Sea of Thieves

[Kurt Russell]

Don't see a thread for it yet, so I'll start it..



Sea of Thieves Reaches 1 million players in 48 hours

Sea of Thieves put anti-toxicity strategies into game's design

Sea of Thieves servers can't keep up with demand

Has anybody played it yet? I read on Twitter that it's essentially a whole game in the style of Destiny 2 patrols.

[MMaRsu]

[Cerveza mas fina]

Heard there is no content

And its 60 bucks

 

[Svejk]

No Man's Sky: MS Edition - No Man's Sea

spoiler (click to show/hide)

At least you can actually see other players in this one. 

[close]

[Cerveza mas fina]

In an alternative universe this is was a smash hit on the GCN for Rare, kind of feels like it belongs there.

[bork]

Don't see a thread for it yet, so I'll start it..

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Sea of Thieves Reaches 1 million players in 48 hours

Sea of Thieves put anti-toxicity strategies into game's design

Sea of Thieves servers can't keep up with demand

Has anybody played it yet? I read on Twitter that it's essentially a whole game in the style of Destiny 2 patrols.

There's a video in that Polygon article that shows them having to go below into the ship, take out a bucket and scoop up water leaking in, and then go back to the deck and throw it overboard.  WHAT FUN
 

[pilonv1]

Heard there is no content

And its 60 bucks

 

I had a deal where I got Game Pass for $5 a month which was stackable.

Still don't feel like I got my money's worth with this

[Kurt Russell]

They're using the sunk cost fallacy model pioneered by Destiny.

1 - Announce new MMO game
2 - Hype
3 - HYPE
4 - More hype
5 - Launch framework of game
6 - Users complain about lack of content but continue to play because $60
7 - Users eventually accept lack of content
8 - Drop expansion pack offering more content. Because of low-content acceptance, this feels like CHRISTMAS 2.0. Make another $30
9 - Repeat step 8
10 - Repeat step 8
11 - Repeat step 8 and introduce paid cosmetic microtransactions
12 - Announce sequel and go to step 2

[demi]

Sea of Thieves is hardly the same as Destiny dude, none of my Destiny people were remotely interested in this game

[ToxicAdam]

I tried to watch it on Twitch over the weekend and was bored to tears.

The respawn system was stupid as hell. You'd have a crew fight their asses off to beat another crew and then they'd respawn right on top of them and have to do it all over again.

[Huff]

"The problem is that Sea of Thieves is not a complete game," Tassi writes. "It just isn’t. It’s maybe 5 or 10% of one, but given what other open world/co-op games can offer you for $60, it’s just astonishing how little Sea of Thieves offers."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2018/03/22/sea-of-thieves-review-round-up-not-the-pirate-game-we-deserved/#4db4a62a3c92

Hard pass

[blaze]

I mean if you take the gameplay, missions, lore and "story" out of Destiny, this is similar. But it's really nothing like it. It's No Man's Sky in the sea, with even less to do, less interesting exploration and a LOT of downtime. I paid €2 for two months of game pass to play it and I regret it.

[Freyj]

Don’t know why anyone would pay $60 for this when you can try it for free for at least two weeks with game pass. “I regret spending $5” is silly.

I tried to watch it on Twitch over the weekend and was bored to tears.

The respawn system was stupid as hell. You'd have a crew fight their asses off to beat another crew and then they'd respawn right on top of them and have to do it all over again.

I’m having fun but yeah this sucks. Can’t count the times we’ve just let our ship sink, had one person run a brand new one in and finish off the attackers with a fully replenished inventory.

[Eel O'Brian]

Sea of Thieves is hardly the same as Destiny dude, none of my Destiny people were remotely interested in this game

All the Destiny folks I know jumped ship to MHW when that came out.

This entire game has less content than most tutorial levels in other games. Pretty water, though. My advice to anyone interested is to use the free 14 day trial on Game Pass. Be prepared to cancel on day two.

[blaze]

Don’t know why anyone would pay $60 for this when you can try it for free for at least two weeks with game pass. “I regret spending $5” is silly.

I tried to watch it on Twitch over the weekend and was bored to tears.

The respawn system was stupid as hell. You'd have a crew fight their asses off to beat another crew and then they'd respawn right on top of them and have to do it all over again.

I’m having fun but yeah this sucks. Can’t count the times we’ve just let our ship sink, had one person run a brand new one in and finish off the attackers with a fully replenished inventory.

I regret wasting my two months of gamepass for €2 on this, I would have rather kept that for State of Decay 2. I don't regret spending the €2 to play it.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Might do a game pass trial for state of decay, not for this

[Raist]

http://www.gameinformer.com/games/sea_of_thieves/b/xboxone/archive/2018/03/23/game-informer-sea-of-thieves-xbox-one-review.aspx

Sea of Thieves is like the kiddy-pool at the waterpark. They’re both pirate-themed, they both feature fun activities improved by having friends with you, and they’re both shallow in the interest of keeping things entertaining without being dangerous.

Well that's one way to open a review 

[bork]

http://www.gameinformer.com/games/sea_of_thieves/b/xboxone/archive/2018/03/23/game-informer-sea-of-thieves-xbox-one-review.aspx

Sea of Thieves is like the kiddy-pool at the waterpark.

Amirox's favorite game confirmed.

[Nintex]

Rare looked around their offices and wondered.
"Gee, what Nintendo concept haven't we ripped off yet guys"
"We could do another Perfect Dark or Banjo"
"SHUT UP DAVE YOU'RE FIRED!"
"Now, remember when they did that Wind Waker thing with the sea that was totally barren"
"Sounds good, let's work on that I'll give Phil a ringer"
"Cool beans guys but really for me to put in on my shirt and greenlit it, it needs to have ONLINE and IMMERSION and CLOUD"
"O.k."

*4 years later*

"WOW Guys, 4 years, can't wait to see how you've improved the Xbox(TM) brand with another stellar exclusive in the greatest year in Xbox History."
"We can't wait to see it either Phil"
"Sooo uuhh, where's is the rest of the game"
"It's called minimalism Phil, it's the first minimalist game"

[Eel O'Brian]

This should have been a free games with gold exclusive. GameStop's going to be a sea of previously owned sea of thieves next week.

[pilonv1]

I will say the PC port is really good though, running it at 1440p with max detail and never drops below 60fps

Guess it helps when you don't have to render any content

[Raist]

There's something horribly off with the water physics. It looks crazy, but the ships don't move at all like what you'd expect from such intense waves 

[Human Snorenado]

Play Rare games in 2018, brehs

[MMaRsu]

Play Rare games in 2018, brehs

Hey Viva Pinata is still awesome

[Corporal]

Can you even still play Viva Pinata on PC or did the game die with the last abortion of a shop MS inflicted on us? I'd check online, but eh, it's Viva Pinata.

[paprikastaude]

Play Rare games in 2018, brehs

I actually know a forum that, once it significantly died down over time, was left with a core of nintenyearolds who still wait for that new Banjo Kazooie and praise the N64 and "collectathon-genre" as the epitome of good game design to this day.

[Eel O'Brian]

Play Rare games in 2018, brehs

What's there is fairly well done. There's just hardly anything there, haha. You can quite literally play for an hour and experience everything this game has on offer.

[Joe Molotov]

Play Rare games in 2018, brehs

What's there is fairly well done. There's just hardly anything there, haha. You can quite literally play for an hour and experience everything this game has on offer.

It’s crazy that this is basically Rare’s only game in five years and one of the only big exclusives for the Xbox in 2018 and this is all they’ve got to show for it.

[Positive Touch]

they cancelled scalebound but released this

[kingv]

they cancelled scalebound but released this

I drafted this same comment last night but forgot to hit post.

[Human Snorenado]

Play Rare games in 2018, brehs

What's there is fairly well done. There's just hardly anything there, haha. You can quite literally play for an hour and experience everything this game has on offer.

It’s crazy that this is basically Rare’s only game in five years and one of the only big exclusives for the Xbox in 2018 and this is all they’ve got to show for it.

...is it, tho?

[Eel O'Brian]

I think MS took a look at this, Crackdown 3, and State of Decay 2 and thought "well, maybe people will forget to cancel their Game Pass trials."

[Cerveza mas fina]

I really thought this would be a huge light mmo

[team filler]

for switch?

[Rahxephon91]

MS is pathetic.

How do you support a console with such little software effort? Fuck how do you push a new revision with such little software? I don't think any major console manufacture has been as bad with first party support as MS has this gen. And unlike with the 2nd half of the 360, it's not like they have the mainstream and third parties to coast on.  I know the resetnerds are all "well MS has been so great great on hardware". Who the fuck cares? You made an awesome 4k console with nothing that takes advantage of it. You've made strives in backwards comp, on games I can run better on my PC. So excited for Xbox.

[kingv]

I agree 100%

There’s something really low effort feeling about all of MS first party games this generation.

Crackdown 3 looks like hot garbage and will probably suck worse than 2. And state of decay was always a low budget indie game. It barely even counts as an exclusive.

[Tasty]

Nintendo (and Sony to a lesser extent) make having a good first-party line-up look so easy that I'm happy Microsoft is always there to show how difficult it actually is.

[CatsCatsCats]

Think I’m gonna start the game pass trial to give this a whirl, looks kinda fun

[Nintex]

Nintendo (and Sony to a lesser extent) make having a good first-party line-up look so easy that I'm happy Microsoft is always there to show how difficult it actually is.

Microsoft closed nearly all their studios and ruined those that they didn't close.
They've intentionally handicapped themselves.

If they had bought Nintendo they would've ran Mario into the ground by now, fired Miyamoto, Koizumi and Aonuma and had the designers of Wii Music build a Zelda game. 

[Sho Nuff]

I don't understand what is going on over there. I get the feeling that the leads of the game org are attempting to recover from the disastrous leadership of the previous regime, but are still getting stomped and are incapable of recovering thanks to douchebaggery further up the MS chain. (Shrugs)

[bluemax]

I don't understand what is going on over there. I get the feeling that the leads of the game org are attempting to recover from the disastrous leadership of the previous regime, but are still getting stomped and are incapable of recovering thanks to douchebaggery further up the MS chain. (Shrugs)

Microsoft changed leadership in a LOT of places, not just games. Maybe Nadella just doesn't see something that loses as much money as games development as being a worthwhile endeavor?

Former first-party
Bungie – Halo series
Twisted Pixel Games – The Gunstringer, LocoCycle, The Maw, The Adventures of Captain Smiley, 'Splosion Man series

Defunct first-party
Aces Studio – Microsoft Flight Simulator series
Digital Anvil – Brute Force, Freelancer
Ensemble Studios – Age of Empires series, Halo Wars
FASA Studio – MechWarrior series, Shadowrun
Hired Gun – Halo 2 for Windows Vista
Lionhead Studios – Fable series, Black & White series
Microsoft Game Studios Japan – Magatama, Phantom Dust
Press Play – Max: The Curse of Brotherhood, Kalimba
XSN Sports – NHL Rivals 2004

Former second-party
Beep Industries – Voodoo Vince
BioWare – Mass Effect, Jade Empire
Fuel Industries – Tinker
Media.Vision – Sneakers
FromSoftware – Ninja Blade
Mistwalker – Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey

Defunct second-party
Artoon – Blinx series, Blue Dragon
Bizarre Creations – Project Gotham Racing series
Carbonated Games – Hexic series
feelplus – Lost Odyssey
Game Republic – Every Party
Hudson Soft – Fuzion Frenzy 2
Realtime Worlds – Crackdown

I dunno, it feels like looking at this list there aren't as many missteps as you would think. Lionhead definitely got fucked by Fable Adventures and Microsoft not being able to decide what that should be. Who the shit remembers Press Play though? Apparently they were making a multiplayer survival game. Maybe MS decided to just get PUBG as a timed exclusive instead?

I admit I didn't realize From had been a MS second party at one point.

[Svejk]

[blaze]

they released an update, you've to download the whole game again lol

[kingv]

I remember when they did that shit with Halo5. I was not happy.

[CatsCatsCats]

Can’t play this game, it keeps saying I don’t own it even tho I started game pass for it

[CatsCatsCats]

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/tech/gaming/691963/Sea-of-Thieves-Xbox-Game-Pass-NOT-WORKING-0x803f8001-errors-hit-game-following-new-update/amp

Oh. No one can. 🤦‍♂️

[Nintex]

The game has no content
Doesn't boot
And now the achievements are disabled

It's almost like this studio doesn't like working for Microsoft anymore. 

[CatsCatsCats]

Game is stupid as shit but I had a blast playing it with a buddy

[blaze]

I remember when they did that shit with Halo5. I was not happy.

thankfully this game isn't as big as Halo 5, but I still am not going to redownload it. I've moved on.

[CatsCatsCats]

Lol it’s like 9 gigs, you petty


Anyway yeah, just did a couple treasure runs and a few skeleton attack things with one other dude while getting our characters drunk and laughing our asses off. It’s not a very complete or serious game but it was a lot of fun

[Joe Molotov]

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2018/03/28/community-thank-you-sea-of-thieves/

[Nintex]

The worldwide excitement for Sea of Thieves has made it the fastest-selling first-party new IP of this generation.

 

[CatsCatsCats]

I’m sure giving it away for free didn’t help inflate that figure at all

[Nintex]

Sea of shills

[blaze]

Lol it’s like 9 gigs, you petty


Anyway yeah, just did a couple treasure runs and a few skeleton attack things with one other dude while getting our characters drunk and laughing our asses off. It’s not a very complete or serious game but it was a lot of fun

I mean I just don't want to play it. Dunno how that's petty.

[CatsCatsCats]

Iuno fight me

[blaze]

let's go 

[Raist]

https://www.seaofthieves.com/news/sea-of-thieves-content-plans

"We're doing some stuff"

[CatsCatsCats]

Pretty cool that game pass + play anywhere + cross compat  co-op = I can play this on the laptop co-op with my stepson on the xbone with only one gold account

[Sho Nuff]

https://www.seaofthieves.com/news/sea-of-thieves-content-plans

"We're doing some stuff"

Very good, very descriptive, i can't wait until all those great ambiguous new features are implemented