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Xbox, PC, and Steam players considered. Big number that will surely grow by a couple million with the addition of PS5, too.
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Sea of Thieves has had over 40 Million Players
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View: https://x.com/seaofthieves/status/1780619786646348264?s=46&t=gf8rfJgiXtRzEKTUzSF5Yw
Xbox, PC, and Steam players considered. Big number that will surely grow by a couple million with the addition of PS5, too.
Last update was in February and said "more than 35 million" players, so within two months that's an improvement of up to 5 million new players. Seems like the announcement of the PS5 port really started bringing in more players
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Sea of Thieves has over 35 million players Sales - Microsoft
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2024/02/21/new-platforms-new-players-xbox-games-switch-playstation/
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I'll never forget the E3 when SoT and Skull and Bones were both revealed, and Griffin McElroy saying "when the Sea of Thieves developers saw Skull and Bones they must have been shitting their pants."
That's fucking bonkers. So happy for the team. Since I didn't have an Xbox, I was only paying attention to the launch period and recall it was kind of rocky? Eitherway congrats to the team.
Say what you will about the Xbox crew, but they know how to fix rocky releases. TESO, Fallout 76, State of Decay 2, Master Chief Collection, Sea of Thieves, etc.
The game is quite good now. Finally got a few friends to play and we put in a good 70ish hours last year on it. I recommend to all the PS players.
More proof that you can start off with an under-70 on Metacritic and still turn into one of the biggest games out there.
Played it a couple hours with 4 people and was very underwhelmed. Outside of the water looking fantastic there wasn't much there.
I played this at launch and was severely disappointed by it. Has it really improved so much that it's worth getting back into?
My issues were:
- Nothing to really do, game was too repetitive. Just travel to location, pick up treasure, travel back to town. Repeat endlessly. I played for like 10 hours and never encountered anything interesting.
- Ships didn't feel like they mattered. They felt too disposable. I know you can't really strand someone at sea and have the game be fun but ships just respawning felt like a let down. What's the benefit of actually BEING a pirate and attacking someone?
- For that matter, what is the benefit of the online at all? There felt like a lack of meaningful online mechanics.
Not trying to insult the game here. Clearly people liked it more than me. But what changes or evolutions have been made in the years since? Is there any reason for me to jump back in and give it another try?
My issues were:
- Nothing to really do, game was too repetitive. Just travel to location, pick up treasure, travel back to town. Repeat endlessly. I played for like 10 hours and never encountered anything interesting.
- Ships didn't feel like they mattered. They felt too disposable. I know you can't really strand someone at sea and have the game be fun but ships just respawning felt like a let down. What's the benefit of actually BEING a pirate and attacking someone?
- For that matter, what is the benefit of the online at all? There felt like a lack of meaningful online mechanics.
Not trying to insult the game here. Clearly people liked it more than me. But what changes or evolutions have been made in the years since? Is there any reason for me to jump back in and give it another try?
Try it again. The amount of stuff they've added since is great.
Then I'd have to disagree. With all the campaigns and story missions there's enough to do. Even for players who aren't into the 'make your own fun' open sandbox the game is built on.
I played with a friend for a time. Great game and really unique. Im really happy a game like this is a success.
The core gameplay is still mostly the same, just with more activities, some story quests, and some recent QoL that I havent given a shot. The benefit of multiplayer is the danger it brings, carrying lots of treasure paints a target on your back, just the same as it does other players you could potentially steal from. Without that danger a lot of the appeal of the game wears off. Now theres no reason to go back to town immediately after getting a big haul since theres no danger of leaving it on your ship for example.
I tried it recently, solo as none of my friends had any interest - it was ok, but obviously meant to be enjoyed as part of a pirate crew so it was a slightly lonely, fiddly experience. Lovely water though.
There should be no argument. It is far and above more popular. I mean it has more players than the entire N64 or SNES install bases.
We did one of those. It was a 4 1/2 hour slog sailing to two or three islands and digging up bottles then you get to the end and you had to kill some gold skeletons while they stand in water or someone throws water on them. We got some gold and a skin for the accordion or something that did nothing. So we went back to Grounded.
A better argument would be if SoT has/can outsold all their previous games put together
For real. For every infamously bad launch they have for GaaS games, they almost always right the ship….eventually .It may not be as quickly as one would hope, but it's encouraging to see the level of investment they've made with Halo Infinite, SoT, FO76, SoD2, all the Forza titles, etc.
Sea of Thieves going to clear 50M players by this time next year, truly incredible considering how it launched. It's so unique
It almost definitely has. Steam alone probably has it as their best selling game of all time
I'd like for server to have more people so the chances for combat or whatever were higher, other than that, the game is very very fun.
It wasn't the same E3. SoT was revealed at E3 2015 and Skull & Bones was E3 2017. But yes, lots of people thought Skull & Bones would kill SoT and cause the death of Rare.
Needless to say........It's why I'm never listening to people on the internet ever again lol
SoT is an odd case. We know the exact player count for SoT but not the exact sales numbers. For all Rare games that came out before SoT, it's the opposite where we know their exact sales numbers (in most cases) but we don't know the exact number of people that have played them.
I'd really love it if MS and Rare could finally show us the sales numbers for SoT across all platforms. I don't understand why they're not revealing the numbers to this day. I assume it's a big number, so it's not like they have anything to be embarrassed about.
The N64 sold about 32 million units or so, but that means the install base must've been much higher as it doesn't account for how many people that didn't actually pay for the console played on it. DKC and Goldeneye sold 9 million and 8 million respectively, but I'm sure much, much more than 8-9 million people played those games over the years. But yes, at 40 million, it's certainly possible that SoT might have the highest player count of any Rare game ever made, but it's hard to know for certain.
If you play SoT and only do a straight mission and nothing else happens then ya it can be boring. The best part of the game is the stuff that happens you didn't plan on doing. I always treat missions as the bare minimum, they're just there to give you reason to go out and give you an initial heading. Don't be afraid to be side tracked or even go on the offensive against other players or even be friendly, that's when crazy stuff happens.
Funny when people continue to say MS let Rare die and they haven't made anything worthwhile since. Congrats Rare.
They've never stopped making good, quality games with the exception of PDZ campaign (multiplayer was fire, though!). It's just that none of them were selling incredibly well compared to their past stuff, with the exception of Kinect Sports 1&2 and Sea of Thieves.
Anyway, happy that Sea of Thieves has been so successful and likely will continue to be for many years to come. Can't wait to see what Everwild is and how well it does.
I wonder how many years of life SoT has left in it? Didn't Rare plan for the game to be a 10 year project? So that would mean they plan to support it for at least another 4 years. I could easily see it exceeding the 10 year mark at the rate it's going.