So... How are we feeling after that direct?

I don't know man, direct was pretty bleak. if there's really nothing else for season 20, the game might be entering maintenance mode.

But they may announce something on the Xbox game showcase on the 7th of next month. I remember back when they started the 3 act structure they claimed the big updates would happen outside of the seasonal structure... maybe they are gonna drop something big then instead?

they would get a bigger audience on the Xbox game showcase than the direct... so maybe?

only time will tell.

Gold for Content Creators, Tdmers, Screenshots artists.
ABSOLUTE NOTHING for all the rest of the playerbase.
And now we have to wait even more time for the GMU to appear (hoping that they didn't scrapped even that).

@spectergames706 I'm sort of tempering expectations on the XGS announcement. The last few have been admittedly either low energy (smugglers) or something we already knew about (Burning Blade).

I don't think there's a completely 0% chance of something brand new that we haven't seen being shown, but I also feel it's a very, VERY low chance. I sincerely doubt we will ever get anything on the level of hype that A Pirate's Life gave, though. But I hope I'm wrong.

We're also getting another direct sometime this summer (not sure if it coincides with XGS or is after). So time will tell, I guess.

@blazebeard2313 Yeah, I'm kind of in the same boat with how I feel on that. If nothing else, we can be happy that a good chunk of the people wanting TDM/fights will probably make their own servers, and be playing within them and it'll hopefully make High Seas/Hourglass more lively.

@valor-omega Honestly, not hopeful at all, this was the perfect opportunity to give us... something! But no teasers or announcements about anything outside of customs seas were really depressing. We have no plan on how they're going to stop making the same mistakes, just promises of doing better and self-congratulation on not releasing completely broken updates.

I'd say the Xbox Showcase is the last chance they have to excite the playerbase. If that fails, not many people are gonna bother playing season 20.

CS will release and within week or month, something that wasnt added or "want" will be demanded.
Or people will see they cant 'actually play and unlock' stuff in CS...and demand that changed :P

@kianonboard players practised in the real game for 8 years. And before there wasn't even safer seas. This stuff is just another bootlick for content creators and something that could be implemented with minimal effort. Personally, I'll play sot only on those damn weekender for the doubloons and 5 days on Custom Seas launch to grind the pass, and that's it. I hope we get something relevant for the lore, like the GMU in S21, otherwise I'll just drop the game. They are transforming a unique game in a mainstream game (same creative mode as minecraft, same pass structure as fortnite). Zero Originality.

I’m not disappointed in the sense that I wasn’t expecting any major announcements about the game’s future.
However, one question that arises is how they’ll fund it.
Now that we know CS will be free, the Emporium will have less content, and the Plunder Pass is changing, how are they going to fund it?
In my opinion, either they’re preparing a big announcement for the Xbox Showcase in June—a collaboration that’s sure to attract a lot of players (which is the most likely scenario)— and the most natural collaboration will be a continuation of the one we started with Disney on A Pirate Life - or the prices of cosmetics will go up.

As for the rest, I’m waiting until June; I won’t judge Season 20 until then.