Content creators do a horrible job of representing casual players.
Most content creators only play half of the game meaning they only like to PvP and most like to PvP against random crews in adventure versus skilled crews in hourglass.
Content creators will blatantly lie and say something like, “battling other crews just for the sake of battling isn’t fun”, or “if there’s no loot then there’s no point.” Most content creators do not care about loot, gold or reputation at all. What they care about is their win ratio. They don’t want to lose. They don’t want a challenge or a struggle. They just want business as usual, easy sinks.
Content creators and Rare’s “random” matchmaking in adventure mode are the primary reasons why many players end up hating PvP.
You don’t put the equivalent of professional athletes against toddlers and expect the toddlers to enjoy the experience. That is insane logic.
Don’t forget how content creators got Rare to embrace stealth in the form of hide emotes that make veteran players practically invisible to new players.
Rare got away with bad game design for years and years. Eventually though poor retention runs its course and less and less new players try out the game.
Don’t forget that Rare refuses to provide a PvE only experience with all PvE content available in spite of knowing that not everybody enjoys PvP.
Don’t forget that Rare refuses to balance adventure mode for solo players in spite of knowing that some people enjoy playing solo and full crews vs solo players is undoubtedly unfair and very imbalanced.
Don’t forget that Rare locked two of the most desirable curses behind a PvP mode with absolutely no PvE alternative path to unlock them but you can loss farm them.
Don’t forget that Rare cannot introduce new features without also introducing new bugs.
Rare deserves everything that is happening to them. Rare is lucky the game was as successful as it was for so long.
Unless the attitude of the people in charge at Rare changes drastically expect a continued decline.
Season 15 if it is a massive Hunter’s Call expansion will be good for the health of the game. Do you know why? Because casual players love PvE updates.
Sea of Thieves is a good PvE game and a mediocre if not poor PvP game. And yet Rare takes 5 years to add a useless safer seas and an extra year to make it slightly less punishing depending on what you value more reputation or gold.
So yeah content creators demolishing noob crews is bad for the game but who’s really responsible for enabling it.
Rare.
