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Rare Says It "Learned a Lot" From Sea of Thieves's Organic Growth

Sea of Thieves continues to grow as Rare looks toward Everwild.

lelo2play1374d ago

What's surprising to me is that since Sea of Thieves released on Steam, it's been on the best sellers list. Didn't know the game was this popular...

timotim1374d ago

SoT has risen above and out of the box they tried to put it in. It is Rare's most successful game to date...more than any game they have done under Nintendo.

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timotim1374d ago

Everything I said is 100% factual though. I got no problem with someone being a fan of something. I said what I said without bashing anyone or lying...thats a W in my book. If you dont like what Ive said, it says more about you than anything else...

Tacoboto1374d ago

15 million players, and 1 million units sold through Steam alone in the last few months.

It started as an example of GaaS failures. It's one of MS' most engaged titles now. It's not my cup of tea, but I think this game's story is a good example of the "creative freedom" MS studios have now.

Looper1374d ago

Hope one of those things is not to launch an incomplete game...
I'm going to lay the fault at Microsoft's feet for that. They rushed Rare so Gamepass could have its first first party game to launch on day one.

I'm a bit bummed that Everwild isn't a single player game though. I have MP fatigue. It does look pretty good though.

moriarty18891374d ago (Edited 1374d ago )

yeah it seems Rare has forgotten how to make a sp offline game. Everwild will be a sot clone. its all so people have to sign up for gold or gamepass to play these mp only games. that's all ms wants anymore unfortunately.

Kavorklestein1374d ago (Edited 1374d ago )

So if the rumors are true, and MS gets rid of the XBL paywall, and Sony keeps the paywall, then what will you be saying?
Also, using the games to compell people to sign up for a subscription, sounds kinda similar to using exclusives to sell a console.

The companies are businesses after all. So sorry, can you remind me what the big deal is?

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itsmebryan1374d ago

Looper do you have any proof that MS rushed the launch? The same can be said about GTS now that was an incomplete game that took a long time to get together and still has less content than Forza 5 that was a launch title almost 7 yrs ago.

We don't know developers plans. Maybe they want to put something out and take time to add to and tweak it. Both games said they would have updates at launch and don't charge for the updates. So, what's the problem?

gamer78041374d ago

I hope they learned coop...

Sciurus_vulgaris1374d ago

I would like Rare to return to doing non live service games. Everwild looks interesting, but not much about the game has been revealed. Maybe tomorrow we’ll learn more about Everwild.

King_Noctis1374d ago

They are developing the new Battletoad though.

Sciurus_vulgaris1374d ago

Rare is not the lead Developer of the Battletoads Reboot. They’re assisting and supervising Dlala Studios. Rare has roughly 200 employees, and the studio has a history of working on several projects at once.

FlavorLav011374d ago

What? How to polish a game up to snuff a year+ after release? Enjoyable as it is now, it did launch missing significant content and with a kraken boss battle missing its entire body, just a bunch of giant tentacles. Lol. 1st impressions mean a lot to me, once you’re put in the back log there’s no telling if I’ll have time to make it back...

Kerppamaister1374d ago

You know you can learn just as much by making a mistake as you can by doing things right? They made a booboo with SoT launch and learned from it.

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Steam’s Refund Policy Change Won’t Affect You Unless You’re A Lowlife

Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected

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thorstein8h ago

Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.

fsfsxii4h ago

Pc gamers will take this as an excuse to pirate things

KyRo3h ago

I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol

Crows903h ago

Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.

qalpha4h ago

Daily reminder that 'TheGamer' is a corporate-generated, anti-gamer, anti-consumer, clickbait web site. They are mostly A.I. generated articles that villainize gamers. They provide nothing positive and actively try to provoke and divide the community through extreme view points and politics. Do not give them any clicks.

Inverno4h ago

Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?

DustMan3h ago

You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.

Inverno3h ago

Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.

Gaming4Life19813h ago

I definitely know if I want a refund in 2 hours.

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Media Molecule’s Next Game is Going to be a New IP

A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.

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Inverno23h ago

The only PlayStation dev I care about tbh.

Inverno4h ago

Dayum did I hit a nerve. Sorry for not liking most of this gens games coming from PS, not really doe.

Cacabunga23h ago

Hopefully doesn’t take them a complete gen to release it

TheColbertinator18h ago

Good. Something not boring, not one of those "make your own game" crap and also on Steam would be nice.

Stopac16h ago

I too like to look for things in the wrong places.

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Outriders Dev's Next Game Has Been Canceled After Publishing Agreement With Take-Two Fell Through

Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.

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Tacoboto2d ago

"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."

If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.

banger881d 21h ago

If it was more online-only crap then good riddance.

jjb19811d 7h ago

Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.

thorstein1d 6h ago

I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.