WC: “Sea of Thieves' big Anniversary Update has added so much richness to the game, but I'm still struggling hard to fall in love with Rare's pirate adventure.”
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!"
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.
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.
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
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?
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....
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.
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.
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.
It looks like PS5 players can't wait to don tricornes and raise anchor; Sea of Thieves is currently experiencing "longer wait times that normal", according to developer Rare, thanks to a "high volume" of new players joining the game as part of today's freshly launched PS5 Closed Beta.
The irony.
I remember the time when some PS fans used to sh!t on this game, by calling it an ugly game with cartoony graphics, awful and boring.
Fast forward six years and RARE is now facing server issues due the high influx of PS5 gamers trying to set sail prior release.
Those are true gamers that will enjoy great adventures with friends or solo.
Never trust jealous fanboys who hates on games for no reason other than not been available on their platform of choice. From any side!
I'm not sure what you're cheering for, that just means more xbox exclusives will be coming to PlayStation in the future, After all, it was only a few weeks ago you xbox guys were in tears and boycotting Microsoft for putting their games on PlayStation.
While I wish Sony had blocked them and forced Microsoft to fund these studios on their own, it'll be funny to see xbox games selling better on PlayStation.
"I'm not sure what you're cheering for, that just means more xbox exclusives will be coming to PlayStation in the future, After all, it was only a few weeks ago you xbox guys were in tears and boycotting Microsoft for putting their games on PlayStation."
And it worked like a charm!
You were so confident celebrating Indiana Jones, Hellblade II and Starfield (to name a few) on PS5.
You were so anxious about Xbox to leaving the console market to become a full third party publisher to Playstation.
How things work out for you? Not so great, I guess?
None of the big AAA Xbox first party games is coming to Playstation, but smaller and Live Service games.
Like Phil Said: Nothing has changed. Ori (smaller game) got released on the Switch. Minecraft (Live Service) has been on all platforms since forever.
"While I wish Sony had blocked them and forced Microsoft to fund these studios on their own, it'll be funny to see xbox games selling better on PlayStation."
For real? This is supposed to be viewed as some sort of Sony victory? I mean, Sony is investing BIG money, time and resources trying to create some successful LS games for years! In the process, people were laid off, studios closed and games canceled, for what?
Sony paid Square for FOAMSTARS, got it released day one on PS Plus and that game allegedly flopped. Just like another Playstation exclusive live service game, Babylon´s fall, before it. For what?
To see Microsoft releasing yet another (seemly) successful new LS game on their platform, "stealing" playstation gamers (you need a Microsoft account to play that game) while getting a 70% cut from every copy sold of a full priced 6 years old game?
If that´s is something for you to celebrate, I think its safe to say that both parties will be happy.
But it also was no secret that MS would be constantly updating it just like many other dev's/publishers do.
You can't complain now about the content can you?
When I played it many years ago, the kraken didn't even have a body. It just had tentacles. Hopefully they fix that. You can actually swim at the bottom and see that 🤔
Nothing they say on this website tracks in reality.
I'm glad the game is doing well on Playstation. It just means Rare gets a bigger budget for Everwild. Which will be exclusive.
The reality is Xbox only fanboys can't comment on anything without mentioning PS. You're always so butt hurt about everything. Just play games no matter the console 🙃
Can't believe I'm even taking the time to even reply to you.
When SOT released. It was barren it was boring. It has some neat ideas and the water was great. You know what else game was like this? No man's sky.
When SOT released. Not only did I dump on it. I took a massive diarrhea dump on it.
But like no man's sky. As years went on it got better and better and better. It got so good I bought it (not rent) on steam and it turned out to be a fun game years later.
So obscure what you are saying. Once you think a game is garbage. You are not allowed to change opinions? Not allowed to praise the devs for continuing working on the game for making it better. If that's the case you are a idiot.
I like what rare have done so much. I put my hand in my pocket and bought (not rent) SOT again on ps5. Just like I did with No man's sky's. Just like what I did with fallout 76. At release all 3 of them games where awful. Years of updates have made all 3 fun to play.
Now I could just flip what you said. Remember when Xbox fans dumped on No Man's sky? But loved it once it had updates and released on Xbox years later. But I'm not that type of small minded person. I'm glad developers continue on working on games way after release. I'm happy people can change there minds on a game once they see the improvements. But according to you. If you hated the game 6 years ago. You shouldn't be praising rare for a good job at making the game fun and enjoyable.
So confused when y'all say this lol. WHO do you think is buying this? Do you know how many people have PS5s? If you really think SONY FANBOYS are the ones buying this you are very delusional indeed. PS5 is a popular console, it's not just for the hardcore gamers.
Also it's not like MS is transparent with sales numbers like ever... Do we even know how many people actually still play this game to point at the issue being too many new PS5 players not just the puny servers left on a game that failed hard on release now being overloaded by a free trial on a re-release? I know the game got back on track and apparently went on to be quite good now (for those into this kind of game at least), but do we have actual player numbers or PS5 sales to draw these conclusions or it's just yet more engagement metrics bullshit like how many times someone walked the plank or some shit.
How is this irony? A metric ton of people play Fortnite and CoD, some of the two sh#$% games on the planet. A cellphone monopoly game is pulling in billions and it's another sh#$ game. People will play these kinds of titles, but he won't invest in an entire system just for Sea of Thieves, which is why MS had to hand it over.
Ps5 owner here , never trashed this game and I was thinking about a second console until Phil decided to put xbox games on ps5.
I also plan on getting sea of thieves, thank Phil for sinking your platform.
PlayStation, Xbox, whatever at launch it was shit
Hell even now I feel nothing for it despite the updates.
It's a far cry to what Rare used to do and it shouldn't take years for any game to get going or "get good".
There you happy.
"There you happy."
You hate most LS games, been those co-op or MP. And you have this weird fixation and obsession with the past.
So yeah, I´m happy for you to stay true with your character.
Im not buying a MS game unless its Halo 1,2,3 and or Reach and the first three gears. Those are the only decent games and its says alot that they from the 360 generation.
If theres a demo I will check it out, otherwise GaaS is not really my cup of tea. My son is bugging me for a Skulls and Bones so he may be into this.
nah it just says that if it wasnt on ps at launch, you disregard it automatically because sony pony. Arc the Lad, Lost Odyssee, Blue Dragon, Splinter Cell, Psychonauts, Ori just to name a few. You are also wrong about the 360 era, Halo 1 and 2 released on the OG xbox. You know so little about it, yet talk shit with full confidence like the average twitter user. It's obnoxious.
I was referring to Reach and Gears specifically. Also I actually had three 360 consoles. The RPGs sold me. Angry much? Not my fault MS screwed up two generations in a row and now their games are coming to Sony consoles. Be thankful, at least Sony owners will actually buy them
sure they fucked up 2 generations for the most part, doesn't mean that either their previous games are now garbage or that the games that are still great are suddenly bad.
It is sad we had to buy that many 360's, thankfully I only had to get 2
The game is awesome.
All the stupid arguing back and forth between console warriors is ridiculous. Enjoy the games and have fun in the community. Stop acting like grade schoolers.
Never been a SoT guy. Found it kinda boring and aimless. The preorders have been good enough to keep this porting experiment going tho. Curious what’s next.
Rare has scheduled a Sea of Thieves closed beta for the PS5 version launching at the end of April, with access granted by pre-ordering the title on the PS Store.
The pre-release test will run from Friday, 12th April 2024 until Monday, with all participants unlocking PS5 exclusive items: the Dauntless Adventurer Sails and Title.
