@goldsmen rare has never said pve discord servers are against the rules. just like they never said macros are against the rules. they added macro detection to try and kick people trying to leech off active crewmates. more an issue in open crew as close crew in theory is a group of consenting friends to whatever playstyle they are doing.
sea of thieves has always been tools not rules. using discord to coordinate pve fleets falls under this umbrella.. however most companies dont allow the community to charge people for these services. which the longer rare has taken to add proper pve servers at a fee the more money goes to discord groups and less to the company to further develop the game
and macros are allowed because people have physical disabilities, these people would benefit highly from having a fully function safer seas because if you are missing fingers or have limited functionality in your hands its really hard to compete with a sweatlord. i will say out of all the games ive played sea of thieves has been the most accommodating in terms of accessibility features. but for the things they cant attribute for theres razer synapse macros so people can perform functions their hands might not be capable of for whatever reason.
that being said they havent account for people on the spectrum, people who love this world they created but who have crippling social anxiety. people like myself who is still having nightmares about an encounter that happened over a year ago. it wasnt a toxic encounter but it was a number of misplays on my part combined with stress and physical limitations and it resulted in just a loss of a little bit of loot, a LOT of supplies from hours spent collecting. but whats the alternative? does the player base really think someone like me should just 100% quit the game? 1 less emporium shopper to buy cosmetics to fund the game? 1 less person who would be willing to pay for full access safer seas? wheres the logic there? why do people want this game to die for the sake of preserving the pvpve? me uninstall is no different than me playing pve and avoiding high seas. its very rare i play high seas now because i just cant get over my mistakes. my self esteem is low enough as it is without being destroyed by a galleon full of pvp sweatlords especially if they happen to be mouthy ones talking trash about you not being able to 1v4 them.
the big issue as i said before is high seas needs more incentive to play over a full pve server. its simple. higher risk higher reward. the problem right now is comparing same level reward with different levels of risk. even world of warcraft has a 10-30% reward boost if you choose to opt into pvp the higher reward for playing on a faction that is outnumbered by the enemy.
