Pirate Emporium ruined Sea of Thieves

I'm with you there, £5 to add and remove "the" from the name of my ship is a rip off, someone will say "oh but you can dismantle the ship and make a new one, for another quarter mil and you lose all the progress.

Don’t like the store. Don’t go shopping there.
Move on. Let it go.

@burnbacon That's called complacency. There's literally no point in the game as a whole if the literal mounds of gold and thousands of hours spent on it mean absolutely nothing compared pulling out a credit card. Hunter's Call was an entire content update. You have to fish up hundreds of thousands of fish to even come close to 100% completing it and some people who have played the game since it's launch still haven't even seen a Shrouded Ghost in their own game. You can't tell me with a straight face it is even remotely fair that you only get a single HEAVILY outdated shipset from it and a handful of titles while the microtransaction whales get costumes, shipsets, weapons, emotes, pets, and more having never even touched the content to begin with. Microtransactions in any form are inherently predatory especially in games like this where the ONLY progression besides a meaningless number ticking up is making your pirate and their belongings look good.

Sorry but you can’t expect a game that cost like 30$ on steam special to give you free content 4 times a year and survive without any other sources of revenue. The emporium and the plunder pass are part of that. I hate pretty much every ship set that ever released with the paid version of the plunder pass but i always take it anyway just to keep the game going. I will start disagreeing with the emporium if they start selling stuff that gives you a big advantage over others in a fight. The emporium is not ruining SoT, it helps keeping it alive.

@lafrules I very much can expect that because A: it quite literally has run off of that before as did all games before the introduction of microtransactions and B: its a Microsoft owned game. This isn't something like Bloodborne where it's exclusive but Sony doesn't own it or some small indie developer, Microsoft quite literally owns this game and this company. Y'know, the same Microsoft that is in second place for being the richest megacorporation on the planet. Rare isn't hurting by any means and never was. This is just corporate greed.

@timedsatyr79799 said in Pirate Emporium ruined Sea of Thieves:

Also, saving loadouts to ships and buying captained ships ARE INSANE AS HELL.
WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD PAY 500K GOLD FOR THE GALLEON?!?!
AND 7K GOLD TO SAVE THE LOADOUTS IS MADDENING
WHAT'S NEXT, WASTE OUR GOLD TOO MUCH AND BUY SOME OFF THE EMPORIUM?
HELL NO!!

Hard disagree on that. I would personally have put the gally in the millions. Make it feel like it is something special that not any noob can get in a day or two. But i respect their choice. Im fine with the 7k save loadout as well. It is pocket change for many pirates anyway and it is not like we have to pay it every session. It is a one time deal.

@ishotyournuts seeing the fact that I have to redo everything I already did from 2018-2021 to unlock certain things turned me off to this game. It's a huge gut punch to us that did the grind for commodations. I'm not doing again. I loved this game and now I can't stand it.

@timedsatyr79799 no

@timedsatyr79799 said in Pirate Emporium ruined Sea of Thieves:

@lafrules
If the ship sinks will all your progress be gone ow will you have to pay again?

no your ship is a one time purchase. you keep your progress when you sink. you can even progress by sinking. you only lose progress if you dismantle the ship. I can see now how you would think 500k is expensive if you thought you had to pay that every time you sink.

@stellarbus46862 the PE hasn’t ruined SoT. It’s not been super fun that the PE gets more high quality cosmetics then the main game does but there’s a lot more than just cosmetics that make the game great.

But sure, if you don’t have anything to contribute to the conversation just insult people I guess.

@timedsatyr79799 all the new captaincy features for for captained boats only. And there’s only the one “Adventure” mode.

@wolfmanbush Sea of Thieves is a one of a kind nothing else like it game so they already have the fact that other than Ubisoft they have literally no competitors. They most certainly can keep the lights on with the game sales alone. Even then, most people aren't even saying remove the Pirate Emporium itself. This is only a problem because 90% of the emporium content can and should be rewards for the endless amount of grinding the game already demands you to do with no reward. The "massive" updates mean nothing if there's no point in doing them.

@pixlisreal Skull and Bones isn’t even a competitor. Rare’s got this market on lock.

@burnbacon It’s not that simple. The real problem of the matter is that every single great looking cosmetic goes into the emporium. A perfect example is that rare put all the great looking ship name plates in the emporium and the ones you can earn are not even close to as well made. If the best cosmetics are able to just be purchased, what’s the point of grinding for anything else?

@jaxycafe I would disagree there though. What we’ve seen so far of the Emissary sets is amazing quality and what I’d argue to be some of the best looking sets. My favorite cosmetics in this game aren’t EP, although there are some fire ship sets in there and I may even pick up the newest one because it’s something I could see myself using.

The imbalance between PE and nonPE coametic additions is the only thing that frustrates me, really.

The Emporium gets a new costume and shipset each month without fail, usually along with matching weaponry; while all we can hope to get is a year's old recolor added to the shop (which we did not even get with Season Seven... sigh).
The only means by which we get interesting cosmetics is via drops or season passes, other than those, it's an endless torrent of goofy costumes.

I would say the emporium has definitely hurt the cosmetic situation, though it hasn't ruined the game

@schwammlgott Read literally any of my replies in this thread and if that still doesn't convince you as to why that phenomenally wrong then I don't know what else to tell you.