This Thrones event is horrible. It's entirely boring and tedious to accomplish, and the rewards are next to worthless. I am fascinated at Rare's attempts to force people to cooperate with one another with this update, and I am entirely convinced that whoever makes these decisions at Rare doesn't understand how people work.
Forcing people to cooperate in order to complete a task isn't fun - it's annoying - especially if you don't want to team up with random people in the first place. If Rare really knew what they were doing, they would simply make cooperation the better of two alternatives.
All they'd have to do is design an event around this line of thinking:
"Sure, you could go and try and do this thing alone, but it'd be easier and a more enjoyable experience if you recruited one or two more players to help you complete whatever it is you are doing."
It'd also help if attacking other players was discouraged in some way, shape, or form.
Of course, this is only half-fixing a broken bottle. The task itself would still need to be fun on its own whether you're working alone or not. The allure of cooperating with someone else should be that it enhances an already enjoyable experience - it should not detract from your experience if you don't work with someone else.
This Thrones event simply locks half of the rewards away unless you play the game the way the devs want you to play it. It's like someone's watching you play a game and is constantly suggesting you play it the way they want to play, but you continue doing as you please, so they take the controller away from you and start playing it themselves. It's not fun, and I feel like I have no say in how I want to experience my own adventure.
I will not be participating in this event, and I would encourage the team at Rare to stop what they're doing, and reverse course, because the current direction they're taking Sea of Thieves promises boredom, shallow rewards, and hours upon hours of wasted time.
