@khaleesibot My daughter and I play Sea Of Thieves together, and recently we'd noticed a lot more washed up items on shore (crates, vases, spices, skulls,etc) and it really added to the game. For one thing many of the islands are vast, but totally empty. Nothing to do, no reason to explore beyond digging up the X on the map and moving on. No mystery, or sense of exploration rewarded, until we started noticing washed up items and random chests
Suddenly it was fun and rewarding to actually explore. Scouring the beaches, caves, etc for hidden treasure. it became more of an adventure. It was a huge improvement
HOWEVER...
Today we log on after the newest update and soon realized that these random treasures have been apparently removed COMPLETELY. We played for over 5 hours. sailed all over, completed many contracts, and did not find a single one. Nada... nothing. Even the bottle quests seem to be removed
Normally, when playing that long we would have found many. As far as I can tell they have been removed entirely from the game. This is a huge step backward. As I said, your islands are all pretty, but ultimately empty. There is nothing to discover, nothing to do. Just big vacant landmasses. It starts feeling very shallow after awhile. While random treasures aren't exactly the fix, they were a good first step. Why in the world would you remove them???