Rare is a company with the main goal of making money, but they made a game with two types of players hard core pvp'ers(10%) and Chill players(90%). Right now the game heavily supports
pvp'ers and over the last five and a half years has driven away all the Chill players, which is why the game is dead. In response Rare has attempted to
bring them back with safer seas but it's not good enough, there are few options that will lead to the success of SOT and I will list all of them here.
Rare needs get rid of safer seas and instead add a ranked match making so people that that want to fish and dig for treasures or drink at the bar can
do so with other players, and people that just want pvp and plunder can do that. It's very very importani that pvpers and Chill players are NEVER in the same lobby because IT WILL ALWAYS END WITH SOMEONE UNINSALLING THE GAME.
Or rework the selling in the game if somebody digs up treasure for an hour and someone steals it in ten minutes the person that dug it up should still get 50% and the person that stole it should get 10% of the gold.(it would be different if people only stole everything from you once a month or once every couple of weeks but you get robed every couple of hours)
I recommend doing both /\
Rare needs to make the game 100%able this means to add a way to get all the limited time items like day one eyepatch, ferryman outfit or all the battle pass items ect. Whether it's through a real dollar amount or a very high in game amount because the FOMA is a very bad feeling, matched with the fact most people already don't like the game doesn't make good odds they will come back and stay. And also
this game is so old I'm sure someone playing it is younger than the game it's self.
They need to add all the limited time missions like the Megalodon
This is going to be the hardest pill for current players to swallow Rare need to soft reboot the game. Do not underestimate the hatred people have for this game they will not come back for an update you need to reboot. This means redo the menus(you can tell over the years they keep adding and adding, eventually making the Frankenstein of a menu today). They need to rearrange the islands a bit or
add some with the thought of a row boat. They need to improve the servers. They need to put the game
onto other platforms like ps5 or Nintendo switch. They need to add life to the game with NPCs in the
bar and on your ship. And most importantly they need to reset everyone's levels and gold.(keep any
real money purchases obviously)
But they should also add a bunch of things every one wants like the ice biome or a fight with a man o war
And maybe update the combat system because it's very niche. But for ship combat you should be able to pull up the ladder so it's not all about getting on there ship and spawn killing them. And even if you do get on the ship you should be at a bigger disadvantage
by using the NPCs to also attack you. This will make it more about actual ship combat.
Maybe update to unreal engine 5
But if Rare does do this THEY WILL NEED TO DO IT ALL AT ONCE BECAUSE IT WILL NOT WORK IF YOU DRIP FEED IT.
It will not be easy or soon but it's necessary. And what a better time to do it other than right after season 10.
