This is an accessibility issue

@reliablewren
You can mute other crews and I suggest you turn in more often: don't sail around with more loot than you care to lose.

Haha PvE servers are an accessibility issue! I love it. "the current state of the game" Also known as the game.

@reliablewren Just play a game that fits your abilities instead of going to a game and demanding it fundamentally change. Play deep rock galactic.

@reliablewren The game has rewards, all the shiny cosmetics, and risk, yarr there be pirates. By even giving an option to have one without the other you destroy any tension in the game. Most new pirates after getting dumpstered and losing their epic 2 sea fort haul would opt in to the hugfest and the game would just turn into a pve game. What you are asking for fundamentally changes the game. That's why all these pve server threads are locked. The matter is settled in Rare's opinion.

@reliablewren Yea whoever told you to post here is ignorant. Any talk of pve servers or any iteration thereof is usually instalocked. I'm a bit of a connoisseur of this forum and don't know why this hasn't been locked with a copy paste response from a mod. Perhaps because you have invoked a disability they don't want to seem insensitive and need to talk to our lord and savior Joseph Neatus first.

As for it fundamentally changing the game it certainly would. Most pvp players would rather play in a pvpve game. you would change the game from being a pvpve game to being two games a pvp one and a pve one. Imagine if tarkov had a pve mode where you got loot in it.

@reliablewren i mean its not a pvp players right to bully its a pvp or pvpve players right to play the pvpve game.

Yea if you dont like pvp games dont play games that are pvp. That or join the dark side that is alliance servers.

Sounds like this isn't the game for you. Everything you've said so far points in that direction. Honestly I don't think it's fair of you to use your disability to try and force change in a game that was designed with unwanted interactions in mind. Perhaps you should take a step back and ask yourself is this really the game I want to play?

Disable chat and other crew audio

There, saved you the trouble you have with being mocked by words.

As for taunting by emotes, really? That has become a new trigger? Someone using the laugh emote?
You could just send yourself quicker to the ferry that way they can’t be seen.

As many have said. No pve servers. It won’t be done

PvE Server would ruin the fun of this game for most people on the seas. This won't happen.
But as almost everyone said: Mute all other crews and get quickly to the Ferry of the Damned (Or even just switch server) when being attacked.
Also as a tip: Have someone look out for other ships on the horizon. If you see a ship sail the opposite way. Look on the map when joining the game if you see any reapers.
Also, look around all the tables on each company to see if any small boats are placed on there - Most of the ships sailing for a company are very aggressive (especially reapers these days)

I'm very sorry that you have such bad luck. If I see other players I always try to be nice. Would love to see other players be nice too for once.

@reliablewren I fail to see how this is an accessibility issue. It seems your style of game and Sea of Thieves are just different. While it's unfortunate, all games are not for all people.

If you play on xbox, make sure and turn on console/controller preferred. A lot less of the aggressive types. Not 100%, ymmv, but I very rarely get bothered by other players.

Would also recommend checking into alliance servers a little less tounge in cheek than others.

This is NOT an accessibility issue. Accessibility issues are things that prevent people from being on an equal footing in the game due to disability.

You currently have full access to everything in the game. Nothing prevents you from being able to access game content. Instead what you have is a personal issue with part of the game. You don't "like" being sunk, you don't "like" PvP interactions with other players. That has nothing to do with accessibility.

Think of it this way: if a soldier has PTSD from time spent in war, they might find they cannot play games such as Call of Duty because it triggers their PTSD. Is that an accessibility issue? Does it fall on the game developer to make their war simulation game "accessible" to people who have an adverse reaction to the CONTENT? No. Same situation here. You don't have an inability to access content based on your disability. You have an adverse reaction to game content.

So play a different game. I don't play "Giant Spider Simulator" games because I can't handle spiders. I don't demand that games like Skyrim remove spiders so I can play it.

@reliablewren said in This is an accessibility issue:

@lackbarwastaken
I fail to understand the issue. Are you saying that if there was a PvE mode, people would only play that? That sounds like people would be very happy with the change. My experience is that plenty of people would still go for PvP, since it seems many people enjoy that. Then people could do what they each wanted. People who want to PvP can fight each other, and people who don't want that- or fundamentally struggle with it- can be left to their PvE.

I'm frustrated that if this matter is just going to get locked, as people keep saying, that I was told to post here when I tried to bring it up as a support ticket.

I'm sorry that this has been your experience, but you being right or wrong here really is immaterial. The decision has been made. There's no point debating whether PvE only mode would make the game better or worse, it doesn't matter if it would or wouldn't, the decision has been made to not implement it irrespective. Being asked to take it here on a support ticket is, frankly, bizarre. I'm sorry to say it, but you should at this point look after yourself and not play this game, I would suggest reporting the support ticket and requesting a refund, I think you have legitimate reason to ask for your money back.

@lordqulex said in This is an accessibility issue:
It happens, it sucks, we get frustrated and I don't want to share the number of controllers/headsets I've had to replace because I've thrown them against the wall, but most of the time it's good.

To be fair, getting angry and frustrated and having a panic attack or worse aren't really the same thing.

@maximusarael020 said in This is an accessibility issue:

Think of it this way: if a soldier has PTSD from time spent in war, they might find they cannot play games such as Call of Duty because it triggers their PTSD. Is that an accessibility issue? Does it fall on the game developer to make their war simulation game "accessible" to people who have an adverse reaction to the CONTENT? No. Same situation here. You don't have an inability to access content based on your disability. You have an adverse reaction to game content.

So play a different game. I don't play "Giant Spider Simulator" games because I can't handle spiders. I don't demand that games like Skyrim remove spiders so I can play it.

To be fair though, Call of Duty is very clear that you will experience warfare when playing it. Sea of Thieves isn't 100% clear that you will experience unavoidable PvP to the same degree. I don't think the game should change, but I do think that it should be made far, far more clear in the game's advertising and steam page, and if not there should be a standing option for full refund on that basis irrespective of time from purchase or other normal invalidating issues.