The insistence on replaying the same content over and over for rewards is killing the game for me.

Rare doesn't force you. Yet, he/she is right. Repeating things is not new content.

@japollo-93 The only one forcing you to spam all tall tales for all the rewards is yourself.

Take me, for example. I'm only interested in the Magpie's Wing cannons and Briggsy's Sails, while the others aren't really my style for the look I want for my ship

I just start a new sailor its great on first turn in its like hitting a casino jackpot with commendations, achievements popping up! Soon i can buy new sails ^^

To the people saying no one is forcing me, you are right.

However I want the gold curse, so I have to. That doesn't mean its enjoyable or right to repeat the content.

I'll have done 45 voyages for the tall tales once I finish, and then if I counted all the times I ran them with friends to help them it turns into a lot more than 45.

Now I've done 8 5/5 and just have 9 to do another 2 times, I absolutely hate them.

You don't have to do anything.

Play Sea of Thieves the way you like to play. Do the stuff you enjoy. Don't focus on getting a pixellated rendition of hat or coat that you will hardly wear - or even the gold curse.

It's a first-person perspective game. You won't see your clothes - or the curse - anyway, after the load screen. If anything, all you really need are nice looking sleeves, and gloves or a hook, if you choose to use either. :-)

SoT has only 2 parts.

1. Fetch Quest; whether via voyages or Tall Tales....everything boils down to fetch quests.
2. PvP; since players are constantly grinding fetch quests, they 'should' have loot on board for PvPers to fight for/over.

That's it. That's the "gameplay" of SoT.

Which leads to my answer for the OP.
The "replaying the same content over and over for rewards" is the easiest way for.....

1. Rare to develop additional content
2. artificially increase play time

Except, now the ultimate purpose is revealed....one can circumvent the egregiously grindy fetch quest gameplay by simply purchasing the cosmetic; sans grind.

The only content that I would think of as actual content has been the PvE elements (ships/megs/additional islands) and Arena.
But even these get blended up and boiled down into the highly repetitive tasks that are still just fetch quests for the sake of PvP.

Please don't take my summary of this game as though I'm saying, "it's doomed" or "I hate this game".

I'm simply being honest about what is right in front of us.

The simple solution is to not do it all at once. There are several things to do in the game. merchant voyages, Gold horder, OoS each with a whole stack of commendations to earn. Hunters call, Arena, Skull Forts, FotD, Forsaken Voyages, Athena Quests (and all their commendations), Megladon hunting, Bilge Rats commendations.

If your tired of doing tall tales do something else for a bit and go back for it. Or speedrun the tall tales. i did Shores of Gold 5 times in one night just speedrunning it. it doesn't take that long to do.

What I will say though, is I do think the bosses need more work. Briggsy, Graymarrow and the Gold Horder. The fights are not difficult just tedious. If there was some more skill involved than just button mashing and running to ammo boxes and barrels for food while 20 blundy skeletons attack you it would be better. A more skilled fight rather than what it currently is. Aside from that just mix up your play a bit. There is plenty to do in the game you don't have to mash one thing all out at once.

If you want the gold curse then speedrun the TT's. Do one tall tale back to back a day. Shouldn't take more than a week to finish them all if you just speedrun them.

@japollo-93 said in The insistence on replaying the same content over and over for rewards is killing the game for me.:

I've reached the point where I look forward to being able to quit SoT for the day as I've done a repeat of another tall tale.

I understand needing something to lock away rewards, but forcing players to run quests, tall tales 5 times through is beyond fair.

I enjoyed the tall tales the first 2 run throughs. Now I've done 8 5/5 and just have 9 to do another 2 times, I absolutely hate them. I don't enjoy anything about them as I'm being forced to replay the same content over and over.

How are you forced? I never was told I had to do them, I did them because I enjoyed them and I did them 5x each so I could get a reward that a lot of people wouldn't bother with.

Why can't we have new content rather than replay old stuff over and over and over and over to fill in the time.

There has been lots of new content and they continue to add things

@japollo-93

Sea of Thieves is under the "Games as a Service" model, so that means that Rare don't want to find themselves in a situation where players are "exhausting" content in the game and constantly have reasons to go back and engage with existing content for a long time to come.

I'm totally on board with long term goals and lofty achievements that few can earn, but I'd also like to see these commendations add new twists, turns, and challenges as we get closer to completing them.

I really like Red Dead Redemption 2's Single Player challenges. For example the "Bandit" challenges in single player were really fun while also being a bit tough to complete. Like Bandit challenge #1 was "hold up 5 townsfolk", and then the second Bandit challenge was "Rob 2 Coaches", #3 was "Rob the cash registers of 4 different shops in one day"

If you complete all 10 levels of Bandit challenges, you got a special Bandolier, Gun Holster, and Off Holster set. And I just thought how cool it would be if Sea of Thieves commendations worked like this. I think they could design commendations this way and it would still fall in line with Sea of Thieves' game design.