AAAA pirate game … with the gameplay and monetization and time wasting of a mobile gacha game… and this (and other things) nearly bankrupted Ubisoft when it utterly flopped.
Basically every prominent game reviewer either indirectly or directly said ‘wtf, this is nothing like an actual pirate game, how is this possible, you idiots made black flag, just do that again with some tweaks and/or new content.’
… So Ubisoft is now in ultra conservative ‘make only winning bets’ mode, now that they’ve… kind of functionally split into two different Ubisofts, following a shareholder and board member revolt…
So they’re just remaking the pirate game they already made, because they know people did actually like that one.
tl:dr, it needs to be remade because Ubisoft has no concept of how to do anything new that works, they’ve realized that, and are now trying to stop hemmoraghing money.
It needs a remake because Ubisoft spent 10 years developing a mega expensive AAAA pirate game … with the gameplay and monetization and time wasting of a mobile gacha game… and this (and other things) nearly bankrupted Ubisoft when it utterly flopped.
Basically every prominent game reviewer either indirectly or directly said ‘wtf, this is nothing like an actual pirate game, how is this possible, you idiots made black flag, just do that again with some tweaks and/or new content.’
… So Ubisoft is now in ultra conservative ‘make only winning bets’ mode, now that they’ve… kind of functionally split into two different Ubisofts, following a shareholder and board member revolt…
So they’re just remaking the pirate game they already made, because they know people did actually like that one.
tl:dr, it needs to be remade because Ubisoft has no concept of how to do anything new that works, they’ve realized that, and are now trying to stop hemmoraghing money.