Has the team brought up the possibility of being able to progress in previous seasons like how Halo: The Master Chief Collection does it? Basically the issue for myself is that I work 12 hour shifts in the US Army and really have to manage time properly in order to play games. I've been playing Sea of Thieves since the Beta and I love it so much and have so many fond memories that I actually got a tattoo on my arm of the Sea of Thieves compass. Joe Neate actually commented on it on Twitter haha. Anyway, I missed out on Season 1 due to work related things and I didn't have the opportunity to progress at all. Season 2 came along and I got in very late. I'm almost level 80 in the season only because I've been sacrificing quality sleep in order to get to level 100. Well unfortunately, the season as I am writing this has less than 24 hours left and the possibility of reaching level 100 seems grim. Which honestly breaks my heart. It's not the end of the world obviously but as such a big fan, collecting the cosmetics has meant a lot to me. I was hoping that one day you all would consider adding the ability to choose which season you wish to progress in, that way if someone joins in late or doesn't have the time to complete it, they can do so on their own time without worrying they will miss out. Believe me, I understand the exclusivity factor and I do respect that. So I don't know if this is something that would ever be implemented. After browsing Reddit and other websites, I have seen a decent amount of people who have a similar issue of not being able to invest as much time as they want to and will miss out on rewards. I'm sure a feature like this would make a lot of people happy. Maybe some wouldn't like it with the mentality of "you snooze you lose", but believe me I don't think the majority of players would have a problem. I mean think about it, you all have already made it so you cannot pay for season tiers (which is amazing by the way, I respect that), what harm would it be to make it so you can go back and complete older seasons? That's just my take on it. I really appreciate whoever takes the time to read this and if this feature never gets added, that's okay. I just wanted to bring it up in hopes you all would consider it if you haven't already. I am looking forward to hearing back from the team and I hope you all take this idea into consideration in a future update of some kind. Thank you for your time.
ABILITY TO PROGRESS IN PREVIOUS SEASONS
@cosmicspectr you can still buy everything from the seasons later...all that stuff comes into the shops, for gold and probably need to be unlocked through a commendation
@schwammlgott Would that be including everything within the season? Take the legendary curse for example from season 1. Either that is going to end up in the ancient coins shop at some point or maybe unlocked through some form of commendation. Or they could just keep that exclusive. The point I was trying to make was that it would give players more to work towards in their journeys if they haven't already completed the season. If you haven't already seen it or if you don't know about it, look at how Halo: The Master Chief Collection does it. Once a new season is released, the other seasons don't go away. You can choose which ones you want to progress towards and I just feel like they nailed seasons in a game. I like how Sea of Thieves doesn't have the ability to pay for the tiers, like how Halo does it. With the type of game this is, I feel as if it would be a good fit personally. I'll admit I haven't had the opportunity to read up on how they plan to release season content post season so I'm curious to see how it truly gets implemented.
Only things which won't be coming back are season based titles, sails, scars and tattoos. And by season based I mean items named like : tattoo of the shroud. from S1
@cosmicspectr it will be exclusive for a short time, I guess 1 season long, then it will appear in the shops to buy...but locked behind a commendation...that's already confirmed
@limend would that also include ship hulls for example? In season 2 I was trying to reach 100 to get the hull for pirate legends because that is really the only thing that is truly appealing to me.
Anything that says "Ocean Deep" in the Season 2 track is exclusive to the season. Everything else will be "timed" exclusive, but will show up in the outpost stores at some point in the future behind a commendation of some kind.
The Plunder Pass stuff will end up in the Emporium if it's not there already.
@cosmicspectr The halo approach doesn't feel like a season though, it feels like a prestige class. Exp here or there? it no longer says that you played during X event. I personally think more season cosmetics need to be fully exclusive, whole outfits or ship sets.
I've been lucky though to have some really neat interactions because of old rare cosmetics.
