Heartbreaking Player Count

[Moon Man]

I love this game, been playing from almost the beginning but took a break recently. just came back and looked at the player count and it seems to be an all time low. my question is what happened? was there an update that people really didnt like? did another pirate game come out and steal players?

[Misha Gigant]

Most likely that Rare adds cool new stuff, but it does not retain attention of a regular casual player, there is not that much to do besides the achievements. I have 600h, love the game, still play it, but I can't overlook this major point

But while I play, I don't even recognise that the player count is low. I still find a ton of new players, average and some sweats, so feels pretty well rounded over all

[Bloodartist]

Originally posted by megobibi:

I love this game, been playing from almost the beginning but took a break recently. just came back and looked at the player count and it seems to be an all time low. my question is what happened? was there an update that people really didnt like? did another pirate game come out and steal players?

In my opinion: the reason is the same it has always been, but Rare has never really tried to solve it. They avoid the problem.

- What the game needs more than anything is a way to form a crew INGAME without the need to resort to out-of-game and third party means. If I meet someone ingame, I want to invite them to my crew without having to go through XBL friends list silliness and restart the whole game to get a new ship.
- That Im expected to interact with discord server (a third party app), and then with microsofts flimsy friends list is ludicrous. Too much bother for someone you might not even like. Whats worse is that the discord server is full of people who expect you to have 1000 play hours or some silliness like that.
- The open crew is garbage. What happens is that someone in open crew always leaves early (or is voted out) and the game spends 0 effort trying to invite someone new. The game doesn't try to fill empty slots. In other words, open crew doesn't work either.
- Playing solo is boring, even pvp.

The games biggest draw is adventuring with your friends, but the game makes no effort trying to help people find new friends. Oh and lets not forget the games terrible ingame voice functionality, something you need to spend a lot of effort to get working, thanks to microsoft.

Soloplay has gotten even less interesting with the introduction of safer seas, cause now people don't have noob sailers on the seas to oppress. Hardcore pvpers do hourglass pvp, noobs do safe seas. The ACTUAL seas are empty.

[storm179TTV]

dont forget there's MS, Xbox and PS5 players that arent added in the steam playerbase stats. theres probably way more PS5 players than steam players. i'll admit, the playerbase has dropped, but thats the gaming industry

[[K]entucky Sperkle ♿]

just from a technical point of view theres alot of bugs/glitches, hackers, server lag that could contribute to lack of players.

for veteran/existing players theres not really new content being added and whatever is added really only lasts a week or 2

[Fail]

Originally posted by megobibi:

I love this game, been playing from almost the beginning but took a break recently. just came back and looked at the player count and it seems to be an all time low. my question is what happened? was there an update that people really didnt like? did another pirate game come out and steal players?

Bla bLa BLa PlaYeR bAsE drOpPinG oH No!

Not everyone uses Steam. When will you people realise this?

[Moon Man]

Originally posted by Fail:

Originally posted by megobibi:

I love this game, been playing from almost the beginning but took a break recently. just came back and looked at the player count and it seems to be an all time low. my question is what happened? was there an update that people really didnt like? did another pirate game come out and steal players?

Bla bLa BLa PlaYeR bAsE drOpPinG oH No!

Not everyone uses Steam. When will you people realise this?

im aware sea of thieves is multi platform. im referring to the drop of around 30k playing to 4k on steam playercount. theres really no reason to be hostile.

[Berry]

Originally posted by megobibi:

Originally posted by Fail:

Bla bLa BLa PlaYeR bAsE drOpPinG oH No!

Not everyone uses Steam. When will you people realise this?

im aware sea of thieves is multi platform. im referring to the drop of around 30k playing to 4k on steam playercount. theres really no reason to be hostile.

This guy just wants to vent o everyone that says facts. If steam players are decreasing there is a 99% chance other platform are decreasing too. this doesnt mean that there are no players. let him mald

[roxy]

I am playing it right now.

The game is bland. Boring. Ultimately you find yourself repeating same things over and over. Toxicity, boring NPC fights, and kids that gang up on you and continously spawn kill you, not letting your ship sink.

[Bloodartist]

Originally posted by br0KESY:

I am playing it right now.

The game is bland. Boring. Ultimately you find yourself repeating same things over and over. Toxicity, boring NPC fights, and kids that gang up on you and continously spawn kill you, not letting your ship sink.

Yes. I also feel that PVP is at the heart of Sea of Thieves, and it should always be so.
Recent changes, the introduction of safer seas has diminished pvp.

[Matt]

Originally posted by megobibi:

my question is what happened?

Nothing happened. Literally.

They've removed more content than they have added in the last two years.

[Nexus]

Originally posted by megobibi:

I love this game, been playing from almost the beginning but took a break recently. just came back and looked at the player count and it seems to be an all time low. my question is what happened? was there an update that people really didnt like? did another pirate game come out and steal players?

I played this game for years, but my discord gaming group grew to 6 regulars and I can't play it will all of them, so we migrated to games that support 6 - 8 or more, like conan exiles, soul mask, enshrouded. I still maintain this was the most fun I've had in a Pirate themed game, we just outgrew its limitations.

[Buzzarag]

Simple: Toxic community keeps new players away by being toxic to them. The decent veterans did what they wanted to and got everything they wanted and quit playing. This causes the situation where almost all that remains is the toxic bottom dirt of players (with good and nice players being super rare) who keep bullying new players away.
More and more old players have enough of the game, new players are being kept from enjoying the game, the community dies and the point of no return has been passed.

[storm179TTV]

Originally posted by Buzzarag:

Simple: Toxic community keeps new players away by being toxic to them. The decent veterans did what they wanted to and got everything they wanted and quit playing. This causes the situation where almost all that remains is the toxic bottom dirt of players (with good and nice players being super rare) who keep bullying new players away.
More and more old players have enough of the game, new players are being kept from enjoying the game, the community dies and the point of no return has been passed.

what you mean by 'toxic'

[Fail]

Originally posted by storm179TTV:

what you mean by 'toxic'

HE SANK MY SHIP AND STOLE MY SEAFARERS!!!! D:<

[Moon Man]

Originally posted by storm179TTV:

Originally posted by Buzzarag:

Simple: Toxic community keeps new players away by being toxic to them. The decent veterans did what they wanted to and got everything they wanted and quit playing. This causes the situation where almost all that remains is the toxic bottom dirt of players (with good and nice players being super rare) who keep bullying new players away.
More and more old players have enough of the game, new players are being kept from enjoying the game, the community dies and the point of no return has been passed.

what you mean by 'toxic'

for me, an example of toxic would be fishing and getting killed over and over for no loot