The HORRIFIC State of Sea of Thieves in 2024...
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- Опубликовано: 13 янв 2024
- Sea of Thieves is in the worst state it has ever been in. Lack of updates, lack of content, and lack of effort from the development team are a few of the many reasons as to why this is.
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This article is about the Game. For the location, see The Sea of Thieves.
Sea of Thieves is a first-person multiplayer game developed by Rare and published by Microsoft Studios for Xbox consoles and Windows 10. The game was first playable during Closed Beta in the last part of January 2018. It was fully released on March 20, 2018 as a game for Xbox One and Windows 10, via Microsoft Store, and later became available through Steam on June 3, 2020. It was also one of the earliest first-party games released for Xbox Game Pass subscribers.
As an Xbox Play Anywhere title, the game features cross-platform play between Xbox, Microsoft Store, and Steam. Character, currencies, and progression is synced across platforms using the player's Xbox Live account.
Summary
The Sea of Thieves
Sea of Thieves is a co-op and Player versus Player multiplayer game where players take on the role of Pirates sailing on the open sea looking for Treasure and battling each other. Players can cooperate in up to 4-person Crews or sail alone, picking up Quests and Voyages from various Companies, which generally involve sailing to various Locations to find buried Treasure, transporting various Trade Goods, battling Skeletons or hunting Animals, Fish and other beasts. All this is to earn Gold and Reputation with various Trading Companies to work your way up to becoming a Pirate Legend.
Emergent Gameplay
The game is focused on emergent gameplay. This means that Crews that encounter each other on the seas can choose how to play the game. They can battle it out for each other's gathered Treasure either in Ship to Ship combat by utilising the Ship's Cannons and clever maneuvering tricks or in Close Combat by utilising a variety of Weapons. The other alternative would be to work together in Player Alliances and share all the hard-earned Treasure with all the Ship Crews in the Fleet.
Equal Grounds
Sea of Thieves favours an equal playground where players can excel with their Skills and Wits instead of mechanically favouring the Players who have acquired the most Gold or Reputation. This means that every Pirate starts out with the same Equipment, Weapons and Ships that cannot be improved in any way. The only purpose for gaining Gold or leveling up with the various Trading Companies is to gain visual upgrades to show off your dedication to a certain Style or Faction by wearing themed Cosmetic Sets or showing off your hard earned Titles. To counterbalance this linear progression system, the game likes to keep its mouth shut about as many elements as possible, trusting the players to find out how to use different Tools or Equipment or even how to sail the Ship most efficiently by themselves or through communicating with Crew members or Enemies.
Character Death
The game is fairly forgiving with Player or Ship death, making sure that the players do not lose anything significant that would help them return to the Seas immediately. Instead the Player Crews only chance to lose all the Treasure and Resources that have been gathered during a single Sailing session. The Crew's Ship acts as a portable base, as any players far away from their Ship can find and catch a Mermaid in the seas to return to their Ships. Likewise, once a Player dies, there is a brief window in which they can be revived by other players. If this is not done in time or the player chooses to offer their soul, they will be transported to the Ferry of the Damned for half a minute until they can return to their Ship to try to fight for their loot once more. When a Ship sinks, any Treasure on board will float to the top of the seas for around five minutes until it will sink and the Crew's Ship will spawn at a different location of the Sea of Thieves. Any players who survive the sinking can try to regain the Treasure on a Rowboat or keep it floating or away from other Crews for as long as possible, until the rest of the Crew tries to sail back to it. Any Resources gathered on the Ship during the session will sink with the Ship, however every new Ship will spawn with a handful of Resources ready at the Ship's Barrels. 
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Unfortunately this video didnt age very well, lots of people loving season 11 and although i havnt played much of it myself i do think a lot of there additions/changes are positive. I didnt expect this video to get nearly as many views as it did so i appreciate all of you for watching :)
what do you mean "Unfortunately" aren't you happy the game is doing well???
no, this video is perfectly placed, Sea of Thieves absolutely sucks to play now compared to the beginning which means they have done a horrible job managing it.
@@deckhandzyxSea of Thieves sucked ass at launch. There was nothing to do, the only thing we had was pretty much the Kraken
@@VortFX That's incorrect, we had other player ships, and interacting, playing together or fighting, was what the game was ment to be, we were suppose to create our own adventure! that is what Sea of Thieves is!! an open world pirate adventure PvPvE game!!! everyone playing on safer seas should 1000% uninstall and go play a coop or single player game, because they are ruining Sea of Thieves for the rest of us, who actually loved the game
And it’s gonna b on ps5 now
I've heard people say the phrase "Game is Dead" so many times that at this point it's lost all meaning
Well, its not in a good state - the new season has some meat to it though and will definitely get things busy again.
The game litterally still have 30million monthly players and 200k daily players like wtf its not dead at ALL
@@user-jh4sx6cl5i definitely NOT 200k players a day, that is a lie
@@user-jh4sx6cl5i Tell that to HG queue times and servers with 3 ships.
The game I bet mostly has 50k, and im being generous
it get a LOT of meaming to me
Sea of Thieves youtubers competing to have the worst takes on the game be like:
edit: guys i know the game is in a shitty state trust me (i have 1200 hours on this mess) but all I'm saying is it's not dying. Something can be bad AND still be popular (like Billie Eilish for example)
Bro if it’s still the same as I’m season 9 then it’s bad bro. I’ve played with the same people over the course of multiple days without even adding them because of how few people are on. Also hourglass sucked because there’s no anticheat, would you enjoy being held hostage for 10 minutes while someone calls you the N-word for the whole duration of? Because I can tell you I sure didn’t enjoy it
@@battlecatsubernoob1924ngl I would laugh my ass off lol
Is everyone in the community absolut delusional.
The game didn't bring in any new content for almost 3 seasons, with one of them being the longest season ever.
Rare's vision of content, is here have a new Lvl system but you have to grind with the same stuff you did for the last 5 years.
The server performance goes down with every update, each fixed bug puts at least 3 different new bugs in the game which are even worse than the one they fixed before.
I really wanna play this game, but I can't take a bug almost every 20 min in a 6 year old game.
The 2024 preview sounds really great and I hope they get everything done and even more, so normal basic game feature work, like buying supplies from a merchant without getting scammed.
I love the game and I want it to succeed but in the state Sot is in right now, I can't recommend the game to anyone. But this was different in other times. I brought in so many friends before it got so bad.
And if Arena was unloved buy the devs because they never brought in content to actual motivate people to go in. And how they treat HG without any updates since half a year after release they don't have to wonder why that game mode is dead again
@@timeflow3305 you say there’s alot of bugs so im curious do you play on pc or xbox?
Dude is using steam player count what a moron
"The HORRIFIC State of Sea of Thieves in 2024..."
Literally the next video I get on recommended
"Sea of Thieves as a NEW Player in 2024 is... Insane"
ya the problem is they only focus on new players and neglect there older players to the point where they all quit
@@b1gmass943 As a veteran player, I loved Season 10, the only ones annoyed rn are the PvP only people, which to be fair, they were neglected since the close of Arena and the lack of care in HG, half a year and they only added 4 cosmetics, and they are ready to get when they get to level 100 on Reaper...
@@b1gmass943 it's true for the past 6 years. Time hasn't been respected... Season 11 attempts to attack that problem it's doing well for the most part and makes playing planning and raiding easiest it's ever been. By far the best time to be a player just need more new players.
You can never have enough new players... So cherish them. You get to keep besting them until they test you. All the devs need to do is continue to balance the gold exp levels content grind and respect veterans with long term goals and achievements like season 11 is just the beginning to a mouthful of improvements you won't have enough TIME to grind it all in 1 season.
@@jfoundlove this new update is entirely focused on new players
Your stats at the start are way off. That's just google searches and steam players. It's not indicative of SoT player count at all, considering the bulk are on xbox and game pass. Plus a more accurate statement would be that it's at 30% of it's all time high on steam of 66k players. You also don't take into consideration that the game is at the end of a season right now.
Thank you for actually doing the research
@@Mr.Guybrush for the amount of views it gets on steam i knew it wasnt right, constantly in the top 20
Is has 250k active players on xbox rn.
@@user-jh4sx6cl5i "dead game" looool
Yeah I had a feeling that was off and that was way too low of an estimate.
I find it ironic that the game started declining after Arenas removal, despite only accounting for "2% of playtime". Their excuse was to put more time and resources into adventure.
It's because if they said it wasn't popular enough, it'd make the PvP sweats angry.
and then not doing any adventures after 12... lol
Games issue is nobody wants a fair fight. They want to steamroll kids that have no chance like their favorite streamers promote then get on and realized its basically false advertisement as games only 5 ships a server and wasnt meant to be pvp sweatlord game. Community actually ruined this game.
@@cdeshaw1986 Majority of the players are PvE orientated and never touch the PvP side of this game.
If your getting dunked on in a server, then switch servers, the probability of no one bothering you in adventure is pretty high.
Not only that that you have a whole server dedicated to roleplay as a pirate wimp= Safer Seas.
@@cdeshaw1986 it's a pirate game, I've never encounter this problem, is not that nobody wants a fair fight, is more a thing of idk, 80% of players are bad at PvP and experienced people get bored at PvE, so they attack any ship with loot (cuz pirate)
The biggest problem is that its a multiplayer game, so solo players have no chance competing against a 4 team, and no insentive go play with new people. Its kinda a trend that multiplayer games like this have died off while single player games are at their highest.
Pve / singleplayer games players complaining about pvp titles are the woke cringe fest of the game industry =)))) its like us coming and complaining that Zelda is a shit game for lack of pvp....
They’ve been teasing a big event/step forward for flameheart this year (on the official SoT podcast), saying it will change how the game is fundamentally played etc, as well as the addition of new skeleton cosmetics which the community have been begging for, so should be something to look forward to if they don’t fail to follow through with it👍
Honestly that could be super cool, kinda miss the screaming head in the sky ahaha
Unreal engine 5 will change everything by 2029 SOT will finally add the long awaited Hunters call Update. Which will Turn SOT into not only the best pirate sandbox but a full fledged deep sea hunting RPG expansion and it's massive. Just the looks and presentation alone add so much beauty to the land and seas wildlife. The potential to build on top of the foundations of this game world are insane.
I use to play sea of theives solo. A lot of the experiences I’ve experienced during the few months I did. It was fun collecting treasure and guarding it till I cashed it in. But there’s a lot missing. It felt dry and bland playing it solo and I felt like I needed friends to play it. And I realized the game was just cosmetic collecting. There wasn’t a end game goal other than maybe how much loot can you cash in without someone stealing it. And for that reason is why it was dying to me. No new mechanics to spice it up and the cosmetics aren’t getting better. I just came back to season 11 after not playing since season 8 and the season 11 Battle pass cosmetics look like dry paint. Nothing exciting looking. Add new mechanics or enemies or guns. I’m gonna play for like a week or 2 and get bored again cause there is no real end accomplishment to keep the game exciting.
I think you missed a great opportunity to talk about all the adventure delays AND the tragedy of how the first Mystery involving Demarco and twitter lead to mysteries being completed cancled until we got another over a year later that was mainly used to sell tshirts and boost playercounts twice a month.
the problem is the player base. 95% of normal people have no intentions to compete with sweaty pete.
I just stopped playing because as a casual, I can't get anything done without some sweats rolling up and sinking me just as I finish an event. I get it's called sea of thieves, but the only "thieves" that ever come after me are people who have most likely been playing the game since beta.
@ryanroberts714 yup. It sucks. I already went back to WoW, to be honest. At least I have the option to turn pvp on or off (and there's more to do). safer seas was a good idea but it locks you out of too much content that it's not worth playing at all. I've defended SoT for a long time but now I'm just done with it.
Insider here. Season 11 is bringing some big changes. So it might bring people back.
It may or may not bc there's cheaters on game completely ruined the game for ppl
Yea i hope so 🙏
@@austinclark1001 Yea unfortunately rare havnt taken any steps to help with the cheater problem yet, so your right.
@AltenaYT maybe if rare did something about the cheater issue maybe he will still keep players ok that game
it's really not I have not noticed any changes in insider
I still love it , every session in this game like an adventure
Yep XD
It's more like a chore and the same exact thing again and again lol all for some cosmetics
Anytime a game stops being 100% fun and enjoyment it's time to chill!@@LemonTerps
@@LemonTerpsI’ve been playing since closed beta and I can tell that this game is sinking into the depths slowly
First year of playing this game you probably will see several players ships sailing around and you probably get attacked by some random player with a keg at least 5 times per hour you couldn’t even do a skull fort without 3 ships intervening but now you can do all waves and no one attacks you
I think that if they dont do something HUGE the game will slowly die. The game is just not interesting because the only thing we can get after playing a lot is some damn cosmetic
Yea man i agree, need something big.
Hear me out story takes place in open sea people do stuff risk others will sink you. But do it get gun can only have 2 ammo in it but it's 1 shot 1 kill weapon. But really hard get so fun op weapon unlock. Make go all around seas when get it actually feel deserving job well done. Maybe mix in few old boss some og events boom know reieve game adding thing different double edge where 1 shot kill would be op only hold 2 ammo and got earn it. That I would do go slowly only got 10hrs in so might noobie knows nothing lol
@@monkeyjames9285 dawg imma be completely honest that text is literally unreadable like i can't understand it
@@AltenaYTThe problem that we encountered when playing the game, was that we would go on a mission, me and my friends, find some gold to sell and then so much time has went by that nobody wanted to stick around for another hour to travel back and sell everything...
So we abandoned the game because not because of how much time it takes to do anything - but because you can't really save.
We wanted to go to an island, burry our treasures and come back next day, with time to spend in order to go dig up that treasure and sell it.
But that doesn't exist in the game... So we abandoned it sadly...
Sea of thieves was the reason I finally gave in to playing Star Citizen. At least there you can actually be a real pirate.
Also sea of thieves doesn't allow teams to have a fleet of ships. And it doesn't have commercial ships that pirates can hit and take their stuff.
Its a pirate game without the core mechanics that you would expect from a pirate game...
1) Hit commercial ships
2) Burying your treasure and digging it up some other day
3) Having your own fleet
4) Being able to sleep at some desolate island and start your session there next day
Everything else about the game is AMAZING. It has come a long way and its an amazing experience but without these 4 things... Its just feels different and I can't recommend it to people 😢😢
which makes the risks even higher when the rewards are so low. its not meant for PvP
As a 1,500 Hour player it's been so sad to see my favorite game go, Rare absolutely killed this once masterpiece. I may have started late having picked up the game just before season 1, but up until the end of season 6ish SOT was truly something Amazing. SOT's PVP System may have been broken but that didn't stop me and my friends from dedicating hundreds of hours into becoming an almost unsinkable crew. RIP Sea of Thieves, The Most Fun I've Ever Had in Gaming.
This game will always have a special place in many peoples hearts, and your right it truly is such a shame to witness whats happening.
My dude rare didn’t kill this game you did . I can tell you a PvP person it’s so funny seeing you guys complain now that you see that the PvP community isn’t enough to keep the game going. Keep blaming safer seas when PvP is the reason. you made players not want to play
@@VaDeR173 SOT is no longer the game I first fell in love with. I’m not gonna argue, I just genuinely miss when this game could make me smile.
@@VaDeR173pve servers trash
@@AltenaYT yeah I've got around 1000 hours in it its just dry on content, Microsoft and rare needs to buckle up and start building a sea of thieves 2. with new things to do a new sea to sail and drop it on a new server built for this game only.I love the game but I'm tired of shooting people and getting a hit reg then i die, and I'm tired of the same grind, one or 2 modes every 6 moths isnt working.
It will not let me play is it maintenance or something?
Rare has become incompetent, it took the over a year to develop a guild system which I find extremely odd considering it’s literally just a UI feature.
Rare also mentioned that they want to add the ability to save outfits but that it turned out to be more complex and decided to push it back for a later date, something as simple as that and they can’t even deliver it.
Comparing the updates from Sea of Thieves to Rust is an absolutely horrible take. I've been playing Sea of Thieves since launch day, and I've been playing Rust since 2016. I've read the majority of the Rust Commits since 2018 and have played almost every update. I've played every Sea of Thieves update past the 1 year anniversary.
Comparing Rust updates vs SoT updates is really laughable not just in the genre of game but also the quality of updates. Rust has frequent updates but they are almost always low-quality, half baked, and release with tons of bugs, sometimes even game-breaking bugs that require emergency patches or just straight up disabling features from their updates. It's constant content, sure, but Rust players don't really care. They play, by and large, for the addictive adrenaline rush that is the core progression and raid loop the game offers. It doesn't matter if half the games systems have bugs or genuine flaws, and it really doesn't matter that the content updates are low quality and as of 2023 often packaged as a P2W DLC deal. It's a completely different community, with a completely different development cycle, and wholly different standards for polish.
Sea of Thieves updates take much longer but come with an extremely high standard of polish compared to Rust updates, and also have always been free. Like almost every other game besides Rust, the community has high standards for polish when it comes to game updates. The last time I remember SoT missing the mark on polish for an update was Captaincy, which had a couple server-side bugs on release as well as poor progression balance. And the devs got flamed hard for releasing the update in the state it was in. Sea of Thieves updates usually release with intentionality, few bugs, and a respectable level of polish and quality for a free update.
Compare that to Rust, the devs have disabled global render for the foreseeable future, have most stat pages for items give incorrect information, had a buggy electrical and farming system for years that still hasn't been patched. They released underwater labs in a broken state and left it as "it's a feature now", introduced dozens of P2W skins and items amounting in hundreds of dollars of player investment to purchase and use, created a car system that doesn't align with any other design standards for vehicles in the game and actively destroys themselves if you drive off-road, bugged out the tugboats raid cost by having the doors not always take damage to raid items, and the UX design of the game is incredibly inconsistent depending on what you are doing. Even the industrial update was a hot mess for months after release as the devs were emergency patching bugs and re-designed the way conveyers operate multiple times in 4 weeks post update. Not to mention they have one of the largest cheater populations compared to most other games besides Tarkov I'd say.
But the players simply don't care enough, because the core gameplay loop of Rust is highly addictive for the adrenaline rush competitive gamer where it's all or nothing in a rat-race to the top every week. The server wipes and it's a new experience all over again. SoT doesn't have a wipe experience, doesn't have that kind of community, and I hope never stoops down that low to massively drop update quality in order to always have something new in the game. Rust gets away with it because their updates hardly change anything about the core gameplay loop except sometimes making the players spend money to retain a competitive advantage. It's something most players mess with for a week for fun and then immediately drop. Sea of Thieves updates are all about adding to the core experience all players have to interact with, and if there's issues with the design of certain gameplay features, quests, events, or tall tales it's quickly noticed by players and complained about en mass.
They’re saving the major new updates for season 12 when the game comes to PlayStation. They’re doing these lame “foundational” updates for a few seasons straight to prep the game for the new platform release. Insiders keep saying the season 12 is when we get a ton of new PvP changes with new guns and throwables and all that
Update, I was right
My biggest issue with this game is that there isnt much to do.
Played it wrong then
@@yw997 Lately I've been playing this game solo and just now I realized I've ignored so many things in the game just cause it's not what my crew wants to do at the moment.
I like it now.
All right people it’s keep this game alive If it’s not fun, let’s make it fun.
I'm with you on this.
Im a newcomer, just started playing around the end of season 10. Im in love with the game, completely addicted and can’t stop playing it.
new Engine would be huge for the game.. if we get better performance it could save the game.. as hitreggs and very clunky mechanics and movement.. is one of the biggest problems with the game in my opinion.
So if we got an better engine the game can run on.. that could make the game much more fun to play, I also think the game needs higher amount of ships on the seas.. as right now the map is way too big for just 5 ships.. if you wanna make it feel more alive and lively, we need more ships per server.. but we can't get that as long as they keep using the same engine..
Also.. I don't really feel like safer seas were anything bad for the game.. it does more put players who don't want pvp in an separate server, which makes high seas more pvp focused.. Well at least that's how it should be, but it feels more like the majority of the player base don't want pvp.. and only want pve.
Yea new engine and new dedicated servers would do wonders for this game. If they were able to implement that then it would be pretty easy to increase the amount of ships per server, i believe the only reason as to why it was reduced in the first place was because of server performance, so yea i hope its improved/changed :)
@@AltenaYT I believe the same.. which is why I think we need an new engine to the game to be able to have the amazing game it can be.
@@AltenaYTUnreal Engine 5 underway...
Triple A game pass Exclusive with potential to be used as a Pawn In undermining Sony🤙 There's nothing on the market that comes close
I'm a little late here, but if you guys really want the developers to port the game from UE4 to UE5 or something, then yeah, no, they can't just do that. There are many reasons as to why this is, but one of them is how I don't see them stopping support for last-gen consoles now, especially if they want to ship the game to the next Switch or something. All you can do is wait for a sequel, but Rare don't seem like the type of company to make sequels right now.
@@minewrecked5775 well yea its a bit late.
But what I understood from other people on other youtubers video.. its not the engine that need fixing its the hardware. which seems to be a bit low quality and not really able to keep the game stable all the time.
Well… this sure is bouta change with the new ps5 port 💀
@DotsUpSki Didn't happen with Xbox & PC, why would it with Playstation? 💀
Only if it's truly Crossplay will it succed(imo)
@@ashirrelevent1062 it is
@@ashirrelevent1062 it is crossplay wdym
@ashirrelevent1062 it is crossplay wdym
All games are like that. There is no game that will last forever with max players. New games comes every month and people jumps to them. For example The Finals and Palworld was pretty popular on launch, now they have half of the players they had, maybe less.
2k hours player here. i stopped playing because of hit reg, lag, bad content and many other things. its ad to see what happend to this game. i get so much nistolgia from season six.
I stopped playing when I saw the caps on safer seas:) I don't want pvp in the game! I will spend money on cosmetics and other items as well! I don't mind avoiding it entirely until they add full custom servers with 0 penalty. Rare will never let the pvp or pve players win. reguardless we both lose
i feel you, broken hit reg with weapon shoot&reload feel ridiculous after 5 years of dev...
@@ALISHISNOIUS its crazy man. The removal of quick swapping made me quit
They removed arena but splitted the playerbase again with safer seas 💀
relax . safer seas is for people playing tall tales and parents playing with children . high seas will be full of pvp ready people
But high seas is dead now + they removed quickswap which one of the worste decisions ever @@kalejarmar3187
@@kalejarmar3187 but the cool thing was that you could encounter people NOT ready for pvp. When I was grinding for pirate legend back in the day, getting randomly attacked by other players broke the monotonous questing.
The seas need to have a mix of players and not just pvp players looking for eachother. And not being a pvp player doesnt mean you cant win a fight either.
Safer seas undermines the "pirate" part of the game quite a bit imo as it removes questers from the equation.
Everyone is sailing the same ships so i dont get the need for a safer seas mode. Im garbage at pvp but it's what makes this game imo.
Safer seas player here, only trying to rush through the tall tales. I usually got grieved by other players, now im being grieved by skeleton ships. There’s no winning.
I'm glad for safer seas, because I'm sick of pvpers sinking me for no reason when I just want to fish for an hour with a pretty view. I congratulate them on receiving a bait crate every time. @@tableslayergaming
pretending steam numbers represent the whole community is fucking insane lol
I feel like is the 20% or 30% of the SoT community, and it can be compared to the highs and lows of the game
Nah steam numbers represent about 50-70% of the playerbase. After the ps5 release it represents now 25-35% of the playerbase but after a while it will jump bacm up to 50-70% this game is fundamentally broken at alot of levels and alot of ps5 players will put it down due to constantly getting shit on and the immense amount of bugs that plauge the game. 😊
Could you play offline because I don’t want to buy a subscription
I just dont think that rare understand what players want.. Ive said this before but coming from a guy who hates pvp but loves pirate games, I dont want to be away from other players. I dont want to be in a baby sand pit by myself. I want to be with and around other players.. And i think most people do as well... We just dont want to pvp or get greifed.. Rare I think is totally mismanaging this. you can create a "safe environment" for players and keep them together to keep the servers alive. its easy.. Just give us pve players a flag that makes us immune to pvp damage. that we can only put up or take down at port and give it like a 10 minute cooldown so you cant change flags for a while afterwards. Thats litterally it.. thats all you need. That way. I dont get greifed. I can do everything everyone else can do. I get the same rates. and you keep the risk reward aspect by providing bigger boosts to emmisary flags so theres a bigger incentive to use them at the cost of having to pvp.
Its litterally that easy. You get your active servers. community improves. player counts improve etc etc.. pvp can still pvp and those who dont want have an easy solution to "Opt out" without being seperated from everyone else.
Absolutely agree with you, hit the nail on the head. Hopefully they add a way to get the Hourglass curses through PvE as well.
@@Clown_the_Clown yeah the whole arguement of giving reduced rates on safer seas just because "Its risk/reward only players on the high seas can be pirate lords" is just bizzare.. acting like pirate lord is something more than a thing that people grind out after 2 months anyway. its just pointless gatekeeping and rare come across as just babies that are crying cause players dont want to play with their toys the way that they want them to play. sure they're seeing increased numbers at the moment but i guarentee the numbers would have been even higher without these pointless restrictions. I'd understand if we actually had a system that would give players an advantage but with the rewards being 100% cosmetic who gives a F%$k how fast or how easy people get it? all the experienced players have it already anyway.
I just want the servers to work again but im not seeing anyone talk about the insane lag that has arrived since season 11
it sucks that this game is literally just screwed. It's so obvious the devs have no idea what they need to do to actualyl make it good
The desperately needs progression outside of farming gold and what not for skins.
main prob of sea of thieves is that main point is getin cosmetics instead of upgrading ship with better weapons, upgrading your weapons, free customization of boat, maybe even base building etc...
unless they add like, rank based servers that would just make the pvp for new players horrible
The new preview event Rare just posted has a lot of people hyped for new content now, but I think your video was actually very timely and accurate. A year from now, we will find the exact same cycle you talked about in this video all over again - people will flock back to Sea of Thieves excited to try out the new stuff in the latest updates, then they will run out of things to do after a couple weeks and quit the game again.
As a software engineer myself I also found it distressing how Rare talked about their future plans to address the core gameplay issues that you mentioned in your video - they're going to make it the sole responsibility of one team to just fix all the game's bugs... This is almost certainly not going to work, and really speaks to their lack of development resources when they essentially just openly admitted that their developers are incapable of delivering new features on time with high quality, and that they have knowingly been sacrificing quality to deliver new features on schedule.
Man, this video screams of "wanting attention", right down to the fake tweet, sweet lord.
he not lying tho. many streamers have already complained similar things and some have quit streaming SOT entirely
Most of the problems you are listing for the game being unplayable for long amounts of times arent the reason the game is "dying". You demand more content while at the same time demanding the same devs to fix issues like hitreg and unless Rare gets more developers you cant have both. New content is often aimed at newer players 80% of which quit the game within hours and clearly Rares attempts to give you pvp content arent or werent very popular to the average player (arena, siren song, hourglass). I myself have my problems with recent updates mainly how long season 10 took. Season 11 is a great season and marks the start of more content focused seasons making the state of SoT 2024 anything but horrific.
I've never wanted Arena to return more than I do now. I wish Rare wouldn't have given up on Arena.
Honestly i started playing the game 2 months ago. I got pirate legend super quick, but after getting it, the game felt pretty dry. I eventually started my hunt to get the Legendary Kracken hunter, which didnt take long. Now im in search of the Shrouded. I always was a solo slooper so id like to see more updates for those who dont have friends lol.
Yea more solo updates would be cool, Ive had the legendary shark twice hahaha, pretty damn lucky.
I recommend going for the Hourglass curses since no matter how good/bad you are at PvP, by the time you reach lvl 100 & 200 in either faction you’ll be leaps and bounds better than before, which honestly makes the rest of the game more fun in general as a solo sloop (have always been a solo sloop except for when I first started in 2018), since you can fairly successfully hunt other players for quick gold or confidently defend stacks & world events without sinking all the time👍
My current goal is the shroud. So I might be on this game a very long time.
I'm pretty sure they are going to have some sort of pirate legend+ for maxing out most of the trading companies and a pirate legend++ for maxing out all trading companies. There's already basically a pirate legend+ for doing well at the hourglass PVP.
I was having a fun time for about a week then some no life kept boarding our gallon one shorting everyone wouldn’t sink respawned faster then us and camped and it was so bs I quit again
0:22 you realize thats just Steam players? 🤦♂️
Their focusing souly on new players because sea of thieves will shortly be on Play Station.
They’re most likely going to increase the rep levels and turn it into distinctions like the guild leveling system which I’m not sure is good or not
New players are always good. Raising the grind is always good. Sot needs to be able to stand as a fully functioning and finished product to be purchased and played by Sony players.
Then and only then do you drop SOT 2 on Unreal Engine 5 Game pass Exclusive Only
Pulling away Sony players
@@jfoundlove I completely agree.
So they’ve now increased the levels but let’s face it there’s no point going over level 100 as the rewards are only rings lol
@@PirateJamm There's definitely a point too do so when you have nothing else to do. Hopefully they add more but right now I think they've added enough to keep many old and especially new players busy for a while
i cant tell you they will never add gunss or weapons that give you a upper hand that cost money
"Peak players is 0.5% of launch". No shit?? It had an enormous launch!!! It has like twice as many players as a whole bunch of brand new games!
Devs don’t understand content and something new to do isn’t another recolor to grind 50 or more events for
Yea 100%, need something beneficial to the game and to the playerbase or whats the point.
Worst servers I have played games on since 1999. There is so much latency sometimes you can't even see your enemy much less get enough frames of them to take a decent shot. Maybe if you live in the city hosting the servers but its awful. And the game is starting to look like the Vegas Strip with all the meaningless event markers.
I’m still sad almost half a year later because of the removal of the only skillful and fun part of sot😢
With it releasing on PlayStation I think a lot of new players will be on the game including me😮
How can pretending to be pirates on an open sea ever get boring
And they still managed to make it boring, truly masters of their craft.
Me personally I like the idea of it and I have had a lot of fun but at some point it starts to feel like a chore.
No meaningful progression at all. I don't need no treasure if the only thing I can buy is a pair of colorful pants or a new texture on my sail.
To be completely honest some may be optimistic about the games revival in the future but I just don’t know if I see it happening, one can only dream tho 😢 good vid!
This season has been pretty bad. But at the very least it isn't going to be as long as season 9. Im hopeful for the future of the game.
Yea season 9 was way way way too long, am personally excited for season 11 :)
They held there promise to 3month season
So far so good this year is going in the right direction
see yall in the next few months for another "game dead" video by altena
on god see you then
@@AltenaYT so how are you liking season 11?
emissary hunting is back bb!
as a veteran, i want to say that the main thing that got me always coming back was the pvp, i loved every aspect of it, however the devs always patched the cool 'exploits' and techniques constantly reducing the skill ceiling. making all my hard work and effort trying to get good mean nothing, especially when i can lose to some day one pirate with a sword, it is demotivating
All we need is more players in one server
2018/19 sot, the grind, the fun times, the memes, the fear when you get krakened. Now it's just.... not the same
Im still waiting for AI crews to be able to solo a galleon
i can tell you the main 100% cause of why this game is dead, its actually a combination of two things.
Rare's development team giving absolutely zero fucks about all the game-breaking glitches, and never actually FIXING ANYTHING.
And Rare's incapability to understand the most basic concept of ban evasion counter-measures, they brag about banning 7000+ accounts for cheating.
but the trouble is, those 7000+ accounts mean absolutely NOTHING,
because you know what counter-measures Rare has in place to prevent those cheaters from switching to an alt account and continuing cheating?
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
They don't hardware ban cheaters.
They don't IP ban cheaters.
They don't ban Steam IDs linked to Xbox accounts that've been banned for cheating.
In fact, they've done quite the opposite, they've facilitated the cheaters,
because neither Rare or Microsoft monitor which steam ids are linked to which Microsoft accounts,
Buying the game on steam effectively guarantees you an infinite supply of free alts.
These cheaters don't care about cosmetics, they don't care about ship skins.
ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS MAKING THE AVERAGE PLAYER'S LIFE A LIVING HELL,
AND RARE JUST SITS THERE WITH THEIR HEADS CRAMMED SO FAR UP THEIR ASSES THAT THEY CAN'T EVEN SMELL THE SHIT THEY'VE DEALT US.
they won't even lift a finger to do a thing about the problem, but instead keep force feeding us LIES and FALSE PROMISES.
i have said this before on a different video the game needs new servers overal first it can fix alot of problems that is has
You should have left them cook, now you can sing the "I was wrong Song"
I no longer play because the game is filled with a insane amount of players .. We were some of the best crew ever back then but now the game has become more and more popular wich was ok back then but it also attracted hackers .. and now with Sea of friends offline mode made the game with PVP even more prone to get hackers ! Its just insane Either glitch users and straight up aimbots players even streaming and so on yet not banned !
I agree, as for someone who’s played the game for over 1500 hours, my mates and I find the new updates so boring. Especially when they reuse enemies and bosses that you’ve fought against. Barely any content whatsoever.
Personally I believe the way to go for SOT is to add a progression system which allows players to customise their combat experience. For example, being able to earn different sails which have their benefits and flaws (eg a sail that decreases maximum speed but allows for sharper turns). Things like these that’ll help make the player WANT to grinde for cool new equipments that they can change on their ship and pirate loadout.
"sails that decreases maximum speed but allows faster turns" LOL just rise your sails up a bit
i disagree, one of the best parts of SOT is that nothing in the game can give you a competitive advatnage. its mostly cosmetic which makes it fun and better for worse/newer players
Playing a ton recently, meeting a ton of new players from PS5 and finding pvp and co-op every time I log on
I mean season 11 is bringing the biggest changes
My problem with sot is: pvp content didnt got enough love in the first years, its lifeless because npc just standing around instead of long scripted animations all the way through a tall tale or on isles. The seas needs to be bigger with much more isles to explore and more cosmetics to find. Variations of ships missing imo. The game itself is in a good state with good content but ppl just dont are good in pvp so they want to play for themselfs and loosing all ( in a pirate game btw ) is to much to handle for snowflakes that didnt learn that its just a game that you have to practise. Its just like real life and ppl cant handle loosing over and over again
While whatching the video i thought how cool would it be to have sn own island to come back to where you can keeo thibga like wood and they adf a crafting feature so you can build your own base until its a fort or something. Where you can build cosmetics and maybe even some things that gives you advantages for your ship like ships getting a bit faster or weapons getting better
Safer seas made me never want to play again
Almost like the only thing to grind for is cosmetics that all look like neon sea shells.
Just imagine if you coulc unlock new, better gear, but no. Same shit, they expect you to repeat the same loop endlessly.
Maybe thats why its Dead. Because theres nothing of actual value worth playing for.
This isnt aging well considering the love for season 11.
If they could just like pump in minor updates every week or just major updates every month maybe that would help keep the game actually afloat
Hackers are killing the game i run into them every time I play
still waiting on pve everything
Removing quick swap and adding ugly hitmarkers ruined the game for me
I know this is just done in jest, and its honour to be clickbait 😂. But can I kindly ask you to change the thumbnail, as I never said that.
Sorry man 😂 i’m not home right now i’ll change it in a couple of hours, sorry about that!
@@AltenaYTdont lol
well this game came out a while ago, the fact that it still has a pretty big community of dedicated players proves that the game didn't die. Of course less people are going to play older games, it happens with most games, doesn't mean the game is dying. Its not like they're on a steady decline. They've had lower periods in the past but its always fluctuating.
Also they need to put more players on one server because the oceans feel empty as fuck
fr my ass could sail around the whole ass map for 5hours without even seeing a singel soul
Its one of the reasons im hesitant on picking it up again. Last few sessions I did I encountered 0 players. Not even a si gle sail on the horizon except for skelly ships.
5 total ships allowed on a server. Most of the player base right now (I’d say around 3/5 to 4/5 of the ships on any given server) are long-term dedicated players (like me, a year-one player), with VERY few ships being newer players from my experience. What that means is that most of these ships are only doing a handful of activities on the seas (the most lucrative ones) with most of the other activities being left alone or just completely forgotten about (Me being a part of the small exception, I mostly just fish nowadays 😂). If you want to come across other ships as a new player, the best method is to either start the fort of the damned, or find a fleet/fort of fortune. The issue here is that, in the scenarios I just gave, the other ships you’re going to come across aren’t usually the friendliest bunch, and they most likely are going to have a LOT more experience than you… so do with that information what you will. The only other real options for finding other ships is the last stage of the veil (which you have to be a pirate legend to start) or going into the cheater-ridden horror which is the sorry state of hourglass right now. Arena was a better pvp mode than hourglass for sure. But either one is going to be awful if they don’t find a fix for the cheating problem.
I have 1300 hours in this game, and from what I’ve noticed, since they removed arena the game basically fell off.
nice video but why so many woosh sound effects
When you get the achievement that you put your sails with the wind and see how many players have accomplished that lol
I think Sot cant hold players that return because the returning players are quickly reminded of all the broken things in the game that will seemingly never be fixed. Long black screens, hard crashes, hit reg, weird bugs etc. Youre right.
Because took them 6 years to make them PVE but still fucked that too.
i started playng this game in 2023 and i have to say it was beautifull after 6 years of being alive his time has arrived
Root problems: Skins being “progression,” and the boring gameplay loop.
Cosmetics are not progression and no matter what you’ll always be bored after doing the same things over and over for no progression in gameplay.
After I unlock a skin, why should I ever need to do anything ever again?
There’s no GAMEPLAY progression. That’s why it’ll always be boring.
As a nice as being able to grind for stuff like better weapon or more powerful ships would be, it would ruin the balance of the game and just make it way more difficult for new players getting into the game because all the current players would already have all the best stuff. Sea of thieves is great because everyone is on the same playing field, but I agree we need something alittle more substantial to grind towards
Thoughts on Season 11 and beyond? It's a good season for change.
But the game is now coming to ps5 so how is it dying
I’m actually gonna get into it for the first time this weekend. My younger brother loves the game and has been playing for about 2 years. Finally got a storage upgrade for my computer for the 103gb it needs to download
My friends would still be playing if it was easier to get 2 crews of friends together on a server. It's no so much about the PvP, but grinding would be waaaaay more fun.
They should add hunters call curse and quests, not enough reason to do it really unless you like the unlockable cosmetics
looking at steam charts to see how many people play this game is like looking at the stats of how many people play Chess without the actual board
cause in the end you are never gonna get the correct answers
Valid point, but what other numbers do you suggest I go off of?
Hmm well you cant best you can do is experience the state of the game through playing on XBOx and Pc @@AltenaYT
In the end you guys are worried about what the gold can buy and you guys are complaining about only being able to buy cosmetics
but that's not the true prize of getting the treasure. The true prize is the adventure and the fun you had on the way and discovering new things
So don't give up on sea of thieves just yet
New players don't mean THAT MUCH. This game has the game pass function, many in-app purchases, does collabs and advertising, has merch and whatnot. It's not going to die if it doesn't get that many new players. It's not going to stop making money. If it keeps making a profit - it won't die because updates and whatnot will keep coming to keep loyal players at least. I just described the worst case scenario for the game.... Because in reality many players are coming back and many new players are joining still.
I stopped playing when they added safer seas, at the same time they took away our instant double gunning and gave the ships instant travel. They are focusing on PvE friendly content and easing players away from open PvP. Perhaps some day a game developer will make a pirate game. Sea of Thieves should just change it's name to Sea of PvE Adventures.
I’ve been playing since the alpha tests and I went from looking forward to hearing about the next update to being legitimately scared and dredding their changes. Trying to play as much as I can now to enjoy the game as much as I can, while I still can but it’s an uphill battle that’s being lost. The game will be only be good for short term casuals by the end of 2024 if they don’t do something
You'll be back for SOT 2 alpha tester and you'll be so excited to talk about how great the game is despite the highs and lows
they just need to allow dedicated servers, all these games survive on private communities. people want to tailor their gaming experiences
Started playing last week and I love this game.
only because you're clueless
Sea of thieves is an amazing game and IS NOT DEAD idk why you guys keep saying it's dead because it's not also I can ask anyone I know that knows the game if its a good game or not and they will most definitely say yes
In my opinion I just want more gold uses because all you can buy really is just some cool ship cosmetics which just change the colour and sails and stuff of your ship
After season 11 I strongly disagree with this. I think season 11 was a major comeback for this game, adding new motivation for veteran players, new loot, improving a system we’ve been asking for since the dawn of time, and giving us fun, interesting, and viable new quests. I’ve had a blast playing this game since Season 11 dropped.
Community could be better, split loot or something. Looks like it’s gone downhill since last time I played it yet then again it was filled with salty sot players that would attack you for no reason or just to steal the loot your spent so long on collecting
It needs base building and a more open world so you can emerge yourself in the world.
I loved Sea of thieves, I only wish we actually had content, 2y without any tall tale, no new monsters "new events" that are just recolor of old ones..