@chris5626 said in Sea of Thieves Coming to Steam! Discussion and Feedback:

@kush-n-bacon420 said in Sea of Thieves Coming to Steam! Discussion and Feedback:

@iwin2ez You will be able to use your same Xbox/Microsoft account once you have the game purchased in steam, but you will need to purchase it in steam before you can use it that way.

Are you a Rare employee? Have you played the upcoming Steam version and that's why you can confirm this yourself? Or is this just speculation stated as fact?

If this is official information, then why are you allowed to talk about it but no actual Rare employee will address it? Are there even community managers working at Rare anymore? I for one will be pretty irritated if I have to repurchase the game on Steam to play it there.

@musicmee said in Sea of Thieves Coming to Steam! Discussion and Feedback:

if you would like to use Steam storefront to purchase the game you will have to repurchase the game there.

@musicmee said in Sea of Thieves Coming to Steam! Discussion and Feedback:

You will be able to use your same Xbox/Microsoft account once you have the game purchased in steam, but you will need to purchase it in steam before you can use it that way.

He asked how does he know this informations

@zare759 Because he is one of the moderators and this is how Microsoft handle all of their new games being released on Steam from Windows Store/XBox. It's treated as a different storefront entirely so if you want to own it there as well you need to buy it there as well and your progress is tied to your Microsoft account which is required to play the game no matter where you purchased it from or how you launch it.

@kush-n-bacon420 Not sure why you made the decision to be rude to someone who was trying to help answer your query.

You asked a question you got an answer. @Musicmee might be "nothing more than a forum moderator" but that doesn't mean you need to be rude to him/her (or others) and it still means he is likely kept better informed than most of us, besides Microsoft seem unlikely to change the business practice they have used for all their other published games in the same circumstances purely for this one title especially since it states on the Steam store page that you need a Microsoft account to play and your progress is tied to your Microsoft account.

If you aren't happy with the response, or lack thereof, from Rare then perhaps it is them you should be directing your attention to rather than those trying to help you?

I can't believe we would have to buy the game again. Rude move, Rare. :(

@musicmee lol! we got your back Musicmee! dont you worry buddy!

@musicmee I bought this game 2 years ago on my Xbox. Do I have to repurchase it to play it on my PlayStation 4? (Sarcasm) LOL! Doing a great job sir.... keep us straight.

40 bucks?

Big oof.

@l4chsfps I thought it would be 60 honestly, I am relieved lol

Not really happy that I have to drop another 40 bucks to get this via Steam. I'll hold off and see how the cross play works. Might not need to buy it.

I wanted SoT on steam because I didn't have windows 10 so I couldn't buy it. What's the point of it coming to steam when it still requires windows 10?

So you can buy the game on Steam and use multiple Xbox accounts? That's not very fair.

Exciting news!

Oof though, wish there was a way to search this whole thread (probably is? I'm not here often...). I own this as-is currently without Steam, understand that I'd need to re-purchase for Steam. Looking for others who are going to be testing this on Steam via Proton for Linux. I've fallen way off of playing this as it became the one and only Windows game I cannot get operating on Linux. Would love to be on front lines testing this, learning what issues & caveats there could be - including any "gotchas" on Rare's side such as viewing a proton'd/ wine'd SoT instance as some kind of cheat/hack and thus getting banned for it. Curious if the Insider Crew would get early Steam access to test all that ahead of time?

Completely understandable that Rare might not want to comment or even acknowledge any of the above, but nonetheless there's a niche of us ready to jump onboard this. Literally dozens of us! :D

@lordfoxsnow8849 said in Sea of Thieves Coming to Steam! Discussion and Feedback - Releasing June 3rd!:

@musicmee said in Sea of Thieves Coming to Steam! Discussion and Feedback - Releasing June 3rd!:

@matamore1993 There will not - you will need to purchase the game on that marketplace to play there.

Hi! Well, just bought the game 2 months ago and if I would have known the release would have been so close, I would have waited. Rare could at least look into offering at a lower price for existing owners, no? I think by reading the comments, I am not the only one who feels that's way and Rare should at leat consider some options. That would be a nice move from them. I absolutely love the game and I really understand the team behind it is working hard and they need to get revenue for their work but on the other hand, it's not great that we have to repurchase the same game on the same plateform(PC). In Canadian dollars, that's close to 60$ Urrrrghhh!

You don't have to repurchase it, you can just carry on playing on ms store, no one is forcing you to. The release has been teased for a long time now. :)

Can you now play on Mac?

@skylerpk said in Sea of Thieves Coming to Steam! Discussion and Feedback - Releasing June 3rd!:

Can you now play on Mac?

Sea of Thieves Steam FAQ:

Do I have to be running Windows 10 to play?

Yes. For this game to work, users must be running the Windows 10 operating system.

Unless you have Windows 10 installed on Bootcamp on your Mac, you're not going to be able to play it there.