Sea Of Thieves Community Day - Post discussion

Sunday GMT is bad timing for players in AU/NZ/parts of Asia. Event launches late Sunday night and rolls over to a weekday. Most of us are at work/school therefore miss out. Saturday would give most of the world some weekend play time.

What went well?

• Everything worked

What didn't go well?

• community throwing a fit over server crashing or unable to login. Blaming the dev and such.

What should they continue doing?

• Being themselves and showing the community they are listening and will keep moving forward.

What should they do differently?

• nothing much. They tried something “New” and it worked for most part but it wasn’t A huge fail. Maybe next time, don’t make it into a day? Or spread it out across weekday/end

What the community as a whole should do?

• give the dev a break and relax. Nothing ever goes right with a huge update anyways, this was expected and everyone is striking out how disappointed they are with Rare it sad.
  We all missed out. Some didn’t but good chunk did but complaining like it’s the end of the world is not the way to go.

Running it from 12am UTC Saturday through 11:59pm UTC Sunday would seem to be the most logical change.

Having it over two days would spread the load a bit and those hours would allow the majority to make the most of it.

I’d say have the in-game cosmetic rewards available all weekend but keep the biggest rep/gold multipliers to Sunday. That way, those who care mostly about the cosmetics will try to get on early (Saturday) and those in it for the gold will prioritise Sunday.

Maybe do more Twitch Drops and have them be a bit more unique (the tankard was already a drop). Have multiple drops available all weekend, not just the one day, and allow viewers to get them in one day if they want. It’s great to get nice unlocks to celebrate but, please, minimise FOMO - that only seems to lead to bitterness.

Rare should get in touch with their Partners to organise a proper event. A lot of them have experience organising these things. Do a charity drive, they tend to pull everyone together and if it can be tied into the game somehow, all the better.

And, please, don’t make big negative announcements a few days beforehand (closing Arena).

@realstyli oh yea let’s make twitch and discord a priority so the “content creators” don’t miss out. Yes that should definitely be the priority. Gaming is dead.

@louiscyphere1 said in Sea Of Thieves Community Day - Post discussion:

@realstyli oh yea let’s make twitch and discord a priority so the “content creators” don’t miss out. Yes that should definitely be the priority. Gaming is dead.

Oh I am very well aware of the anti-streamer sentiment among a very vocal minority on here. But, whether you want to admit it or not, the Sea of Thieves community on Twitch is significant and streaming is part of gaming culture now. Even an old man like me can see that reality.

It was a disaster all around, there is no point sugar coating it. Respect to the devs for working the weekend to try and fix it, but how does this happen again and again? This isn’t their first rodeo. The feedback from social media is mostly expected and I have not seen any harassment, just frustration.

Rare have a podcast coming up soon where they plan to discuss server problems. This will be very interesting to listen to off of the back of this.

Rare got a ton of publicity from using the community to trend hashtags and the such, and it all blew up in their face unfortunately. Even people who aren’t playing Sea of Thieves saw this mess. I really hope this puts a priority on their consistent server issues.

@satanicnemesis

This time around at least, it appears to be an Xbox issue, according to the Xbox Live Status page, and not specific to Sea of Thieves. The Xbox Live issues started around 2pm GMT yesterday, which lines up with when folks starting having problems logging in.

It's not the same issue as when data was lost on previous incidents, as it was affecting initial logging in this time around. Rewards, admittedly, were delayed but as far as I could see they were still being tracked.

Because of demographical time constraints, our UK/NA crew have a small window of time to plan a sail together and unfortunately none of us could join yesterday. It is what it is, I know, just maybe a community weekend would help spread the love out a bit and reduce the load..

@realstyli said in Sea Of Thieves Community Day - Post discussion:

@satanicnemesis

This time around at least, it appears to be an Xbox issue, according to the Xbox Live Status page, and not specific to Sea of Thieves.

I am of the understanding the XBL issue is party chat related which may or may not be linked to SoT. Rare have not given any indication the SoT matchmaking issue was the result of an XBOX Live issue on Microsoft’s end. The SoT Support Twitter specifically stated it was because of the playerbase trying to all log in at the same time which caused issues.

@satanicnemesis

It's a back end process from Xbox Live that caused the issues and it was out of Rare's hands. At the time of my last reply, Sea of Thieves was not singled out for matchmaking issues, only Party Chat issues mentioned the game. In hindsight, I probably should have screenshotted that rather than linking to a live status page. In any case, I've heard through good sources that this was a third party tool issue, not a Sea of Thieves specific problem.

@burnbacon dijo en Sea Of Thieves Community Day - Post discussion:

What went well?

• Everything worked

What didn't go well?

• community throwing a fit over server crashing or unable to login. Blaming the dev and such.

What should they continue doing?

• Being themselves and showing the community they are listening and will keep moving forward.

What should they do differently?

• nothing much. They tried something “New” and it worked for most part but it wasn’t A huge fail. Maybe next time, don’t make it into a day? Or spread it out across weekday/end

What the community as a whole should do?

• give the dev a break and relax. Nothing ever goes right with a huge update anyways, this was expected and everyone is striking out how disappointed they are with Rare it sad.
  We all missed out. Some didn’t but good chunk did but complaining like it’s the end of the world is not the way to go.

1-Everything worked? Where? On a mirror dimension? I started trying to play since 15:00 London hour and I couldnt join until 22:30, so how can you say everything worked xD.

2- Here is the right place to type EVERYTHING.
Of course we blame devs, They are the guilty ones of not hearing us when we Talk about how bad servers are, when we give them feedback and they close threads because Hitreg/Lag/Backtrack/Logging issues only happens in our twisted minds, for them is ok.

3- They should continue ignoring Community feedback if they want another shtstorm like yesterdeay on Twitter and forums. They should continue thinking that this garbage servers are fine for keep developing new content, They should continue thinking that new players retention is low because their fault, because their Game doesnt deserve less than a 5 on metacritic.

4- Listen community, Change this servers, Less emporium more QOL maintenance to servers. I am not going to spend a single euro of my salary on this Game if they are using that money for develop more skins instead of solving all servers problems. They also shouldnt Hype people if they know that they can't afford the amount of players.

5- Yeah, giving a break, because developing skins for the emporium is a huge stress. If they were fixing the real problems, I would be agree with you, but they are doing nothing to fix that problems, just creating more.

Imagine, you work as waiter and you never clean the coffee machine, customers tells you that the machine needs some maintenance and improvements but you never clean It, never hear their advices, never do nothing to keep that machine working fine. One day, you have a ton of clients and your machine, at second coffee, stops working and your customers angry starts blaming you, asking for an apologize, giving negative feedback if your restaurant.
Is customers fault for demanding what they paid for? Or is your fault for not following the right maintenance to your coffee machine? It is yours, because a lot of customers before that day told you that you should Stop wasting money on beautiful spoons and start investing on the machine.

Rare is the waiter ignoring us and we are the angry customers. Do not try to defend them when all of this is cause they never hear community.

@burnbacon said in Sea Of Thieves Community Day - Post discussion:

What went well?

• Everything worked

What didn't go well?

• community throwing a fit over server crashing or unable to login. Blaming the dev and such.

When did they add gaslighting to the game? 🥁🤣

Well I was looking forwards to sailing with my crew but none of us could get on so yeah it was a rather disappointing community day for us, we are in different time zones and all have rather busy work schedules so planning is already not the most easy.

I just hopped onto my Towers Unite game and played some golf I mean it is what it is, what can ya do? I saw some people say they tried like six hours to get on??? I do not have the patience or time for that plus at that point half my crew would have been in bed due to it being much later so I just went on with my day.