Sea of Thieves Welcomes 40 Million Players

Joe 'Three Sheets' Neate (Executive Producer): "As I’m sure you can imagine, when it comes to Sea of Thieves my days are full of numbers. Development costs, active servers, days until the next update… Sometimes, though, a truly extraordinary number stands out – a number like 40 million, which I’m incredibly pleased to say is the number of pirates who’ve now set sail in Sea of Thieves!"

[darthv72]

Garrr... more people to walk the plank and send to Davey Jones locker.

would have been funny to release this on talk like a pirate day.

[aaronaton]

I nearly died from cringe reading this...

[darthv72]

Tis be the idearrrr

[coolbeans]

Ye wouldn't be any fun on the high seas!

[TrueRican69]

I pre-order the premium edition for my PS5 today

[Crows90]

40 million have set sail...that's great. How many are sailing now? Monthly active users....when it actually matters. How many people purchased the game is another important number.

[Gamingsince1981]

You don't get numbers like that from MS mouth pieces, they just like to say stuff like "this game was looked at 129 million time, the biggest amount of people browsing a game of this genre on xbox gamepass ever in the last 3 weeks compared to before gamepass was out (small print only 2 million bothered playing longer than 20 seconds and only 100 people are playing it concurrently)

It's all smoke and mirrors

[Ironmike]

Sad man

[D4RC]

Pathetic little boy.

[nibblo]

There are usually around 10,000 concurrent users on Steam not counting Xbox or PS but really it doesn't matter as long as there are enough people on the servers to play which there always were and will be for a long time now with the PS players coming on board. Same goes for how many people bought it and how many are on GP, we aren't the accountants of these console companies so why would we care?

[Hofstaderman]

Reporting on MAU stats is very misleading. Other companies publish units sold, MS cannot or will not due to Game Pass. We all know that their prior startegies have not panned out so now they have to actually sell games on other consoles. In any case, SoT is doing impressive preorders on PS5 and will very likely motivate Satya to release more games other than the four indicated games on their competitor's consoles. Take note Phil is radio silent....

[Jingsing]

Yeah Microsoft would tell you the start menu has had 1 billions clicks on Windows 11 to let you know it is beating Windows 10 when the reality is something else. 10,000 concurrent steam users is enough for me to extrapolate there aren't millions playing this on console either. Lets not forget the motivation to bring this to PS5 is already an admission of poor player count. I'd prefer it is Microsoft would just say nothing when it comes to numbers as it makes them look stupid while trying to make everyone else look like an idiot.

[Abear21]

40 Mil across Stream, Windows 10, and Xbox. Healthy numbers for sure, but when PC is the biggest platform, I expected more. It’ll be interesting to see how it does on PlayStation. Very well could be double that player count in 6 months with PS too. It’s crazy for developers to skip the most popular platform, not sure why they’d want to, but they must have had their rea$ons.

[Christopher]

PC is the market with the most competition for these type of games as well, so it's actually easier to break in on consoles where these games aren't as prominent.

[Elda]

No thanks.

[Profchaos]

Great... I don't think they are ever going back to remake banjo now.

[Christopher]

I think if it continues to do well Microsoft might give them some leeway to do a side project or two.

[anast]

MS will make a great third party provider of these kind of cheap online games.

[CBaoth]

it's all they do. Remember launch? Sold us a gimped console that played old games better than the PS one. Now they're selling old Xbox games on a PS that play better/more content. They can't even BUY a hit

[HyperMoused]

Been ages since i played this one, im sure there have been heaps of updates, but if you get a good crew then the game is a blast, the only thing is (unless this has changed) you dont get gear just skins, via gold etc...now...if you have a good crew you can set sail and have a great advneture, but you can also run into bad luck and, well, pirates and get no gold, so you get nothing for the time you played in a way...anyway itsa great game happy sailing