Skull and Bones wants to be the "best open world pirate experience" out there - can it topple Sea of Thieves?

It’s funny that Ubisoft is using “long live pirates” as the tagline for Skull and Bones, given that once upon a time the boss of the developer/publisher revealed that a miniscule 5-7% of players on PC actually paid for the company’s products. Whilst I’m sure those figures are better now – DRM does its job, for better or worse – the company still has a long history (and plenty of missing profits) thanks to piracy. So to see the studio knowingly wink and say “long live piracy” is...