Today Rare and Microsoft published a video in which the developers of Sea of Thieves discussed several aspects of the game.
Opinion: Why Helldivers 2 and Sea of Thieves, despite their obvious differences, are very much the same for PlayStation and Xbox
Sea of Thieves stared off life as an Xbox exclusive, growing over time into a genuine hit with a large, committed community. Now, in an effort to increase its audience still futher, it's become a key part of Microsoft's multi-platform push.
So, no one wants to talk about how the PS5 outperforms the xbox version in multiple ways, huh?
Draw distance better / shadows better
Also he calls most ps5 “oddity’s” and uses the term “not sure why this is happening” a lot
Ps5 is just more powerful, those 2teraflop difference and Xbox fanatics saying world most powerful console, is worth zip- zero
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.
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.
One of my friends played the game for about 10 minutes and then quit. Is he counted in this 11 million?
I wanted to like this game, but as a predominantly solo player of video games, there's just nothing to do in Sea of Thieves.
Oh a cave! Empty.
Ohhhhhh, an island! Empty.
Loot??? Nope.
Fetch quests for currency was all i could find.
Can understand how this could be fun for some people who like to play in groups, but I got bored very quickly.
Sea of thieves is actually a fun game now but did not launched that way.
I was one of their "over 11million players to play " Sea of Thieves in 2020. I played for a couple of hours got bored and have never gone back and very unlikely to ever do so. I bet there's about 5million other gamers with the same story that in 2020 they played for a couple hours left and never went back.