Well , I must say , when I heard sea of thieves for the first time it was because of one of my friends , I said to him , we should make a game together because he is a genius in codes and I'm a good designer , I said to him , we should make something with pirates , just like Pirates of the Caribbean style , so he sat there and listened but after 30 minutes he is like "are you talking about sea of thieves?" I was so confused , I asked him "what are you talking about?" and he said , there is a game like this , good thing I managed to hear that on time and joined the beta for a couple of days.
me and my friend played a bit , and we had a blast , but there are some problems with this game , and the question "is it worth it" comes to our minds more than once.
I'm not gonna talk about the price, just about the things that should be changed , and if not then I cant see a lot of future for this game.
so this is my point of view and my friend's :
Look , its a great game , I mean , where else can you take a boat by yourself , play cool music , hunt treasures with a shovel and solve riddles? NO WHERE.
this game is probably the game with the most potential in 2018 imo.
but things should be changed , not a couple , a lot.
so heres what I wanna see , and ill talk in the name of my friend too (with consent :) ) :
lets start with the LACK OF CONTENT yea , I know , ya'll gonna scream BETA BETA BETA , but hold on.
so far , the voyages are pretty easy , and the skins are not very unique and expensive... which makes me wonder how much time the content will last.
I mean ofc you can go out there and roam the sea , meet new pirates and drink rum , its all fun , but u cannot do it forever.]
we wanna see competition , fight with other crews for a long voyage in order to get 1 chest , not 5.
the best crew will get the chest , the others NOTHING.
this will make chests really worthy and satisfying.
so how you gonna do it ? pretty simple , your gonna make an npc , that says what voyages are out there , how many signed and when everyone signs all of the teams get the first riddle , which makes it fair for all the boats.
lets talk a bit about the riddles , imo they are wayyy to easy , so why not get a little tricky today , I see the gaming community dying with the years , making the games easier and easier and its sad. (biggest example for it is world of Warcraft / maplestory , used to be hard , easy af now)
so how can you fix that? simple. make each boat collect few items from few different islands , when all the items are on the boat in a big basket , take the basket to the last island , spread the items in a cerain shape and play a shanty to get the next riddle , quite hard isn't it? exactly. that's what we need. if you wanna get that gold , you will hustle for it.
and if you cant see the point of that , that is a huge improvement to the all pvp system , if you need to go and gather lets say rum bottles from 1 island and the other team is there as well , I can see a big fight happening there for these items which will lead you to the treasure (ofc you need to make a spawn timer for the items that you need to collect)
now , when we are done with the riddles , and gold making , I wont waste time talking about new weapons , tools , clothes , and many more upgrades cause I'm sure the team is working on it as I write this thread.
now lets talk about the world , I can appreciate the size of the map , and all the islands that are well made , but imo everyone would love to download 30 more gigs to get a bigger world , more islands , more challenging skeletons instead of 3 rushing you with a sword.
now I will suggest a randomizer , it sounds crazy but lets say people are going into a match , I'm not sure if its possible , make it a 2-3 minutes draft till it finds 30-40 people and then let all of them join at once in the same map but the islands location is random , that would make it even harder , cause atm , I can solve a riddle in a second since I know where each island is.
Disconnection problems - I bet you will fix that
friends system , now this is a big factor in the game , I don't get it , why we need to do everything from the g******n xbox app? make it like an shift tab like steam , do a friends system that will let your friend join you back if he got dced , and if not , at least add an option to do reconnect incase you got dced , give the player at least 3 minutes to come back before you wipe his ship with treasures on the way to the outpost , nothing worse than your game crashing with 6 chests on the boat 1 minute away from the outpost.
I have many more critics , but this is enough. I don't wanna be too harsh.
I WILL NOT CANCEL MY PRE ORDER , but I would appreciate if you guys would read that and take this into consideration.
Thank you.
me and my friends.
