I do think Rare can pull through this. This isn't the 1st time they have had their backs to the wall. When the game 1st launched, everyone was giving it mediocre to low scores and saying it was dead on arrival. But Rare pulled through and delivered banger after banger of updates. They even delayed the pirate emporium until they saw that their game was fit to sell microtransactions 1.5 years later. Most other companies would have had a cash shop right off the bat no matter how shitty their game was.

As a veteran player, all I've ever wanted is the game to feel fresh with new content and the servers not to feel so empty. I feel like season 8 hit the mark with this, but everything beyond that has felt subpar since then.

When I think about it, I paid $60 when the game came out, and haven’t paid anything since. For a game like COD, I used to happily pay the same for the game, and a season pass, all for only a years worth of content, not just cosmetics. And the best part is I’ve played this game, like a lot. And I’ve barely touched it compared to some people. I just think we need to remember as fans how spoiled we are with a live service game that truly has passion behind it, even with its shortcomings

What's ridiculous for me is they keep trying to motivate us with gold but add nothing to buy. Everything goes into the Emporium. The few things we do get are gold sinks.

As a day one player the game has lost me, Hit 200 in each HG about 8 months ago, have had no desire to load the game in recent times

They shouldn’t have moved the chest of fortune to FOTD , they should have added another item to FOTD , the set up for FOTD is an investment in time and the FOF was more just spontaneous combat so even an inexperienced crew felt they had a chance at a FOF, I don’t see mealy as many people doing fotds

0:14 I’m actually very happy with the SoSS addition. I was talking about everything that came before. 2019/2020 was peak sot. While nothing can beat the first year, part of that is nostalgia and it being new. My love for this game hasn’t diminished, but underwhelming years of recent does diminish my want to play the game. I’d be totally happy with a return to monthly updates. This may be unpopular, but the style of them was way more engaging. I played a lot every month. Now I play only a couple hours a season to finish the pass.

Based video as always. It's wild how much the sentiment about the game can change in 12 months. I think a lot of what makes SoT special and unique apart from other games also leads to these fractured expectations among the playerbase, that are compounded by the business realities that you addressed. Thanks for making such a well reasoned and articulate video about something a lot of us have been feeling. I would LOVE news of SoT 2 tbh lol.

My pessimism stems from a combination of burnout and boredom. I've played this game (off and on) since 2018. I've seen most major updates and I'm pretty close to completing every single commendation in the game (largely without trying). *I have nothing left to do in the PvE world* and thus I am primarily focused on the PvP aspect of this game. The AI and game mechanics are too simple to present any meaningful challenge... so any new PvE update is just a checklist I'm gonna blow through in a week and never touch again (monkey island). I can no longer get excited for PvE, which sucks, but that seems unlikely to change. The servers are practically on life support and have been for a long time. Hitreg has been a problem for so long that I dare say most of the veterans have given up on the notion of it ever getting fixed. We just hope it doesn't get any worse. Over the last year and a half, I've become more open to the idea of a "Sea of Thieves 2". Essentially, SoT can't keep growing like this for much longer and they're struggling to maintain what they have due to technical debt. So a "fresh start" so to speak might be a good idea be that a sequel or a reboot, I don't care. Stronger infrastructure, new features, and a revitalized interest in Sea of Thieves. Taking what they've learned over the years and using that knowledge to build a foundation for the future. That's probably the best play in the long term.

I've been feeling this way for a while and glad to know I'm not the only one! And see somebody be able to put it into words. Also dam being left on a cliffhanger is a new feeling for Sot youtube xD

Feels we are a bit past the mountaintop, and on the descent sadly. Maybe Rare have sumthin under their sleeves, or maybe not.... the adventure of it all is still special, just a bit played out

The game needs ranked/level based server match making to help people find players on their same skill level. The game also needs some form of actual progression, outside of cosmetics there isn't really anything that feels meaningful to get all this gold for, there are people sitting on millions of gold with nothing to spend it on and with no desire to play the game anymore because of this. I think actual additions to your ships are needed eg spending gold to get more storage barrels, slight bonuses to ship travel speed, slight cannon damage buffs etc, hard progression is needed as random additions won't keep people interested once they have tried them out for a week eg Like adding a grappling hook etc. These upgrades should be balanced towards crew sizes so smaller groups don't get bullied anymore then they already are, things like being able to design your ship to be better at avoiding combat by allowing smaller ships to be better at running away but have the trade off of less storage for loot etc. Lastly adding more ships and more weapons/utility tools; also server stability and performance needs to be fixed, its already being worked on by Rare as they have stated but it will be crucial for server issues to be fixed before any major gameplay additions can be added.

Rare is self sabotaging at this point. Look at the introduction of coloured rowboats as an example. It was a very low effort addition, using what was basically the arena rowboats and making no real mechanical changes. Even so, its introduction managed to bring in a crippling bug where the rowboats clipped through land and ate all the treasure that was onboard. Now we have sirens song which is already dead and guilds, which seem to be working but which by their nature require other things to make them operate....and sirens song doesnt give guild reputation - why? It seems like outsourcing - like the team we are expecting to turn up is giving their shift to others and all the lessons learned during these years are having to be learned again. The Rare we expect just turns up from time to time when the replacement crew hits a rock or if the playercount goes too low.

Safer seas brought me back, sadly I missed so many live events. But I couldn't enjoy them anyway because I would just be spawn camped or suddenly have kegs spawn on my ship and shot by a floating pirate. Least now I can actually enjoy the stories the Devs put time into making so long ago.

Sea of thieves is like watching your talented friend from high do nothing with his potential

Sea of Thieves is one of my favorite games ever, if not the favorite. But that being said, I haven't played it regularly in probably over 2 years. There are three big reasons for that, and two of those reasons don't really have to do with the game itself. The two reasons are the people I used to play with regularly stopped playing a lot because of life stuff, and that I kind of got burnt out on it after the update that introduced the sirens. The reason that does have to do with the game though, is the main reason why I didn't come back. The majority of the recent updates and seasons in SoT have had a focus on pvp. Now, I never was one to shy away from pvp, but the focus on pvp and the introduction of stuff like hourglass seemed to bring in a lot of sweats and changed the meta of how fights went. Instead of being on a level playing field with almost everyone I came across, only really fearing streamers, now I'm scared of getting one-balled with every cannon that gets shot at me. And I don't want to have to grind out hourglass and learn all the new strategies just so I'm on a level playing field with the sweats that have seemed to infested the seas. I loved Sea of Thieves because it was an adventure. Every voyage was interesting and fun because I got to explore this world of pirates and legends. Yes, I ran into hostile people, I got sunk (a lot), and I was constantly watching my back. But I still had fun. Now, that magic seems to have mostly gone from the game, at least for me. One of the big things with the magic for was that there's an amazing story throughout the entire world that has wonderful worldbuilding, stroytelling, and characters. Now, it seems like Rare has almost forgotten about the story/lore side of things. I know Safer Seas isn't going to be a perfect solution, but I do hope it will bring back a little bit of that magic that I used to feel every time I hopped onto my ship and set sail. And I hope that other players who are in similar boats as I am will also start to come back to the game and hopefully dilute these sweat infested waters a bit. There's an amazing story throughout the entire world that has wonderful worldbuilding, stroytelling, and characters. Now, it seems like Rare has almost forgotten about the story/lore side of things. There's an amazing story throughout the entire world that has wonderful worldbuilding, stroytelling, and characters. Now, it seems like Rare has almost forgotten about the story/lore side of things. (This was a lot longer than I thought it would be.)😅

My biggest issue with this game is the complete lack of good gameplay. Back when the game first launched, every battle was an honest ship battle where the winner was the one who could maneuver his ship and fire the most cannonballs. Now, as soon as you login and get a few chests of treasure, some reaper 5 sweat who plays 18 hours a day will board you, keg you, then proceed to spawn kill you using some glitch the devs don't bother patching until you're dead and your ship is sunk. Then he will do it again, over and over, because the spawns in this game are stupid. Another thing, I'm not sure how the cheating issue is at the moment, haven't played the game in a year or so. But when I last played, there was not a single lobby without some invisible, teleporting, god-mode cheater on your ship. The game was borderline unplayable, especially on European servers (Russians).

All I'm waiting for is NPC crews for Solo players to be able to play the brigantine and galleon

it is so funny to me that rare actually thought this would be a super season

Absolutely fantastic video! I am actually returning to sea of thieves with my mate as a day one player. I am proud of my little day one eye patch lol. Cant wait to return. I played it flat out maybe 3000 hours over the first 3 years but stopped completely in 2021. There seems to be a ton added since. Safer seas! Good heavens I never thought I would see the day. Probably lovely for tall tales to be honest but other than that I think I will be sticking to free for all seas. I am however still gutted they got rid of arena but now I hear about this hourglass thing and my spirits are lifted. I am excited to jump back in. Pity about hit reg still being such an issue. That was always a pain.

Now this video is spot on! Absolutely agree with you here! We will see how the community reacts to a stagnating safer seas while the high seas gets updated. The devs don’t want safer seas to be the full game so we will see.

4:29 I feel like you're assuming here that the next update; or any update for that matter will be mutually exclusive from the Safer Seas mode. There is no rule that outlines that any content additions in the future have to be relegated to one mode or the other. And I believe that with the sheer volume of players returning to the game exclusively for that mode; Rare may end up relaxing or outright removing many of the restrictions that do exist within the mode. Further reducing the need or likelihood of future updates to be exclusive towards High or Safer seas. What Safer Seas has done is given SoT that 'shot to the vein' injection of players who were driven from or kept from the game due to the forced PvP and it's up to Rare to capitalize on that momentum.

1v2 at 8:00 made me grin from ear to ear

I'm coming to play a hell lot in Safer Seas, it is something I always wanted to do, but never could. To play alone, doing Tall Tales, chilling exploring every island, filling my boat with treasure chests, fighting skeleton, megalodons, krakens, and fishing without any pressure from other players. Money and progression can wait for me.

You're a champ Ray, whatever happens with SoT I know your future is bright!

i fell in love with sot back in the beta where there was no npc threats besides the skellys for oos all there was to do back than was collect treasure and kill skellys. but the thing that got me into the game was the pvp i will never forget my first fight against another crew, noob gally against noob gally missing shoots and fighting for 30min cause both crews were just bad, fighting over loot which wouldnt even be worth collecting today but altho there was no skill involved it was just plain fun, it was a type of pvp done in a way i never seen in a game before. i liked the world setting and the sailing felt incredible but it was the pvp that made me love the game. and that why i just cant understand why rare now implements savespace seas, they said no to pve server for years but after loosing many players to the constant content delays and just recycling instead of bringing anything new and exiting to the game they now go against their words in a despared attemped to push player numbers back up again. but all saver seas will do is divide rares resources for them to now having to work on 2 seperate gamemodes again (what they also didnt wanted to do anymore since it was one of their reasons for why the decided to close arena back than). save seas wont save the game and all those who praise savespace seas now will sooner or later reach the point where most of us longtime players are, the pve gets just boring and repetetive after doing it enough times and than those players hopefully go back to high seas (which would make safe seas wasted resources) or drop the game entirely till the next big content update. in the long run safe seas wont do any good for the state of the game.

About this Sandbox being full of sand, we could just expand the box itself, but this means leaving previous gen behind. IMO SoT needs to make a decision whether they want to support whatever % playerbase is playing on old consoles and consider making a separate experience for them. We can't have new updates and features being constantly pushed back because old consoles can't handle it.

All I've wanted in sea of thieves hasn't been new updates but improvements to the core game mechanics. The game has had everything it needed since 2019.

I’ve heard the xbox one limited what they could do with the game and even when I used it, I agreed they should stop support for it if it means moving the game forward, but idk how exactly it’d improve server performance

I’ve been playing the game since 2019 and spent the first few years being absolutely shit scared of reapers and pvp but thanks to the addition of HG I’ve actually started enjoying the pvp side and I think I’m enjoying the game more now than ever

Do you think removing support from the xbox one would help or are we too far gone to even do that last time i played on my og xbox textures were practically nonexistant and the load times fucking infinite maybe it would help

I cannot say anything specific, but Insiders also doesn't have me super excited anymore like it used to. Personally, if this game never got an update again, I would still play it. I would, however, take long breaks and play other games until a friend gets me back into SoT for a season. It will eventually get to that point imo where like Minecraft, it is fun, but after a while you have done everything and aren't enjoying it the same, so you take a break.

My only question is.. Will they remove the sword lunge? I didnt understand what they meant with the sword lunge meta thing

I'm starting to think 2024 will make or break the game. Season 10 was delayed the whole year and brought zero content. Then they threw us the skull and safer seas, but of those are such small content that they don't even matter. Next season is going to be another "system", and revamped voyages. But again nothing new. I hope it'll be good enough for the community, but the rest of the year needs to be packed otherwise they are going to lose the player base.

My gf and I just started playing and I can say it does feel a little empty at times but luckily I have her and we’ve created so many memories in just a few days. Will say if you’re a couple even though it’s not what it used to be it is so much fun learning with or teaching your partner how to play. I think the game is great and they’ll probably get some good updates into the future.

I don't like this trend we've gotten into where we're defending developers for not providing engaging content. We paid for the game, we pay for cosmetics, we pay for season passes. They're not poor innocent people who are doing a hobby -- They're doing what they are PAID to do. If Rare isn't providing quality content for the playerbase that has made their game what it is today, then they're doing a disservice to those players. You can put as much makeup on a pig as you want, but it's still a pig. That said, Season 10 has only been 'super' in terms of it being a 'super' lukewarm season. If server resources are truly what's holding back the game, I think it's time they got on the train like Final Fantasy XIV does every time there's a new generation console and put the scrap date on the original Xbox's that people played the game on half a decade ago. Remove the systems that are still supporting software that is crippling the development and optimization of the game, and spend the money on upgrading your servers. If Rare has the money to buy a solid gold skull and sets of silver keys for a public relations stunt that retained player attention for ONE month; surely there's got to be planning and money in the works to upgrade the server-side infrastructure. All depends on whether Rare thinks it's worth the money to keep the development of the game going, like you said it's about shareholders pockets and not our interest.

im not upset about the guilds or siren song update, but why was the delay so long... guilds was basically shared captaincy. and the song of sirens, i was really hoping it would add reason for the mermaid shrines, but they just grab random islands. They didnt use the tools they already had. they just reused islands we have seen far too much already

Here's an idea, what if they just made different maps? It would be a chore for rare, but if they could have say 3-4 versions of the sea of thieves and your server is just randomly one of the maps that could be a lot to add to the game. Like imagine having 100s of new islands to explore, each map would still have the same areas, shores of plenty devils roar and so on but the islands themselves would be different

I am no game developer but I do know Rare have the tech to put multiple crews together in other in a separete server from the main game world. if development in the main world is getting sketchy they should have reprioritize their efforts into what they are able to do. for example a Sea of the Danmed map expantion would have fulfilled the exploration side for both old and new players. 7 monthes of waiting for a lot of new menues is not the right direction in my opinon.

I’m a Merrick recreation and was wondering if you wanted to make a video or play?

All I want is for them to release a mode where you can fight your friends. That would be sick.

I think hunters call should be able to spawn in Megs and Krakens. Krakens are near impossible to come up on now especially since people can spawn world events constantly

It's not so much that Sea of thieves is dying it's that YOUR sea of thieves is dying, which is actually a good thing. The facts remain that pirates didn't attack each other canonically in history so to those of us who truly know what "pirate game" means the game is just starting to get good with the safer seas add on Now all that needs to happen is for the 30% gold and rep rate for loot in safer seas to be fixed to 100% and for loot you take from OTHER PLAYERS to be set to the 30% rate and not counting towards emissary

Very, very well said! Thank you for staying grounded and realistic. 🙏

The only thing they need to fix for me in the PVP servers is when you go for hourglass they put up some sort of barrier so that other ships can’t shoot at you or interfere with your fight that’s the only fix they need to hourglass!!

To fix the server problem what if on the return of flameheart the devils roars disappears also they could move the npcs and tall tales around so that people don't lose the opportunity for ashen curse and such

I pwrsonally want them to let you have 1 or 2 ships in safer seas woth toggleable pvp so the tdmers have an easy way to tdm

SoT had that feeling "This game with a few updates can be a great game, great potential", after all these updates the game is good but it will never be that 10/10 for me, i lost that feeling. I played 2 times after the Skull Of Siren Song, probably gonna login for the updates and events from now on...

The major issue for me is time. I just don’t have the time for any decent play session anymore. Combined with the lacklustre pace of content and story, it’s just not enough. It hurts because of how much I love the game, but it just doesn’t work for me anymore.

We‘re nearing a critical phase of updates that need to be bangers

As a day 1 player, the game slowly died with the seasons being pushed. Peak sea of thieves was 2019-2020 with monthly content updates. The fact its been over 3 years and the level cap has stayed the same for the trading companies is mind boggling along with hunters call not being touched at all. Every update, they focus on pvp but what treasure and goals are there to gain?? Hourglass was cool and the siren skull was cool but died quickly. We need more pve content, not pvp content constantly, that's the problem

Do you think Rare may ever pull the plug on the XBONE series? I wonder how much that is holding the game back.

I say it could be worth it to have safer seas keep the current state of game for years to come and have high seas evolve in drastic ways. Like, remove tall tales from highseas and make space in the world for new mechanics. That could help alot. My hunch.

I regret every minute I spent playing this game and Lethal Company is precisely why. It is the exact same premise, but faster, lower stakes, more fun, takes a FRACTION of the time and doesn't just boil down to soulless battle passes and patches meant to being you to the cosmetic shops. I see people talking about how the problem is that they don't add anything for you to buy... No, the PROBLEM is that the only fun you are getting out of the game is trying to farm cosmetics. The core gameplay is BAD. The mechanics are there, you FEEL like a pirate sometimes, but it's farcical; the game boils down to 6-10 hour stints where you do nothing but collect things, pray to god someone doesn't troll you along the way back, and then try to cash in... And for what? MORE cosmetics? An ever increasing pile that makes each individual one worth LESS? That's not "fun". The only excitement you get comes from occasionally outsmarting players trying to screw you over, but once you realize it's just catharsis over narrowly avoiding HAVING YOUR ENTIRE DAY WASTED, it becomes a lot less pleasant. This game was made to milk money out of you and I hate saying that because I love the art style so much, but it's true. The core experience is soulless, slow, and grind centric. I don't think any of that is actually enjoyable, people just get a dopamine boost from seeing their collectibles filled out, but then where is the end of that road? And if there is an end, what happens after you reach it? What do you ever have to do? SOT takes forever to effectively say nothing substantial where Lethal Company says a lot more in far fewer words. One wants you inflict you with FOMO so you spend money on it, the other just wants to provide a fun time.

They need to trust their fan base and invest heavily

I've started playing sot in March of 2023, and I've really enjoyed the game. I had to take a break since non of my freinds are playing and the games time investment with school.

Rare really just needs to fill the remainder of the map with new islands. Desert, jungle or ice theme them and it’ll be interesting again.

I want more boss style enemies in the water there is a ton of skeleton lords for the land but only the Meg and kraken for water and I also would like the Meg getting an upgrade in gameplay it just circles your boat and attacks every minute or so

They need a large kraken as a world event something 2-3 ships need to alliance up and kill or 1 exceptional crew, on a low spawn rate, that covers the world even and hunters call.

Coming just from the title alone and im watching the vid as we speak. I feel like the only way it CAN be good again is if they massively redo what we already have in game, particularly the map. I feel like what the could do is do some world changing and give us new islands, that replace old ones, or a complete overhaul of the devils roar PS: to help give a bigger sense of change or differentiation, the old map could be exclusive to safer seas

Well I think safer seas is something to get out of the way so they can work in other things. I also just got one of my buddies sea of thieves and am going to get back into this game

The current season is kinda half mid for me since none of my friends play the game anymore and guilds don't work for me as a solo play and I'm not much for pvp content so the skull quest isn't doing much either. I'm looking forward to the safer seas despite the deep gold cut, just something to do and listen to podcasts while relaxing without randoms ruining it.

Sequel would only be good if you kept all your progress but honestly that wouldn’t be too difficult to do considering it’s all just cosmetics

honestly if they just called the monkey island tall tales season 10, then I think that peoples mentalities would be better as it "wouldn't of been delayed"

I just want more reasons to interact with people, like the hungering deep update or more natural ways of PvP. I like the sirens song it’s just that I don’t like the fact that ships spawn right next to you and you’re slowed, especially when it’s faster to row a rowboat then to sail a galleon against wind

I joined in season 8, I feel like I missed a party dude💀

Currently loving Sea of Thieves. I would love it way more if there were private servers without limited loot or progression. That being said, I'm glad they've taken some steps for solo players who dislike the multiplayer aspect with sweaty players. I'll take what I can get. 😊

Yeah, you’re completely right an many points here. And i agree with what you prefer to be added. Personally, i cant think as fast as sweats. I get dizzy just watching them on youtuber and have no idea what they’re even doing to somehow win. So i guess im more of a repair and cannons if in pvp. Tho hunters guild and events would be my favorites. Its fun to be relaxed and meet people even if they try to kill you lol

I quit SoT some time in 2021, the game had too many game breaking bugs that I was encountering every battle with a player, they weren't being addressed, the update plan and story was going down hill, and perhaps a bit more. I haven't felt sad that I've left because it's great not having to worry about something that won't ever change. But, it does make me sad that so many people feel the same way I do but they stay. It feels like a shot in the foot for themselves and a waste of time, as I feel Rare hasn't shown love and care to the game in a long time, and every time I look back it seems to get worse. Unfortunate to see a game I somehow feel nostalgia for and once loved, sink so fast in the eyes of many due to the choices that were made. Edit: I will say, I do disagree with your statement on the game dying. While I don't think it's at an insane rate, I do believe it to be going down hill faster than most live service games nowadays. Rare knows that if the issues stay as bad as they are/were, then they will only be able to rely on new players, which runs out compared to constantly siphoning old players' hope.

My biggest problem with the game is everytime I play the ping is 100 or over. It's ridiculously bad. I have over 50 days of play time. I can tell you that the only way I'd still be actively playing this game daily is if I were getting paid to do so. Too many other games out there man.

"Looking for ways to free up processing power"? How about the glaringly obvious sea dogs tavern, with the invisible rock for starters? I also honestly fear that the only way they'd bring "new content" is by creating new commendations, and have players re-re-re grind the same exact content over and over again for titles/achievements.

Ds 1 character creation music 😤 got me acting up

What bothers me is that every update introduces new bugs as well, so the lackluster updates are even worse when it actively damages other aspects of the game. But also, the content hasn’t been great considering the delays. Guilds add no content and need like a chat or something for actual communication in the guild. Safer seas is also no new content. Skull of Siren song came out buggy and makes respawning of sunken ships a disaster, in addition to some smaller things I don’t like about it (and it’s not a big deal)

i've recently started playing and i love it so far

i wouldnt laber safer seas as "content" to be fair

consider the perspective of a player who doesnt want to PVP, at all. the people who do, and harass them on high seas, consider that harassment as a core part of the gameplay. the addition of safer seas doesnt actually exclude them from the new content, it adds content for people who only want to PVE. the people who want to harass those players (because it IS a part of the game in high seas) are excluding PVE players from the game in the first place. no longer having those players to prey upon, chance down, and harass might feel like a fundamental change to the game or an addition that excludes PVP players, but it isnt, its simply an addition that makes the game more inclusive as a whole. I can understand being frustrated that monthly content releases don't add any new items, adventures, or enemies for veteran players to face. the salt that safer seas is receiving is entirely undeserved and out of proportion.

The subtitles literally changed flame heart to "fart" lmaoo

It's been a rough year for SOT, and Rare have been very transparent and honest about that....but people are fickle and negativity is contagious. I'm sure Rare will regain their footing they just had a lot of righting the ship to do recently. Watch all the positive comments come rolling in next year with more FREE content as it has been since launch. Sot is still my favourite game and I've been blown away by the transparency and community engagement from the team for 5 years. I believe based on hints dropped by the team in podcasts etc that something huge is in the works like a engine overhaul, or sequel where all our progress carries over into the new expanded sea of thieves.

Ultimately, just like every other "online" game or "Games as a service", Rare will have to make Safer Seas a full game mode. Every other online game in existence (minus games like Rust) have PvP and PvE servers, which provide the exact same experience in both server types. The only difference being, you know you can be "ganked" in the open world if you play on a PvP server. This half arsed "Safer Seas" they just put out will satiate the OG players (and new players) who simply want to experience the PvE content.....but it will only do so for so long. Eventually, players will want more money and rep (past lvl 40) and they will yet again venture out into High Seas, and will quickly remember why they left the game in the first place, and leave again. The longer Rare avoids making SS a full game mode, the worse the player fall off will be. Its like cheating on your GF, even if you convince her to come back, when you inevitably cheat again, there will be no getting her back for a 3rd time. She will be done with you for good. The same fall is coming for SoT, if they dont manage this situation properly....and swiftly.

“Why the game will never be great again in the eyes of EVERY SINGLE PLAYER” that’s the wildest statement ever, at no point as a game ever been great in every players eyes. And definitely sea of thieves, there’s always been a group of people hating on whatever new.

I think most of the community at this point have way too high expectations.... This game is already great, its the player base that sucks.

I think there is a lot of technical debt. My pride and joy of a PC can barely push 120 frames at full cursed, console players are being left behind, and server stability has been down the drain overall. I hope that the developers are going to be able to reorganize and optimize the bloat of the game.

idk if this aged well

I think something amazing about Sea of Thieves that a lot of people forget is that every one of these updates are FREE. As a Destiny 2 player that’s unheard of

this will always be my favorite game. so many great memories

I just don’t understand why they spent so much time and resources on monkey island without using those assets or islands anytime else besides the tall tales. Such a cool area but i’ll prolly never visit again cause theres only 1 thing you do there

I love this game but it really needs a major update that truly shakes up ether foundation of the game. Honestly I would love a sequel or technical upgrade to the game since I feel like the current game is being held together like a very battered sloop.

honestly if this game was able to be modded like how gta 5 was for fivem roleplay. I think it would be the best game ever made. Imagine giving the community the power to have there own custom servers, factions, crews, pirate roleplay, cinematic camera modes, custom voyages, custom tall tales, custom world events, custom boss battles, custom pirate hideouts, jobs at outposts. I know it would never happen, and if it did happen it would be in a controlled environment fortnite creative type of deal which isnt that great but just imagine.

it's because they added pve but not the way people wanted, so while rares intent was all pve players will go to pve servers leaveing the sea open for pvp players this didn't happen due to the bad idea of there version of pve. not at all what people wanted so back to normal pve'rs went and refused to fight get treasure fish or anything why? because we don't want to get raided by no skill reapers who only raid players and do 0 work to earn loot. they should of just given pve'rs what we've been asking for the full game without the pvp issues. but once again rare made the wrong call and turned people away.

Why is the capacity of the server so limited though?

I am a real lore lover and im feeling like its lost we dont get answers like flameheart is back what now?? And so much more

I don’t like how they make you grind for hg , but at the same time nerf flag like da flag for which i had to farm gold, and i miss small details like putting stuff on anchor , new season is boring , need new tall tales , world needs more animals , fishes , world needs to be more alive

I am a fairly new player on PS5. I like the game. The PVP is great and the gameloop is fun. However, not beeing able to purchase anything of value with my gold - just cosmetics, is a bit demotivating. I am still playing, but I think because of the high repetitiveness and lack of motivation to progress, beside of costmetics, it will not be a game a can sink hundreds of hours in.

The only way that Rare can improve this game substantially is by removing it from Xbox one. It should only be on series x/s and PC. That would allow them to make better updates more often and with better mechanics.

Considering that PVE players are the loudest here, probably more and more future content will be for a safer sea, and honestly? At this point, I would rather this turn into a full co-op PVE game.

I haven't played sense 2020 is it worth to go back to. Or should i just buy black flag .

Yo, good video but I would like to add that skull of siren song is an excellent voyage that is a lot of fun to compete in. The fact that the commendations are quickly completed and that it does not count towards guild rep should not matter that much. Don't people play this game to have fun? Why not compete in this voyage for the sheer thrill of it? The event is bloody awesome and the fact that it is losing popularity so fast is at least as much on the community as it is on Rare. When did the motivation to play video games go from having fun to checking boxes and amassing essentially useless in game currency?

Every game that has both PVE and PVP has the same problems. I also play Elder Scrolls Online there we have the same sentiment. There are performance issues for years in PVP areas, problems with balance and lack of content. While for a big part of the community this has been a meh year for sea of thieves, for me and my casual friends this has been an amazing year. Safer Seas makes it so that I can play together again with friends who left after a bad gaming session streak. And I love the Tall Tales. They are hours of newly created and story content this year which gives me more fullfillment than filling bars and a stickerbook of commendations that does nothing mechanical wise to the game. The biggest problem that SOT gets stale after a while, is because Rare has refused to include actual game mechanical upgrades like XP that matters or a skill/specialisation tree, crafting etc. Stuff I would like to see in SOT someday: housing+decoration, map expansion (ice world) even if you have to go through to a portal if servers can't handle it, more story Tall Tales, crafting, new voyages etc

I say all this season stuff is just free icing on the cake. We were never promised any of this when the game first released. I expected paid DLC, but so far everything has been free. Don't forget that this is supposed to be a sandbox game, not a hardcore PVP style shooter. People take it way too seriously, play waaay to hard and fast and then complain there is nothing to do when they're are past 200 in every rep. So yeah, there are going to be delays, so what? Is there not enough already to do? Savor the game.

played yesterday whit my boys had so much fun compare to all games i played whit my friends .