Make SoT great again!!!

Companies aren't really dumb, you are an Insider, so you should be able to see the new content on its way. It would make zero sense that the company with all the analytics to keep investing resources into a game that is dying. I'm all for bug fixes, they can certainly fix some of the long standing ones. However, all these doomsayer posts have no ground to stand on besides some personal anecdotal experience that someone else has the complete opposite somewhere else. Their is good reason anecdotal evidence isn't used in Academia.

@justincase2004

1. The game isn't going to die in 6 months.
2. If this is the most bug ridden game you played I envy you. I have been playing games for 27 years now and the quality of this game is pretty good and nowhere near the broken point.
3. The Meta could use a shake up and combat in general needs work, which I believe that they are working on.

Personally I am not as active on the seas as I used to be, mainly because I don't like the state of CQC since the speed up of sword battle and the new additions haven't really been calling to me. I am playing other games more frequently. I still jump in here and there. Maybe it is time for a break, but it is not an indication that the game is dying.

As many have pointed out here, people have been coming to the forums for a long time claiming the game is dead. However, I rarely if ever feel like I am on an empty server. Occasionally, it does feel a bit lonely out there, but then I sail across the map and find that there are several ships there. They were simply on a different part of the map than I had been on.

As for bugs, while the game does still have its issues, the bugs we have today I would hardly call game shattering. There was a time when the glitches were really bad. I am thinking when Skelly Fleets first showed up. Man did we have massive issues then. I am talking server crashing level events.

Now having said all of that, Rare does need to step up their game some. They need to find the right balance for melee combat. Each time they try to rebalance it, they make it worse. They need to take a step back and re-examine melee combat and just fix it.

They could do some things to even the playing field a bit more so that cross play is no longer a talked about subject, or at least something that is not nearly as big of a deal as some make it out to be today.

And yes, they seem to keep allowing old bugs (more annoying than actually game breaking) to crop back into the current build. So they need to work on the quality control more than they have. They also need to figure out the problems and send out patch fixes far more frequently than they do.

I am willing to bet many of the issues you are experiencing are more related to your set up than they are with Rare or Rare's servers.

Last, the game is not dead or dying. Yes, some people have moved on from playing the game. But I see a lot of people still on these threads that were there when I first joined the forums. And they are still playing. I also see people that took hiatuses from the game returning. And most importantly, I see a ton of new blood coming in all the time.

I feel like they keep "adding" but they never fix issues.. they take way too long and they need a better team / more people to work on this because its unexcusable to not fix something that has been there for a year

@justincase2004

" SoT has more glitches and server lag than any other game I have ever played and I play a lot of games."

there is literally no way, SOT really doesnt even have that many bugs. have you never played a bethesda game, or a wildcard game. they both have made very popular buggy games that i would think you might have played. i honestly dont get the bug complaints, i rarely run into bugs, rarely ever. this game is not that buggy at all.

every update in every game ever brings new bugs and glitches, thats just how game development is.

i play on the oceanic servers and lately the game has been fine, and if its fine on oceanic then you absolutely know the game is not dead. oceanic servers are the most low pop servers of every game, on games like pubg it was hard to find full lobbies in oceanic. so the fact that i can get full lobbies on SOT shows its doing fine

Um, wall banging isn't a bug. I don't think it is. It's been that way forever. If it is a bug, I guess they just haven't addressed it for 19 months. So you should probably assume it's staying.

Your prediction, much like your opinion, is wrong.

Play ARK, then you may return here to share what bugs plaguing a game that is being updated rather than fixed is really like.

Or don't.

I do apologize for not reading the post. As soon as I saw "this game dead" I simply took it as another "this game is dead" post that we have seen incessantly posted since launch.
I also left the SoT drinking game as taking a shot everytime someone says, game dead, pve, crossplay, or some other nerf because they aren't as good as they think they are, grossly bypassed my tolerance for alcohol and put me at risk of alcohol poinsoning.

Why complain about empty servers? That means no one to challenge you when you beat a fort, no one to attack you while you're taking on a skelly ship or meg, no one to spawn-camp, no one to 4-on-1 you while laughing at you as if they were displaying actual skill instead of just ganging up on you. An empty server is the PVE server many of us want.

Uh, no we can't all agree. I've had tons of fun this week with other crews.

I'm getting tired of people thinking they are the voice of the people playing this game. You do not speak for me, good sir. And I seriously doubt you speak for the majority.

@justincase2004 said in Make SoT great again!!!:

I think we can all agree that Sea of Thieves is basically dead.

What an absurd comment. No, we don't "all agree". There's no evidence whatsoever that "Sea of Thieves is basically dead." None, zero, zilch. Quite the opposite. When you begin with such a grossly hyperbolic statement, it's impossible to take you seriously. It's fine to discuss glitches and so forth that you feel are problematic. Just do that without all the drama and you'll provoke a much more productive conversation.

@justincase2004
Justin, bubby, if you didn't read my previous comment allow me to reiterate something again. For every anecdotal example someone has, their is someone out their with the opposite to disprove it.

You want evidence of how the game is dead. It’s rating is 3 out of 5 starts. That’s a grade of D for all you kids in school.

And? This is the rating since day one, we are getting close to two years now, if a score of 3/5 is a sign of a dead game, shouldn't it have died at launch?

All that hard work on FOTD and nobody is doing it already. I can promise you that less than 30% of people have done it 50 times.

Played the past two nights, and each time we have a FOTD that was popping off with plenty of fights.

The game has 8 million players but only 1% are legends. Out on the seas you find that 95% of players are legends or even more. That tells you that over 95% of the people that purchased the game either arnt active or played once on a free trial of game pass.

Where are you even getting this number? If its game pass or achievement base, you cannot base it off that. Why? because that number includes every single person who spend 5 minutes in a the game only to quit. Those people from game pass probably didn't have any interest in the game to begin with.

Pace22, the face of Sea of Thieves can’t even afford to quit his 9-5 job. Why do you think he gets starts his streams at 5:30pm. After over a year of making Sea of Thieves content captain falcore can finally go full time making content. Again the face of the game.

I love Pace, but he isn't a big streamer in the grand scheme of streamers. His audience base isn't remotely enough to pay the bills. Its interesting, that you are completely silent about Summit when he streams the game? Real convenient to ignore his stream numbers. Love or hate him, he has high stream numbers when he plays. Pace is one of many people who streams this game. You are cherry picking your examples to fit the narrative, that is extremely dishonest.

The YouTube financial ratio is 1k views for each US dollar. Falcore gets about 8k views a video.

His most latest one released is already sitting at 15k, it is only a day old. His next one is 22k, he even has videos at 60k. You actually don't know what you are talking about. I am also pretty sure that isn't remotely how ad revenue works.

$8 a day plus maybe $100 from streaming. That’s poverty. I’m sure rare pays him because or his wife must does well.

You are basing the success of a game solely on one guys ability to generate Youtube money in a time period that is labeled the "Adpocalypse."

Do I need to go further. Watch angry joe if that wasn’t enough to convince you. I love this game and want what’s best.

Anything of a relevant date or we talking videos over a year old?

People have been saying this game is dying since day one, yet here it stands. Your cherry picked examples are garbage, to put it real blunt.

@justincase2004 I'm sorry, I didn't realize this was a popularity contest. Well then, I guess I will just stop enjoying myself.

I think we can all agree that Sea of Thieves is basically dead.

I don't think we can. I offer, as recent evidence...

https://compass-ssl.xboxlive.com/assets/00/b0/00b06ce3-f475-4440-b597-3b5c2ea94079.jpg?n=SoT_FotD_Infographic.jpg

A lot of people are clearing playing Sea of Thieves

I’m my opinion this game will be 100% dead in 6 months of things don’t change.

In my opinion, in 6 months, there will be another post foreshadowing the impending death of Sea of Thieves, and it too will be 100% wrong!

@justincase2004 said in Make SoT great again!!!:

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You want evidence of how the game is dead. It’s rating is 3 out of 5 starts. That’s a grade of D for all you kids in school.

Arena has 45minute wait time AKA nobody played arena. Adventure is full of server hoppers like me who hop for an hour and find nobody doing FOTD.

All that hard work on FOTD and nobody is doing it already. I can promise you that less than 30% of people have done it 50 times.

The game has 8 million players but only 1% are legends. Out on the seas you find that 95% of players are legends or even more. That tells you that over 95% of the people that purchased the game either arnt active or played once on a free trial of game pass.

Pace22, the face of Sea of Thieves can’t even afford to quit his 9-5 job. Why do you think he gets starts his streams at 5:30pm. After over a year of making Sea of Thieves content captain falcore can finally go full time making content. Again the face of the game.

The YouTube financial ratio is 1k views for each US dollar. Falcore gets about 8k views a video.

$8 a day plus maybe $100 from streaming. That’s poverty. I’m sure rare pays him because or his wife must does well.

I game that isn’t dead has fans. Fans that support you and give you the opportunity to be successful. Sea of Thieves has enough fans to support content creators willing to live in poverty. Summit1g is an exception because he plays just as much Sea of Thieves as he does other games.

Do I need to go further. Watch angry joe if that wasn’t enough to convince you. I love this game and want what’s best.

Nothing you posted there has any reflection upon actual game population or the health of the game. And you lost me and many others thinking Angry Joe (what a tool) or any of the listed streamers have any appreciable influence or reflect the health of the game.

Also if the game was in such dire straits, Microsoft would have pulled the plug on it long ago like they did with may other games instead of continuing to invest and expand the game as they have.

If the game is "dead" or dying, then explain how this game has consistently been one of the most played games on Xbox for over a year now? It has always been within the top 30 played games on the console week after week, most times coming in between 20th and 25th and peaking at the 11th most played game of the week right after the Anniversary Update. And if you compare it to the other games on the list, then you'd know that it is not failing in the least but still has a very dedicated player base.

And to back up my statements, I present you:

@justincase2004 I cant agree with your first statement at all. So much so that i didnt bother to read the rest of your whine.