What a first year we've had!
In one year our players have sailed 1.8 billion kilometres (that's the distance from Earth to Saturn!) and have watched 6,500 YEARS of #SeaOfThieves streams. Wow.
Those players have certainly been busy when they've been on the seas, collecting and cashing in almost 750,000,000 chests, skulls and items of cargo to amass a collective fortune of 642,000,000,000 gold!
@katttruewalker I saw this on Twitter earlier I was amazed but not surprised as this game is awesome 😉
@KattTruewalker I just checked my status I've sailed 11636719 miles so basically getting close to 12 million lol
Nice! I Tweeted at Joe and the Sea of Thieves account and suggested that they should put out some fun 1st year stats like how many times gunpowder barrels were used on other crews and wide array of other stats that they would probably normally use for internal analytics.
They were probably 15 steps ahead of me and had planned to do this all along, hahaha. So fun to see how much gold we've collectively made (and spent!)
@ionei-falcon said in Sea of Thieves First Year Stats!:
100 million cosmetics purchased! No wonder I see so many stylish pirates out there. Lots of impressive and fun stats!
I'll take that as a compliment 😎
@katttruewalker Wow that is some really cool insight. Thank you for posting it. I guess the real Athena's Fortune is build right here by everyone in this lovely community. Keep up the great work and WOW once again for that 642 billion gold. Not even the Gold Hoarder himself could keep all of those golden coins.
@katttruewalker With the only exception being anything related to watching streamers, I probably account for half of those totals (kidding, or am I... hmmmm).
Katt, as always you bring a wealth of joy to the game. And when I think about those mind boggling totals I am truly blown away. Thank you for being such an amazing ambassador of the game.
@katttruewalker I’m doing a presentation on sea of thieves for my speaking and listening exam at college.
I think the average numbers in the top right show how many accounts are not playing, or have not played in a long time. Average player encountered 2 Krakens, 7 Megs, and has only salvaged 8 shipwrecks? There must be a lot of low playtime accounts, or accounts that quit prior to Shrouded Spoils, because that sounds like a casual playtime weekend :D
Thank you for those kind words, I couldn't or wouldn't be such an ambassador if I didn't believe wholeheartedly in this Community and Rare themselves.
All of you are an inspiration :)
@XXMADMONKEY2001 That is amazing to hear! Wishing you the very best of luck!
@Biostructr I know, right? Some very wealthy pirates out there!
@d3adst1ck said in Sea of Thieves First Year Stats!:
I think the average numbers in the top right show how many accounts are not playing, or have not played in a long time. Average player encountered 2 Krakens, 7 Megs, and has only salvaged 8 shipwrecks? There must be a lot of low playtime accounts, or accounts that quit prior to Shrouded Spoils, because that sounds like a casual playtime weekend :D
Exactly most people who tried Sea of Thieves do not keep playing it. Millions tried it and sailed past the Sea of Thieves. Sea of Thieves boasts about millions of copies sold. Reality is only a very small amount of players have kept sailing. Not a great statistic to have the vast majority of players who purchased your game not to like it and do not play.
There is a very small core that has stuck around. Many of these have even dropped anchor and left. My spouse, friends, and I can see this in just one play session.
It is ok that Sea of Thieves is not a mass hit. It never will be. That opportunity has sailed. The reputation of issues with solid content and especially player toxicity will always keep it from being that. Groveling for the Twitch crowd by changing the game in favor of more PvP is just going to make it all worse.
Man those stats are incredible! Especially considering it's on game pass so there's a huge number of players who try it & drop it. So there has to be a considerable number of active pirates playing.
Only stat I'm surprised about is the average of shipwrecks salvaged, I'd expect it to be higher. Karen ain't surprising as it didn't attack sloops before. I've played since launch & I've been attacked by her only 3 times.. and Meg hasn't been in game a full year.
@x-crowheart-x said in Sea of Thieves First Year Stats!:
@d3adst1ck said in Sea of Thieves First Year Stats!:
I think the average numbers in the top right show how many accounts are not playing, or have not played in a long time. Average player encountered 2 Krakens, 7 Megs, and has only salvaged 8 shipwrecks? There must be a lot of low playtime accounts, or accounts that quit prior to Shrouded Spoils, because that sounds like a casual playtime weekend :D
Exactly most people who tried Sea of Thieves do not keep playing it. Millions tried it and sailed past the Sea of Thieves. Sea of Thieves boasts about millions of copies sold. Reality is only a very small amount of players have kept sailing. Not a great statistic to have the vast majority of players who purchased your game not to like it and do not play.
There is a very small core that has stuck around. Many of these have even dropped anchor and left. My spouse, friends, and I can see this in just one play session.
It is ok that Sea of Thieves is not a mass hit. It never will be. That opportunity has sailed. The reputation of issues with solid content and especially player toxicity will always keep it from being that. Groveling for the Twitch crowd by changing the game in favor of more PvP is just going to make it all worse.
No I’m disagree in that, look at The visited Islands Stats! 2.3 Million per day on average cant be handled with an small group of players! When I’m playing I’m visiting 10-20 Islands per session in average!
And hear Mike Chapman’s tweet, the playerbase is, and was healthy since release! No worries and with the Anniversary Update we have millions of new players and returning players!
You can disagree, but the stats are what they are. Rare plays very loose with the stats and uses fuzzy math to tell the story they want. Tweets do not equal facts just because comments are Tweeted.
There will not be millions of new players. Sea of Thieves basically hovers around a couple hundred thousand players. Millions either downloaded it on pass or purchased it and either never played it or decided not to play it. The million stat will always be reserved for the players that do not like it and do not play it.
Ah... we are missing a very important stat.
How many "Shrouded Ghosts" dispatched back to the deep? :)
@katttruewalker I believe some of these are plagued by the same problem as the achievements: players from those first 2 weeks who never came back have massively lowered some of these average stats.
For example:
On average, players have...
I know full well that I have seen Karen more than twice last month alone, I saw Meg 5 times in one session last week and I probably kill and get killed by a couple of crews per month (that's with me down to maybe one sail per week now!)
I know some of us with much higher sailing times will pull the numbers the other way, but these figures seem very low!
