tbh the game this seems to be about "Skull and Bones" isn't even that bad... The character models (especially faces) look pretty bad and I haven't tried intentional multiplayer, but that's all I've really noticed (played it for about 6-7 hours, including open beta)
I think that in a vacuum the game isn't that bad, but given the context of how much it costs, how long it's been in development, being hailed as the first "AAAA game", and the fact that they literally made a better version of this game 11 years ago and the game is only mediocre I totally understand why this game has gotten the reaction it has.
I was watching something on YouTube and the guy did a sponsorship for Skull and Bones.
One of the comments was, "Only (whoever the guy was) could make a sponsor pitch for Skull and Bones interesting."
Since I am completely not a game person, and had no idea what the hell Skull and Bones is outside of some weird Yale fraternity that spawns bad presidents, and I naturally skipped past the whole script in the video, the comment didn't make much sense to me.