A heartfelt thank you from a Day One pirate

@wizred007 Indeed matey, SOT is very much alive and means a lot to many of us. There are no other games like it and though some don't get it, we love it.

There are a few who'd wish this game was more like GTA ,COD or Fortnite but those are just the screaming minority; tis us the silent majority who enjoy this game for what it is.

Here is to more days of fun and piracy shenanigans! 🍻

I mean they are deleting all the doubloons you have earned over 8+ years. That feels good to you? That doesn't feel like it's lost its soul? Honestly I would rather them delete my 120 million gold than my precious doubloons since those actually have some things worth buying attached to them. The prices have just been too high to justify on a cosmetic I would rarely use. The problem with making a currency that is more rare than the over abundant amounts of gold. If you didn't play for the first 5 or 6 seasons the amount of doubloons you would need to buy the stuff they had added to the shops is insane. If you are a playstation player that's even worse as they missed almost all those seasonal rewards so will have to buy them all at insane prices. Unless they are only wiping xbox and PC players doubloons which then that would be the only way they could make the situation even worse and more disgusting.

The utter disrespect for our time investments that has happened again and again... Agreed live service games are rough to maintain... But the amount of effort they put in? You have to fix what you add you can't just push out broken or bad content then just write it off as a bad idea when it simply needs improvement. People suggested shrinking hourglass circles what 3 years ago at this point? Now that no ones playing hourglass they decided maybe it's worth an update? Then in 2-3 more years when no ones play hourglass again then what? Delete it like they did arena because they never added new cosmetics to the mode for people to chase? The number of people who did arena and similarly hourglass just for the fun of the combat is an extreme minority. People do it to obtain the cosmetics they want. And such a large gap of no rewards on the road to 1000 is enough to incentivize people from trying much past 100.

I wouldn't even agree that they are taking risks. Is it a risk to add new cargo voyages when you know everyone hates cargo voyages? Or was it a failed attempt to rework something people disliked and hope they wouldn't notice it was just a lazy concept for a season that you could just copy & paste the system? You speak of "passion & care" where? The passion is gone, its all about punishing the players now, finally acting on issues that have plagued the game for years after those same issues pushed away millions of players. That's not passion or care that is neglect. Making a reckless decisions for the sake of spreadsheets and line graphs, adding new things that force the players to redo the same content over and over under some weak excuse l ike "You weren't a captain before, so it makes sense that you have 120 million gold but the game says you have never sold a single treasure!" While at the same time not letting you kick someone off your OWN SHIP that you are supposedly captain of, because that would feel bad for the person getting kicked... Yea you know what feels worse? Deleting our currency that we've been grinding for years.