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Sea of Thieves grows to over 5 million players (E3 4 million)
- Thread starter JINX
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Read more here: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2018/07/31/sot-cursed-sails-available-now/
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I wouldn't expect it. You can guess player retention rate however.
Unlikely. I wonder if trying out Game Pass for 14-days, and then downloading Sea of Thieves, and later cancelling Game Pass...does it count?
If so, I were a MSFT shareholder, I would be upset.
I doubt it. It's essentially irrelevant with Game Pass being a factor.
I'm more interested in how many active players there are.
Gamepass obfusticates what would be an otherwise amazing figure.
Gamepass obfusticates what would be an otherwise amazing figure.
No, because the actual sales don't draw the complete picture (Game Pass and in future streaming).
No but we will also never see a thread asking for sales so at least everyone involved is bothered ;-)
I would assume these numbers are the amounts of people who tried the game since release. So in that case the number would never go down. Anecdotally speaking, the streamers that still play it from time to time make it seem like its a dead game, as in there was no contact with any other ship crew for a 5-8 hour stream.
The number has gone up a million in a month. It's not like it hit 5 million at launch and now nobody is playing it.
If you're an MSFT shareholder, it's pretty unlikely you are upset right about now.
I want to be respectful, because it's possible that happened, but this sounds like nonsense even conceptually. With the way the instances are handled, what you're suggesting would necessarily mean fewer than 20 total players. I've played dozens of hours over the last month or so, and low population has never come up. Considering the data we have from player count is that there are a million new players just since E3, this goes far enough to call preposterous.
So it's either a digital sale, a physical sale or a gamepass subscription. Or a combination of that and still, a million is a million. I don't see anything negative considering the jump in players.
Really?
Microsoft Stock is looking pretty good these days.
106.32/share sounds good to me!
People still holding onto sales eh. Lol. It's gotten 1 million new players to try the game either through sale or through gamepass. I guess there's still millions of people who haven't tried gamepass. I guess at this pace they'll catch up to all the people who have Xboxes huh? I swear some folks really want this game to "die" or something. It's a good game, just not for you. Good for Rare.
Not unless they make it onto charts, which this hasn't since its second month.
Even if it charted every single month they won't give out sales numbers so not sure what you're trying to imply other than your usual negative snarky comment?
Well, Game Pass was significantly discounted recently, so MS is obviously losing money on it. I'm not sure how they'll explain that move to shareholders, but whatever rocks their boat, right?
On a serious note, great news for Sea of Thieves. It's a lovely game, and it's good to see it continue growing in every way.
It was actually back in the top spot in the UK just a couple of weeks ago. Those suckers must have spent their Game Pass trials on State of Decay 2.
If it charted every month we could do basic math and add it up :)
Yes I see in your link it was due to new hardware bundles.
Is it surprising? New people are starting their Game Pass subs all the time and Sea of Thieves is among the first games recommended to play.
You can guess anything, really.
Really happy for Rare. This game is a ton of fun. Definitely need to play with friends though.
When was the last time MS gave details on sales data?..we don't even know FH3 current numbers but we know that game was very successful for MS&PG Games yet somehow same users keep asking for these data in every thread about the success of SoT and SoD2, at this point its almost like they got some agenda. Lol
Anyway, congrats Rare.. glad to see them continuously putting out these updates.they've also been hiring a lot lately, I'm guessing for SoT and their rumored new IP.
Anyway, congrats Rare.. glad to see them continuously putting out these updates.they've also been hiring a lot lately, I'm guessing for SoT and their rumored new IP.
It's based on the fact that we rarely got sales figures from Microsoft before their big new IPs made it to Game Pass. So, it's not about wanting the game to die, it's about people wanting to know how well the game is actually doing.
Would it actually be possible for the number to decrease? I thought if you ever played the game once, you are counted forever.
The fact they've stopped giving these numbers is old news at this point so why do same users keep asking about them over and over again in every thread? It's not like MS answered them the first 20 times they asked.