The game has turned into a fantasy wizard game it feels.

I sort of agree.

The difference with me is that the glowie bits don't turn me off the experience.
It's a fantasy pirate game. So I'd expect fantasy lore in the age of sail.

Instead, I show my disdain for the glowie bits by never using them.
My boat, my weapons, and especially my attire do not glow like a teenager at a concert.
I'm not the only one that thinks the Silent Barnacle set is the sailor set for veteran players.

Sure a lot of the cosmetics can seem more like WoW than SoT, but I prefer to dress like the able bodied seaman instead of a warlock.

The only thing of mine that glows are my eyes.

Even when I reached Athena level 20, I try to dress like a pirate, I don't like ripped pants smeared with phosphorus, hot metal on a ship and other glowing things.
Why is the belt at the waist as wide as a barrel hoop?

And it's great! Keep the spells and magic items coming—the glowier, the better.

@gallerine5582 said in The game has turned into a fantasy wizard game it feels.:

I'm not sure, it might just be me but ever since the launch of tall tales the game feels more like a fairy tale game than actual pirates. I've only really noticed it recently how everything is glowing or doing something unnatural, things like the ghost set was really the limit for me because it was in the game forever and it felt like Ferry of the Damned style, and was the only glowing thing that was available. Now everything feels like a Neon fashion show. Everything is too bright and nothing actually reminds me of "this is the golden age of piracy" and more "this is another video game".

The emporium certainly hasn't helped that. Every set nowadays is either glowing or has something that doesn't relate to Rare, Sea of thieves, or pirates. The rogue tinkerer set, for example, looks like we're about the enter the steampunk age with the captain set costume having a robotic arm (?), however the weapons feel nice because they're rough and feel like they're made of actual materials, which brings me to the other ship sets; Sea of Sands and Frozen Horizen. Don't get me wrong they look amazing, but it doesn't feel pirate, it doesn't feel like it's made of actual materials, never melting ice for weapons and figureheads, and literal genie lamps for the Sea of Sands, how does that relate to the sea of thieves WHATSOEVER. Emotes are another thing of mine that I don't really like the path it took, at the beginning, it was fine with the Bilge rat and Order of souls emote sets that let you role play as a Bilge rat or Order of souls representative, but again it drifted away from pirates and "Sea of Thieves" with things like "Bangarang", "Thud dance" and "Popcorn". It's starting to feel a lot like Fortnite except not a battle royale.
And the ingame gold/doubloon shop items look great, but every new set to come to them is a reskin recently, with the Admiral (I think, can't remember), Kraken and Parrot, and don't even get me started on the seventeen damned reskins of the Mercenary/Black dog set.
I'm not saying EVERY SINGLE SET needs to be related to sea of thieves but it's just starting to not feel like pirates anymore, and as said, a fantasy game with ashen lords and ghost ships.
I dunno maybe it's just me but I feel Sea of Thieves isn't Sea of Thieves so much as Sea of Glowy things anymore...

Because the game is not 18 rated there is only so much you can do.

A proper pirate game in my opinion would be slitting peoples throats and visiting the various establishments at port. Dodging the navy, sneaking into towns, capturing towns of your own and generally making yourself infamous and rich.

You cant really achieve that when its kid friendly.

@gallerine5582 If I could like this post 1000 times, I would.

@shadow20642 Whoever told you that to have realistic cosmetics the game needs to be R+18 rated is wrong, the game started out with only the ghost set as glowy and it was fine, still PG rated, so idk what your point is since it USED to be OK and now it's just turned into a neon fashion show

@nyr1n I understand to make things sell they need fancy stuff but the game survived for a whole year without any of that at launch, with the exception of the ghost set. I'm not saying the entire game needs to be realistic cause then I'd roleplay pirates on Rust or something, I'm just saying I'm getting a bit sick of every single cosmetic set to come out, that isn't a recolour, blinding me every time I see a ship.

@nic727 Literally, the trailers used to be cool now it just feels like I'm watching the News for something I'm actually interested in, not the hyped up launch for something that feels like a movie. I think the issue was they have limited themselves by putting out monthly updates instead of taking their time like the Devils roar or Skeleton ship updates.

@gallerine5582 said in The game has turned into a fantasy wizard game it feels.:

@shadow20642 Whoever told you that to have realistic cosmetics the game needs to be R+18 rated is wrong, the game started out with only the ghost set as glowy and it was fine, still PG rated, so idk what your point is since it USED to be OK and now it's just turned into a neon fashion show

Who said anything about cosmetics?

Realism wouldnt suit this game.

@shadow20642 Actually my entire post is 80% about cosmetics, a bit about ashen lords and flameheart's stuff.
I'm not talking realistic game mechanics I'm talking cosmetics like the mercenary set or admiral. I want things that look like they're made of normal person materials not Cyberseas 1677

I strongly agree they need to stop making joke sets like crab and parrot (which no one likes) and make cosmetics that actually look piratey.

@soyabean566 I have seen a couple people that unironically like the sets, but I feel like most, or plenty of people use it cause they find it looks a bit over the top, but even then they're made of materials that could be replicated irl but things like the Ashen dragon or Frozen horizon are completely off the charts

@gallerine5582 said in The game has turned into a fantasy wizard game it feels.:

@shadow20642 Actually my entire post is 80% about cosmetics, a bit about ashen lords and flameheart's stuff.
I'm not talking realistic game mechanics I'm talking cosmetics like the mercenary set or admiral. I want things that look like they're made of normal person materials not Cyberseas 1677

Oh my apologies i thought you meant something else.

I think cosmetics are fine though. They fit the cartoony nature of the game. I agree with @galactic-geek in that why not have both?

Choosing what you want is more fun than being restricted.