i stopped playing sot and i say that the game stinks because they are making it worse with 'updates'

​@@sSteppingStones If you're not playing the game nothing's stopping you from moving on and I wish you well. But sticking around the peripheral and shouting "Game sucks!" at anyone who is enjoying it is not a good look. You're kinda proving the point GeeNee is making with the whole "Dead...to me" line.

yep! but i still have hope that rare will make it better again + some people takes are some of the best laughing i have ever done

@@JonBardcore SoT means/meant a lot to some competitive players. It took rare years to make the game as casual friendly as possible by lowering the skill ceiling/trying to kill this part of their community. Over those years a lot of people spent hundreds if not thousands of hours in the game. It's not that easy to completely ignore something that had such an impact on you for that long. Some of the people who sound negative in comments like Bee here just want to see the game doing better.

@@Hap_ crazy thing is these are the constant players that have stayed for the game mostly because the PvP is something fresh and not just like what cod is and that there's a little strategy involved, it's a shame that this company doesn't care for those people as the ones they cater to will leave after 50 hours of gameplay because there's nothing to do after hitting PL

So it was you my kids were cursing... just kidding.

Broken ankles Pirate edition

Well played

If i did that my rowboat would glitch out when it dropped and i wouldnt be able to drive it and would just jitter up and down

Yupppp, "concurrents" always trips people up. That 386K actives number is almost certainly *just* based on Steam - it's pretty easy to extrapolate 14K peak concurrents out to 200-400K monthly uniques. Devs have regularly said it gets "millions" of MAUs. So at least over 1M but in the past on big releases (like Disney Pirates) it hit nearly 5M uniques!

He really struck a nerve with you lads eh

@@TheCAPITALgenius uh we're agreeing with him?

monthly logins is not really a great way to measure activity.

@@mrblob107 Monthly logins is a great way to measure monthly logins tho. And Steam gives a rough idea of daily concurrents, including historic activity over time. Do you actually have a point you're trying to make, or...?

Well, actually it WAS marketed as a pvp game for majority of its launch. Pvp content was consistently promoted in sot trailers for a long while until around when the Pirates life tall tale series was released and they roped in a whole bunch of new players. Because of this massive increase due to a story release, their entire focus shifted from pirate game based on combat and player interaction, to pirate game based on short story missions and pve grinding.

​@le_big_monke543 notice how he said COMPETITIVE PvP game? It was marketed as a pirate game that had pirate elements such as yknow stealing shit. But a hard-core PvP experience was never what rare offered with the game. At the end of the day it's a sandbox game with optional PvP and because it's a sandbox some people will love the PvP and some will hate it. For a very long time PvP elements were added to the game with each update. I agree a new ship or type of cannonball/weapon would be cool but at the end of the day it's rares game and they want to tell a naritive and that's what they are focusing on. And like it or not alot of people are excited for that narrative and more PvE stuff to do.

Exaclty man I loved this game maxed everything nearly and once seasons arrived it just didn’t feel the same

The seasonal model in general is one of the worst things to happen to games imo. Fomo and microtransactions run rampant nowadays. Sot is still fun to play but I agree seasons are not good for the game

@@zeeboss7553 sorry if I didn't make it clear. It's not the seasonal models themselves that I have a problem with, it's just that the community adapted to them in a weird way which kinda made the game lose its casual charm

I saw alot of the old players complaining they were changing double gunning mechanics and how they didn't want to have to use a sword again. People like Theb destroying casuals and then complaining Rare changed something they had been exploiting for years.

Losing long time dedicated players for new players who quite possibly will be gone within a month or two. Doesn't really add up long term

Xbox numbers could be going up for all we know, would that be proof that the game is recovering? Not really. All I care about is how many players can fit on one server. If they only had 50 total players at a time and they could all be on the same server I’d play more than I do now.

​@@tobyonatabe2601you cant know, because xbox numbers are not posting officially

Welcome back!

Do you play solo or with others?

@@dan65l.s.62 10% solo, 90% with others, the game is so much better with shipmates.

Same bro, i havnt played properly since 2020. Been absolutely loving the convenience + there’s way more to do now

@@HPsawus Hell yeah, welcome back!

His legend gets it. Competitive gaming is why gaming doesn't feel the same these days. Too man tournaments, too many kids spending all day on the game to play competitively.

Nope you're right. But people just don't wanna hear it.

hitreg isn't worse, that was the server stability issues. They said it on a recent video. As someone who has played 2400+ hours, I don't think you like the game that much, if you need the devs working on something new to "spark" your experience.

@@vandrar3n “they said” lol, gotta love when naive people who don’t know don’t know what they’re talking let you know who they are right off the rip. 👍 (They’re claiming that shooting a pirate and that shot hitting, but not registering, ISN’T a hit registration issue, which it is by definition for those keeping track, it’s actually a “server stability issue” because “they said so”, it DEFINITELY CAN’T be the thing they claimed they fixed but turns out it’s not actually fixed but they can’t admit that because holy shit if they did, so they shuck the blame onto some other broken feature, since they have a laundry list to choose from. It DEFINITELY can’t be that, huh-uh, no way! If they actually had 2400 hours in the game they’d be FULLY aware of the insane amount of time Rare has “said” something then went completely the opposite direction or have been caught dead to rights lying: “we will never bring back hard earned time limited cosmetics, as that would ruin their value and achievement” *brings back time limited cosmetics right after, then continues doing so, claiming they never said that*, just one example in another long list) Edit: also hard to “spark interest” when the only thing I wanna do in this game is fight other pirates and my two options are: sit underwater in a queue or 15 minutes, sink a some brand new guy who accidentally voted on hourglass within 5, rinse repeat, OR I can sail around for a couple hours in a dead game looking for someone else to shoot a cannonball at. There’s a reason I quit a week into season 9, literally couldn’t find people to play against and got bored af doin uncontested fofs. And looking at season 10, it’s the exact same except empty fotds instead of fofs. VERY exciting gameplay. Edit 2: peoples’ biggest complaint about the new siren song event? Not enough people contesting it and they’re bored af. Go figure. 🙄

@@zebdawson3687 oh, you're so funny, mate. You know shit because you played 1500 hours, which is esentially nothing.

@@vandrar3n i know shit because I actually know shit, not just claim to know it because I heard it from someone else. I love how you think ANY amount of time doing something automatically makes you an expert (that’s called a “call to authority”, look it up, when instead of using your expertise to prove your point or support your argument, you use the FACT that you have “expertise”, in this case purely hours played, as your supporting argument, it’s a hilarious strategy used by real 1heads when they get backed into a corner or defensive about topics they’re passionate about, but aren’t smart enough or articulate enough to actual come to the defense of. It’s actual clown shit 🤡), when in the exact same comment you prove how very little actual knowledge you have. Absolutely ironic, but I somehow suspect you’re completely unaware that. I’ve met pirates with 3000 hours in the game that don’t know what dummy sails are. It’s hilarious that hours played is your metric for expertise, that’s some shit a child would do, homie. 😂 The other term I’d point out is called “pissing contest”, look that up too.

I just think you need to micromanage better

@@Criispy___ Such a brain dead reply lmao

@@beardedlonewolf7695 sure buddy, just get good

Then we should die togehter on the Sea of Thieves when Day X arrives one day, raising our tankyard and playing our instruments for a last time 🙂

Yea nowadays its rare to find other players. Back then u found way more

​@@NoisRit's really not now theirs just more shit to do so crews are often more spread out

@@ElroyTheTwost so i say its rare to find people and u say its not rare but then u proof my point by saying theres more to do so crews are more spread out... so what is it? :D

I feel this way too, I've wanted to play since it was first announced, but I have no inclination to get the lastest xbox game station.

not true, they removed at most one crew. It's always been five ships, was briefly six now back to five.

I noticed this as well, but it turned out that my geographical region is just not very populated. Using a VPN to connect to game servers in California, Texas, or Great Britain and I'm constantly finding full lobbies with forts of the damned going on, minute or less hourglass queues, active skull of siren songs. I think Rare needs to look at how their network infrastructure connects people.

Or they blow up your kegs in your stupid face and call gg but you log off in silent anger and disappointment.

@@rasithasenevirathne1604 Nah if they get the kegs before the ram goes off it's GGs. Kegs are just funny regardless of where they are imo.

If all it took was PvE'rs saying "Leave us alone" to chase off PvP'ers, more would.

hopefully PvE servers brings in money for rare so they can afford better servers and bring arena back

​@@sSteppingStones they won't brig Arena back, cause only you and four other guys (obviously exaggerating, but you should get the point) liked it.

I must be playing another game, cause my servers are occasionally close to full. If your servers aren't full, it's because a lot of people play the game hence the need for a lot of servers.

@@nerddotcom5817 L take the game is supposed to be both pve and pvp. If you don't like it the game is not for you

Play the tall tales. There are so many of them now and you can do them privately with safer seas

I think pvp was never really the centre focus, it’s just that it’s hard to avoid.

the new pvp mode for all its faults was the last good update with a bunch of content and new ways to progress. Hasnt been much since.

@@zeeboss7553 it was good but it needed more like team battles or just literally anything not just one and done.

the game is going to grow now that safe seas are coming, I like to play but I usually don't because of the some of the players. when folks find out they don't have to compete with people who are verbally abusive, the attitude towards this game will change , a lot.

what ''trolls'' are you talking about, actual trolls or pirates in a pirate game?

@infinitypeaches3329 no no like legit troll players hahah, they just screw around and bother you and your mates after grinding for literal hours only to loose everything to some randoms which keep tracking you down just cause they saw you sail by them like wtf

@@nickh4280 they want your loot and treasure, if you wanna to keep it, fight for it. but if you mean to say that you keep on sinking them and they keep coming back, that would be a little bit rude on their part. but that's not trolling, its just them being abit hard headed to come back again and again.

@captainshelf7 I rather grind and enjoy my loot than fight people for nothing just cause they are elazy to get the hard work done themselves mate. The fact that we try to fight em off and they keep coming back is sad af and that's why they are killing the game. Same like GTA online and Reddead, I love to go fishing, driving, hiking and all sorts in the game, but get ass clapped by some muppets. Where is the fun in that?

@@nickh4280 you've gotta fight em off so hard, they don't return. grinding for loot isn't difficult, just very time consuming. though it does suck when you sink an attacking boat only for it to not have any loot, and no supplies. The only issue MAYBE is fighting a war of attrition, but you could always stack back up. Btw If you're running an emissary, then the flag does mean you accept the risk of pvp and turns you into a shiny loot boat. If loosing loot is this much of a problem then just sell at every opportunity to keep your boat light.

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Yeah I feel you, honestly I couldn't care less about them removing double gun, I love this game for all the other things that involve the Player vs Player experience of it. It is such a unique game, a unique feeling, seeing it drift away from what makes me love it is so depressing. I doubt any other game will ever manage to capture this. Why do people call us "competitive" players? I'm not gaining anything by playing the game this way, I'm not raising on any ranking, I don't care about the money from selling loot. I just wanted the experience...

He literally said Sea of thieves is a CASUAL game, And was the whole point Arena got removed, Gee i wonder why theres no players in hourglass, Its almost as if no one wants to play competetive :o

bro oce servers r dead idk what ur talkin about @@luminaaaaa

I mean rare is actively trying to kill there game I mean it’s what it seems like at least. HAVE YOU LOOKED AT THE SERVER QUALITY. Hit reg has been a big problem for soooooo long. hackers were a problem for a YEAR straight it almost seems like they gave up on the game. I mean sot could not die if the game devs worked more then 3 days a week instead of throwing party’s at there headquarters half the time