@galactic-geek said in Embargo lifted! See what the press has to say about the forthcoming Mega Update on 30th April!:

So much to read through! 🤯📚

You can say that again 😰

So much to read through! 🤯📚

The News keeps coming....

another article from

Windows Central

Apr 11, 2019  /  Xbox

Charting Sea of Thieves' future with the game's creators

We sat down with Craig Duncan and Mike Chapman of Rare to learn more about Sea of Thieves' design philosophy and future.

One more great one here by Jack Yarwood from Fanbyte -

For my nephew and I, Sea of Thieves has become an important way of keeping in touch, as it has for many families who play the game. Between his busy social calendar of football and children’s parties and my own hectic freelance career, pencilling in some quality time has become increasingly difficult to arrange. But with the aid of Rare’s shared world adventure game, we’ve been able to hang out and create hilarious and unforgettable memories while on the seas.

https://www.fanbyte.com/features/sea-thieves-family/

@katttruewalker said in Embargo lifted! See what the press has to say about the forthcoming Mega Update on 30th April!:

Another one here from Kotaku -

Sea of Thieves' Producer Outlines a Promising Year Two Plan
The Anniversary Update is ambitious, bringing in many of the things players want. Moving forward, Neate envisions that releases will be smaller and more manageable for the team: a new story chapter here, new voyages and missions there, special cosmetics from time to time. The second year aims to round out the Sea of Thieves experience, but it will hopefully also be done in a way that’s less taxing on the team. It’s a way to make players happy and the workers behind the scene healthy. The end result will hopefully offer an experience that offers something for all kinds of players.

“There should be no reason not to fall in love with Sea of Thieves now,” Neate said.

Jul 3, 2025

Kotaku - Gaming Reviews, News, Tips and More.

Disappointing. Pirate Legend is the end rather than the beginning.

Captaincy is dead as I suspected.

Another one here from Kotaku -

Sea of Thieves' Producer Outlines a Promising Year Two Plan
The Anniversary Update is ambitious, bringing in many of the things players want. Moving forward, Neate envisions that releases will be smaller and more manageable for the team: a new story chapter here, new voyages and missions there, special cosmetics from time to time. The second year aims to round out the Sea of Thieves experience, but it will hopefully also be done in a way that’s less taxing on the team. It’s a way to make players happy and the workers behind the scene healthy. The end result will hopefully offer an experience that offers something for all kinds of players.

“There should be no reason not to fall in love with Sea of Thieves now,” Neate said.

Jul 3, 2025

Kotaku - Gaming Reviews, News, Tips and More.

I’ve just seen some footage of the gameplay for the mega update, it looks absolutely brilliant and I can’t wait to go fishing and cook the fish. This games getting better and better each month 😃

@musicmee said in Embargo lifted! See what the press has to say about the forthcoming Mega Update on 30th April!:

Some epic, epic information here... Cannot wait now for April 30th!

And this guy is going to give me nightmares for days!

Finally I can fight this guy? I hope so! This empty eyes(totaku Gold Hoarder) looking at me from the showcase everyday when I’m sitting on my couch! And I’m thinking only, you’re the next on my list you scurvy greedy sea dog :D

Good stuff

@katttruewalker this month is going to be a busy month as there’s the arena coming and also game of thrones a lot to look forward to.

Apparently that new Banjo we're hearing in the world is the music for fishing!

7 Minutes of Sea of Thieves Cooking and Fishing Gameplay

@oneeyedheathen Yeah, well then it confused the writer, because they seemed to believe that meant you could have "Crews of up to five players." lol.

@entspeak That is what I assumed reading the article, there was a person from another crew with them.

@katttruewalker I don't think they mean ships. In the Daily Star article, it states, "Crews of up to five players...", and later:

In our Tall Tales demo, for example, we had to play through a real 'Indiana Jones moment' - four of our five crew were trapped in a chamber filling with water as we frantically tried to solve a puzzle. The fifth member stood outside - able to hear what's going on, but not do anything about it.

Now, it could be that this particular writer has also attempted to climb the twin peaks of Kilimanjaro, so... maybe an error? But a weird one. Unless, they happened to have a dev member with them from the crew of another ship and were confused.

New achievements coming then it seems...excellent news.

@entspeak Not that we know of, do they mean 5 ships (with crews)?

Is it strange that I almost felt a sense of pride reading some of these articles?

Congratulations to the whole team, this stuff sounds amazing and hats off to what seems to be an incredible amount of work and a job well done! Cannot wait to see how this is received by gamers!

Got to say fishing looks great!
Tall Tales looks awesome.

Can't wait for the 30th, Hurry up clock!

Ohhh it looks like new Xbox Achievements are coming!!!

Shacknews:

Joe: He’s also doing the Achievement names and the best one so far is Hot Tub Crime Machine which is for if you’re sick in the hot tub. Beyond that, we’re always looking at opportunities.

@entspeak

Well this & the speculation video below... starts to make me think so, or at least something is in the works.

The Pirate Lords Vessel... A Mano'War.... possibly a future addition. (towards the end of the Video, it's explained, & hence possible crew size increase).
The only thing that is for certain is they will keep us guessing for a while yet :)

PhuzzyBond - ManoWar Speculation Video

@katttruewalker Okay... I’ve read two of the articles and a common statement is popping out at me... ‘5 crew’. Are they increasing crew size?

@katttruewalker

Our boy Ewan has been a busy boy.

That's a huge & great "retrospective/looking to the future" article!!
Good on him.. think I'll have to go and read over it again.

@piratecraggy

Another one from Ewan -

On feedback and working with the community -

I think we kind of take it from everywhere, whether it’s Twitter or it’s Reddit, it’s the forums, it’s any avenue. It’s videos, it’s however people communicate. We look at it, and we look at the sentiment and we try to figure that into the stuff going forward. Like even traps, that are coming as part of Tall Tales — the Fishing was feedback on more things to do on the ship, like in-between on those on the journeys. We were doing in-between the different Tall Tale quest points you were doing fishing.

Ewan Roxburgh  /  Apr 10, 2019  /  Features

Sea of Thieves' Past, Present and Future - An Interview with Rare