@king-deka AFAIK forts loot still include them and they also wash up on beaches

I agree, I had to literally chase ships (who of course all instantly flee) shouting with the mega phone and spamming in chat to get them to follow me to reapers and hand in!

One Question I didn’t participate in this Event! Cause I’m playing Arena for the 240 Wins! How I can find these Gifts right now without Voyage?

It's literally reasons like this that have caused me to push for rotating the events and original cosmetics.

I could totally go on a rant, but I'm so tired of typing all day 🙌

Hopefully you'll be able to have a second chance at redemption on this. At least if we could get more of a backing from the community.

@daringclarky It does kind of feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders... But at the same time, I worry that I'll start playing less as a result of this experience, and that's exactly what I don't want. Having time-limited content to coerce people into playing was a mistake, I think. They easily could have made gifts, and the associated commendations, permanent and a lot harder to find or achieve. There is literally no reason not to other than to create artificial desirability. That tells me that even the developers don't think their game is good enough to entertain on its own merits. For a game that pushes experiences and horizontal progression, I do think they dropped the ball on this 1...

Much sadness. Tried as I might -
Gift Giving Event was a hard sell.

Whaaaaat? Too bad we weren't on the same servers. I'm a "do anything for a buck" kind of Pirate-Girl :)

@galactic-geek said in Welp, it finally happened...:

I have sailed the Sea of Thieves since before the beginning, have amassed a fortune, survived many adventures, cast away the lives of numerous others, and completed everyth...

Well, that is until now. You see, I have prided myself on completing every single time-limited event and commendation. That ended today.

And you know what? I have you to blame. No, not Rare; you - the community. You call yourselves pirates, yet you couldn't bring yourself to steal my gifts or even take them from me when I offered them freely. When you did take them, you refused to turn them in, despite being worth dubloons. I sat for hours each day with a Reaper's Mark and even braved the Reaper's Chest to entice you to come to the Reaper's Hideout, but you did not come. Even with a treasure trove to go along with it, I was still left to my lonesome.

Pirates? Please... You're not even worth being called thieves!

You have disappointed me. Greatly.

If you are unlucky enough to have a gift-giver tattoo and are not a member of my crew, I will vanquish you on the spot simply out of spite for what you have and that which I do not.

You have been warned.

Happy sailing! 😈

I feel your pain matey.
At least now you are freed from the burden of the completionist.

Its a very human moment to have your pirate experience something such as this. I hope the tides turn more fairer in future.

I'm sorry to hear about your luck mate 😢 Had I known you were really trying for this, and had I been able to help, I would have without any hesitation!

Speaking of which, depending on how many gifts you need, and if the Commendations are still available, I do have three regular gift seeker voyages still, as well as one of legends! In case you were only a few gifts away, we could always still try if possible!

Also, if you ever need someone to help you out with limited time stuff, which I have also posted about, feel free to let me know and I'll do my best to assist!!!

My gamertag on Xbox is Zevaryian as well, so it shouldn't be too hard to find me 😊

This event seems t have been poorly received which is a shame, as it was not my experience.

My gifts were largely given in 3 groups. All three were to crews who were clearly new (one I chased down, he rammed into the rocks, I repaired his ship and killed him twice in self defence, and he finally realized what was happening when I was holding a gift as he loaded in). All three of these encounters, I personally escorted the player to the hideout and carried them over for them. All three times, were positive experiences which I think will greatly increase the odds of those players continuing to play this game. IMO it was an interesting change to the regular events

We had a few instances where we had to force people to take our gifts and turn them in.

After trying to be diplomatic in every instance, even offering loot as payment, we were often met with zero communication and either hostility or cowardice. We were left with no alternatives but to take control of their ships and get them to respond in some way or another view GameChat, Messages, or Hop Up/Down for Yes/No. The other crews, being our captives, were left with 2 choices: turn in our gifts and be left in peace with their ship and loot, or we strip their ship of everything and sink them.

It got the job done pretty quick, but I know this isn't an option for everyone.

@nunoazuldimeter
That's how I gave a lot of my gifts as well. :D We really had to force the issue.
I will say this - we never had a session where we had gifts and didn't get anyone to turn them in.
I sailed in a galleon, tracked down other ships, and offered our gifts. Most of the time, we found new, unexperienced players, and escorted them to the Reaper's Hideout - one way or the other.

It was definitely something not worth doing passively. It was more like door-to-door sales, lol - Pirate style. "Arrr, would ya be interested in FREE GIFTS worth DOUBLOONS!! Aye, we not be aceptin NO as an answerr, so just be on yer way with us to the hideout, or we be forcin ya to do so. Happy Festival of Givin'!!! Yarrr!" :oP

In the end, each and every crew we did this with grew to enjoy the experience and had fun with us though.

Also, @Galactic-Geek while these pirates may not have taken your free loot... they robbed yee of the real treasure you were seeking. :/

Yeah, I don't know how I would have done with this commendation if I was solo slooping (which I used to do all the time). Doing this with a galleon crew was definitely easier. Most sloops are rather glad when we pull up to them (or board and anchor them) only to find out we don't want to sink them and actually are glad to give them stuff (and an alliance for all our other treasure, if they're nice enough).

@galactic-geek

We forced people to sell ours...
We came to people (who didn't welcome us) and we responded to their attacks, killing them and hijacking their ships to Reaper's Hiddout. Most of the time they realized we only wanted to offer Doubloons mid-way there.... It was fun tho.

However,
I felt the same lack of knowledge around the event and how to do it.

It's not that Rare is doing something wrong, players simple don't care about knowing about stuff... They login, they play for a bit and left. It's a casual gaming sessions. Most people do not drop them selves in the medias and communities to get news about monthly events.

We do, but we Love and live the game and the community, this one.

I also play another games that I don't care about community and dive into news and stuff...

For me it was the same thing. I've tried in many ways to get cooperation to get the commendation and title, but after the first week was over it seemed like no one was interested in this anymore. I checked again one week later and it still was silent at the RH. After that I quickly went back to the regular stuff I do as a pirate. Sailing, fishing and looting :)

Yea this gift giving event was a total nightmare I didn't finish it all until the last week and I had to park island and wait hours just to have someone show up to hand in the gifts while trying to kill me at the same time.
I knew right from the start that it was going to be a hair puller of an event.

Well I'm off to get my tattoo set 😁

@lord-szarvas said in Welp, it finally happened...:

I don't think that the gift update was well received.

I found it difficult to find people to turn the gifts in too. I've had 3-4 hour play sessions where the first thing I did was drop off gifts for people to turn in. People didn't care.

I did get the achievement, but I guess I was lucky enough to find the right people at the right time.

Another hard commendation that was like this one is the Arena commendation for getting players to raise a grog in the hot tub and play an instrument on the stage. It was painful to actually get these ones done as most people were either AFK or they just didn't care..

Any commendation that requires other people to get done is going to be extremely difficult to complete after the first few days which is why I cringe when people suggest events that "require the whole server to complete". Please god no.

I got lucky and was able to find another crew to turn a large bulk of mine in (and they had no idea about the event or what to do so I walked them through it and explained), and a few got turned in after being left at her feet randomly while I did other things.

IMO Rare did not really think this one through.

As many have already stated on this post, I suffered the same frustration. You couldn't even give gifts away, the only thing you got was blunder to the face and the gifts would just sit.

I was able to complete the self turn-in commendations, but not the 'give a gift'. So frustrating!!!

We found what appeared to be new players, enticed them with free loot and doubloons. Worked twice. But we all were exhausted with this update. I still need two stolen rag and bones. Found two randomly on beaches and hoped they would count but they don't. Still have 2 bones voyages sitting in my inventory for when that special moment happens.

It sure was a grind but I'm glad I managed to get it done.

Only really bad day I had was the one where I spent two and a half hours on RH waiting for someone to come by. After about an hour I nearly sailed away but then remembered the server merges. In hindsight, I should have just loaded them back on the ship. Eventually, I gave up, sold them all (despite not needing to) and went to North Star to sell some fish I had caught while waiting. I looked back at the island and... yep... there was a ship had just arrived. facepalm

@galactic-geek said in Welp, it finally happened...:

I have sailed the Sea of Thieves since before the beginning, have amassed a fortune, survived many adventures, cast away the lives of numerous others, and completed everyth...

Well, that is until now. You see, I have prided myself on completing every single time-limited event and commendation. That ended today.

And you know what? I have you to blame. No, not Rare; you - the community. You call yourselves pirates, yet you couldn't bring yourself to steal my gifts or even take them from me when I offered them freely. When you did take them, you refused to turn them in, despite being worth dubloons. I sat for hours each day with a Reaper's Mark and even braved the Reaper's Chest to entice you to come to the Reaper's Hideout, but you did not come. Even with a treasure trove to go along with it, I was still left to my lonesome.

Pirates? Please... You're not even worth being called thieves!

You have disappointed me. Greatly.

If you are unlucky enough to have a gift-giver tattoo and are not a member of my crew, I will vanquish you on the spot simply out of spite for what you have and that which I do not.

You have been warned.

Happy sailing! 😈

Dude I was heading to the RH the other day because a reapers ship was just sitting there. I was hoping someone like you were there with gifts. On the way there the reaper ship just disappeared! I was sad. I'm not kidding!

I’ll chime in and say this was the least exciting event to me. I also barely played due to my job during the entire month of December. I really hope their next event for the holidays is better than this.

And bring back the holiday themed music in the tavern!!!

@Galactic-Geek

@x5h3ar3rx sagte in Welp, it finally happened...:

opens vanity chest puts away giver of gifts title 👀🏃‍♂️

Honestly never thought this would be so difficult to achieve.. I just put them all on a rowboat and did a drive by and dropped it off right infornt of ships 🤣

Goes to vanity chest and thinksbiver to change from Hunter of the Shrouded Ghost to Giver of Gifts 🤔

A FotD crew we sunk in the end helped us to get the last gifts selled.
We made several Alliances and asked others before and during xmas and all went good.
I feel for you.

Me missing some bosses and 40 FotD to have all completed since day 1.

But i can assure you i will miss the entire July this year for travel and festival Business.
I will get over it - eventually 😂

@nofears-fun said in Welp, it finally happened...:

@closinghare208 @entspeak Stop calling her wanda, she last went by warsmith. LOL

well that was her human name and the name we rember her by lol

@closinghare208 @entspeak Stop calling her wanda, she last went by warsmith. LOL