What bothers me a bit is that this game and many other game get's a lable. It's always a PvP game or a PvE game or a combination of both...
That this game is a Heaven for people with lots of imagination skills is more and more pushed away in a shadow...
There are many Pirates that just become a Pirate when playing this game , they start talking like one , and act like a Pirate...If you like it or not , This game is called Sea Of Thieves. It means you can steal and you can be stolen upon. You can be killed , because Pirates had weapons . You can be dissapointed because this game has it's trolls, like every other Multiplayer game...You can blame the Developer for this but...isn't it a fact that everybody that buys or hires this game is allowed to play it untill becoming banned?...
i've met a lot of trolls , mostly they come in packs since they are very verbal in a group but solo trolls are pretty seldom...
i can promise you that i'm one of the worst Pirates ever when it comes to sailing , killing and stealing skills but what i do , still do after two years which included the Alpha Testing period, is having and making fun...In my own way , i have no story to tell , not one that i premeditated , i play with what comes in mind on the spot ...It's called Improvisation , a maybe old word and not sounding as cool as PvP, Pve , Private Servers , Crossplay , Opt out and many other names ...But Improvisation has brought a lot of smiles as well to me , the crew i'm in and even the " enemy"...
i play this game to have fun nomatter what label is placed on this game because no lable can cover the Intense , almost Magical Feelings a person can have by interacting in many , many ways with others...
People seem to believe that this game is only about killing Pirates , hunting or chasing them , and steal from people...And that's all...But my Dear Brothers and Sisters of the Coast , there is so much more in this game...
i like to look at the shipsails , hullpaint , flags and so on and on just to see if there are New Pirates around...A New Pirate reacts often as a scared rabbit , shoots holes in the ozon layer while his triggerfinger is ruled by nervousness...Those Pirates , our crew like to have a chat with , just to see where they need help and you would be amazed , and i'm sometimes sad to hear that many off them see this game purely as a PvP , PvE or a combination of both...
i'm telling you , it's much and much more , and by treating them Friendly , give em an Alliance , fight together in a Fort or Skeleton Fleet and let them feel that the Sea needs All and that the "experienced " gamer ( * Yo, moron ...Did you just called yerself experienced ? If age comes to surface then you definetely are experienced old seal but that's all , for the rest you're the dumbest soul ever born...fool - Oh Sunshine , aren't you glad , he could fix his PC so you could slander him again? * You think he fixed it ? You're even dumber than our Moron, i wispered in his earswhat he needed to do or he had no PC for a year ...) is glad with New Blood to the Sea...
Now many will think they have easy preys when meeting the New Pirate and taunt , troll, steal , and hunt them down till there's no tomorrow ...But ask yerself one question: Will you , as a new player ,come back to a game where you are called dirt , shaken down till yer last possession and be hunted around the server untill you finally give up? Will you come back? ...
You can do two things ,kill everything and everyone at sight , without remorse , and you will be playing on day this , and other Mutliplayer Games on yer own or you can show a Heart , guide the New Player in a New World wich he /she / them loves and where you share tips and tricks so they are a better match to fight with than just killing " newbies " with the fingers in the nose...
So see this game more than just PvP or PvE and drop that fight about who's the better Pirate ,PC or Xbox...This game is about having ,and creating fun towards others...Give up spawncamping , or hunting the same solo or new players from the server so he /she /them start to hate this game...
We , All, have the possibility in our hands and Heart to create sessions in wich you can do anything from fighting , stealing ,sailing , and even helping eachother out with the use of a slight inch of imagination ...
And i can tell you ,by experience , that helping , or fighting without using hateful comments can be as fun to me ,my crew and the " enemy"...
Oh, i'm pretty ( * only in yer dreams , drooler) certain that i can't change a mentality by this and other texts but i do try to have and share some fun in that 24 Pirates server...If you like it or not...Because Fun is another Lable that doesn't get used much anymore to categorize a game...