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Sea of Thieves Closed Beta Summary - 314k Total Players, 269K Concurrent Views on Twitch, 2m Hours
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I was super surprised by the beta and the reception, i thought it was a total risk but man the sandbox is so much fun.
It's gona be a long two months to the game, it's a really interesting approach too, a level playing field, not overly gamified with menus and meters.
Can't wait to play, all my crew are game passing up to play it.
It's gona be a long two months to the game, it's a really interesting approach too, a level playing field, not overly gamified with menus and meters.
Can't wait to play, all my crew are game passing up to play it.
The beta was that kind of MP experience that made you beg for more. I played Monster Hunter over the weekend and all I could think about what that Sea of Thieves beta
The beta was really fun, and the hype seems all over the place between Twitch, Mixer, forums, etc.. With the Game Pass inclusion, a healthy playerbase is practically guaranteed, and if Rare keeps the content coming for years it could be one of those "everlasting" games, not unlike Minecraft or Rocket League - mind you, not as big, but similarly easy to just jump back to from time to time. Great game and great to see something so different work so well, looking forward to release date.
Quite interesting that the sloop is substantially more popular than the galleon. Also quite interesting to see that the player count is fairly low relative to the stratospheric numbers on Twitch. It suggests there's a lot of people still out there, excited for the game, but that haven't played it. Lots of room to grow :)
It was a closed beta after all. A lot of people got invited, plus pre-orders, Game Pass, contests, etc., but not everyone could check it out on their own - and, of course, not everyone owns an Xbox or PC. But the numbers are crazy huge to be fair, not that Sea Of Thieves will sell consoles like Halo 3 back then, but I can see a lot of people willing to shell out 200$ or so to get a cheap S to get sailin' and lootin'.
Best thing I've played in years. Just fun through and through.
March 20th is SO FAR AWAY IT HURTS.
March 20th is SO FAR AWAY IT HURTS.
I pretty much never use a mic in online games but Sea of Thieves is the one exception. People without mics kind of ruin the experience TBH, in my adventures as a friendly pirate I noticed that people without mics would almost always kill me on sight whereas people with them would generally be open to teaming up.
dude tell me about it
if I didn't have monster hunter world right now I'd seriously be investing in cryogenically freezing myself
Wonder if an Open Beta could crack a million. Anyway, it's a good early sign that they may do all right in terms of sales.
Nice.
I loved playing the game with a group of friends, but really didn't get into watching it on Twitch. I found it very boring to watch, even though it was quite popular there. Am I the only one to think this?
I loved playing the game with a group of friends, but really didn't get into watching it on Twitch. I found it very boring to watch, even though it was quite popular there. Am I the only one to think this?
The closed beta client had an 8GB update today - likely for ongoing pioneer testing sessions (I don't have access) but perhaps they are priming it for an open beta?
Would be nice!
Would be nice!
I'm sure I read that they were trying to get it to run on low spec PCs so that could be an option for you?
Tbh it's the kind of social game that mostly makes sense to play, not to watch, given you're not really exploring stories but you're building your own. You go around with your crew, loot, fight, drink, explore... unless there's a crazy entertaining streamer, or some very specific activity like roleplaying, I don't think it's particularly exciting to watch. Then again, a lot of people did just that, so I guess there's something people love to see?
It's probably the incredible waves.
Maybe because of closed beta, but not even 1 mil players for a beta? I don't know it sounds good or ...
It's a $60 game, multiplayer, available only on computers with Windows 10 or on Xbox One. It's pretty good.
I don't have a crew of friends to play this with, so watching streams of personalities like polygon, giant bomb, or even some twitch people mess around was neat.
Very happy for Rare, I hope this sells like gangbusters I will be there day one, can't wait for Jez article on the real game, he was so hyped on Twitter, he went from concerned about the content in the beta to a cheerleader over night after playing the full game with the other media... I'm stoked to try something different
I feel like I would gladly watch an edited "top moments" video, but otherwise it's a lot of busy work if you are not playing. It could work for some passive stream watching, I guess
That means you'd need to have over a million pre-orders and insiders. Highly unlikely for a non COD/ destiny battlefront type game and especially a new IP
Nice to see it doing decent during the closed beta and I'm really awaiting the release after the few hours I spent in their world.
When I tried the alpha, the first thing I did after five minutes was to order an headphone with a mic. Haven't play with chat with randoms since forever.
Not 'maybe' but 'absolutely' because of closed beta. And the game had no hype beforehand, nothing but negativity.
Pleased to see such a fresh and unique game get such success at this stage. With inclusion on Game Pass it should be pretty huge.
Not bad. Curious to see how it translates to the full game. Before the beta I didn't think it had a chance to have an impact (was actually worried for Rares future), but after seeing the viewers on Twitch I'm a little more confident that the game will be well received.
Sorry, saw one guy on twitter say that most people quit after an hour. Gona go with that.
If you have a PC, even a "potato" PC you could still play it! Rare worked hard to make sure any PC (pending it's on Win10) can play the game
I only watched the Giant Bomb video and it really reminded me of No Man's Sky in that the player progression seemed really shallow. If they just put in some kind of leveling up system with skill trees for your character and give you XP for beating enemies, finding treasure and completing quests it would feel better for me.
At least I'll probably be able to get my fill with a free trial of Game Pass.
At least I'll probably be able to get my fill with a free trial of Game Pass.
314k players doesn't seem like a lot? For Honors closed Alpha had more than 6 million players, and Gran Turismo Sports closed Beta had over 1 million players. It will be interesting to see how it sells as it seems like there is definitely some interest there, but the scale and size of that interest is harder to gauge.
There will not be skill trees and the leveling is purely faction based. It's just not that kind of game, they don't want barriers between you and friends or anything other than a natural skill gap between enemies.
Didn't you need a pre-order to get beta access? I didn't bother pre-ordering since the game pass news.