Anyone else excited for the Arena and want it now?

No. After a while arena hardened crews with high pvp skills will dominate the normal area of sea of thieves. Bad decission to create the arena, afaik. I will play Sot as long as it is fun. When the arenas overtake the sea, I will quit.

That's a bad decision imo, they should have focused on open pvp in adventure mode with bounty hunting, which is the way to go in an open pvp game.

Arena mode will not prevent open pvp players to play in adventure mode, and there will still not be any counter to alliances wrecking anything on their bloody war path.

Also now that a pvp focused mode is announced, pve players will just keep requesting for a pve mode.

@JE0RGIE-P0RGIE There are other pvp games to play when you don't have much time, in addition arena may not leave many regular open pvp players on adventure mode (frustrating open pvp players like me) and pve players will suffer pvp players even less.

This is already the case with the alliance system, I've been severly insulted lately for having refused an alliance, indeed sinking and killing those poor lads in the process.

I see it coming as big as a truck : "you got a pvp mode, leave us be !" insults/reports/whinings/forum war.

Great.

@boomtownboss a dit dans Anyone else excited for the Arena and want it now? :

@meurtrisseur recommending other games to play is a good way to make a dead game. SoT is my favorite game, and currently the only game I'm interested in. I welcome a way to play it in shorter bursts.
People already complain about losing. They're called sore losers. They will always complain. I say let them.

I play other games than SOT, especially when I want to play arena games, but I like SOT because this is the best open pvp pirate game I know of, featuring ship battles and foot battles.

Pull the open pvp feature out or break it and I will no more be interested but maybe this is what devs want : pve focused adventure mode and a pvp focused arena mode. This is a very bad design decision for open pvp nonetheless.

@JE0RGIE-P0RGIE There are other ways to capitalize on pvp lovers than to divide the community in various modes. I'm not sure this game is populated enough to allow itself such a thing without it being risky.

I reckon the Arena mode will gain similar popularity than Arena mode in Elite: Dangerous. It's just that "PVP players" (not the actual pvp players that look for challenge and want to fight the best of the best) are looking for seal clubbing opportunities and to ruin someones day for lols than actual fights. In Arena, everyone is going for blood already. it's not what they seek.
But let's hope for the best. Maybe it will be a opportunity for a proper PvP part community shine.

@polemisch said in Anyone else excited for the Arena and want it now?:

@meurtrisseur Pve players should play garbage atlas.

You're such a nice fellow :)

@katttruewalker said in Anyone else excited for the Arena and want it now?:

Sea of Thieves is a Shared World Adventure Game where players can experience both pvp and pve elements and make a range of choices around how they'd like to play and the content added caters for both playstyles as well as those who enjoy a little of both.

Choises and Catering for both playstyles are completely gone when someone who wants PvP decides to force their style on you :P

@katttruewalker So there's basically just the one playstyle available. Be in the open sea, hope for the best and fear for the worst. Or be the worst fear of others..
Not many options available yet, but opening up the arena is going to be one of them. And maybe more will follow.

@katttruewalker And like the saving grace of a mermaid, KattTruewalker comes in and takes a post going south like a flock of geese and turns it into another incredible, magical, save.
My long feathered hat is off and I bow to the for your excellence.

i cant wait for arena nor my crew, it will be all we ever play I just hope it comes out sooner then later!!