@gallerine5582
Don't worry though; alcohol for fun is completely fine...
I said a new look, not necessarily a raise of it. Alcohol is included in the ESRB rating, gambling is not.
Even if we can't actually "bet" currencies, small games to do would still be nice to have, and (even though you didn't mention it I'll still say something about it) if crews can't operate at all because of a player's absence, that's their more of their own issue to sort out with the crew. I'd hope the devs would make it so you can actually get up during a game and come back to it later...
I suppose it could work without problems of the ESRB. But any use of time on card games during sessions is disrespectful to the rest of the crew and a waste of time.
Even when you're sailing to an island, there are things to do. Check that the sails are in the wind, launch off at wrecks, barrels, and islands for supplies, check the horizon for other ships, watch the seas ahead to make sure the helmsman doesn't run into anything, cook meat or fish. There's always something productive to do and card games would give crewmates a new way to be nonfunctioning.
And I don't think card games would feel right without some form of currency to gamble, but that's just my opinion.
So I say, if card games were added, it could only be in a separate social server with some currency made only for the social server.
But that's a lot of work for such a thing. It's reasonable to never expect card games to come to Sea of Thieves unless "New Social Options for Crews" is what I just described.