Rare's latest game appears to be a massive success, according to Microsoft, as Sea of Thieves has become the company's fastest selling new IP of the Xbox One generation, and the #1 first party game on Windows 10. The game managed to get over one million players on the day it launched, which actually caused huge server issues for many players, but once resolved, the game shot up to two million players by the end of the week. This game marked the first instance of a Microsoft game being playable on launch through the Game Pass service, where players can rent a library of games for $10 a month. Sea of Thieves also managed to top the sales charts for the UK on the week it released, outselling games like Ni No Kuni 2 and A Way Out.

Thanks for helping make @SeaOfThieves a record setting launch! Our most successful new IP of this generation, over 2M players first week, and >500k new XBL friends made! #BeMorePirate #SeaOfThieves https://t.co/KUViiK8ZBW

— Aaron Greenberg 🙅🏼‍♂️💚U (@aarongreenberg) March 28, 2018

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[MikaDubbz]

Its a game that's fun for a while, but gets old pretty quickly with nothing of any real value to work toward. Great to see an exclusive game selling well for the Xbone, but, at the same time a shame that such an overall mediocre game is the game that is the fastest selling IP for Microsoft this gen. Still, it could become a substantially better game if they issue the right kind of content updates, I'm sure it will get better in time, but I question if it will ever reach the missed potential that I do see within the title.

 

[Lumince]

If you only refer to infinite warfare, modern warfare 3, ghosts and probably advanced warfare, then we can agree on that.

The only reason why COD is still around is because People defend the bad ones and Treyarch is still making games lol. Ive never really liked IW or sledges games lol So I think most of us can agree to what you said.

 

[pedro702]

Yeah I wouldn’t listen to some moron on YouTube to be honest. The sales figures don’t lie.

except people sometimes buy the games and then they regret, no to mention preety much all of the players come from windows, they saw a new mmo pirate game and they said, heck why not and bought it, this will be those mmos that in 2 months is basicaly dead in the water.

 

[Oleboy555]

have any of you fools actually played this game? it is great and a ton of fun with friends, you can get the game for free for 14 days by signing up for the xbox game pass trial

 

[pedro702]

have any of you fools actually played this game? it is great and a ton of fun with friends, you can get the game for free for 14 days by signing up for the xbox game pass trial

if you readed most people have and they say the game is fun for a couple of hours, until you realize there is basicaly no progression,reward for doing preety much anything that is worth it.

 

[MikaDubbz]

have any of you fools actually played this game? it is great and a ton of fun with friends, you can get the game for free for 14 days by signing up for the xbox game pass trial

Yeah, its fun for the first few hours, and then you realize there isn't much more to it. It is very reminiscent of No Man's Sky, in how it's really fun at first, but quickly gets old and boring. At least to Sea of Thieves credit, it has legit online multiplayer that does keep you invested for a bit longer than No Man's Sky, but all the same it still gets boring relatively quickly.

 

[SG854]

have any of you fools actually played this game? it is great and a ton of fun with friends, you can get the game for free for 14 days by signing up for the xbox game pass trial

Don't have an xbox. I like to see what other games are on the console to see if its worth purchasing or not.
Cuphead does have my attention. I played that game its a lot of fun. Might get an Xbox some time in the future when prices go down.

 

[HaloEliteLegend]

You we're basically sold the foundation of a game that might've been good, if the other 90% was finished.

"Most successful IP of this console generation"? Just wait till those two week Game Pass trials expire. And then maybe two more weeks for those who bought it to give up because the game literally has nothing. There's NOTHING to do! The player drop-off is gonna be immense.

 

[flamesofdoom]

Not that great of numbers when you consider that most of those players probably did not actually buy the game and played it through the xbox game pass service.

 

[AaronUzumaki]

Not that great of numbers when you consider that most of those players probably did not actually buy the game and played it through the xbox game pass service.

This is what I was going to say. We need the separate data to really determine what these numbers mean. We need full-price and game pass sales separated and on top of that, we need to know whether each game pass sale was an active subscriber, a free trial, or renewed subscriber that cancelled after a month.

 

[8BitWonder]

Yeah, from what I heard it's basically No Man's Sea. An incomplete product.

I take it you haven't seen or care for any of NMS's updates.

 

[AaronUzumaki]

I take it you haven't seen or care for any of NMS's updates.

Anyone calling it No Man's Sea is probably comparing the launch versions of each game.

 

[Lumince]

I take it you haven't seen or care for any of NMS's updates.

Sadly, NMS seems to still be unfinished from what was all promised. i refunded that game day 1. It was pretty bad and It still seems a little bad and repetitive

 

[8BitWonder]

Anyone call8ng it No Man's Sea is probably comparing the launch versions of each game.

That's fair, I didn't really consider that. Sorry @Xzi.

On another note, I've never even heard of this game until now. I take it it's just co-op piracy or something?

 

[AaronUzumaki]

That's fair, I didn't really consider that. Sorry @Xzi.

On another note, I've never even heard of this game until now. I take it it's just cool piracy or something?

It's a really cool team-reliant pirate game with really solid mechanics and a cool(ish) world. That is until you realize there's only three quests and couple of other things to discover before you've basically completed the game. All you can do after that is grind the same quests and enemies to level up your 3 faction levels, which as far as I'm aware, does nothing for you but eventually increase the objective count of the quests, but the added objectives are just the same objective.

 

[Bonestorm]

the game is awful

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Yeah I wouldn’t listen to some moron on YouTube to be honest. The sales figures don’t lie.

wtf do sales figures have to do with quality of the game? is that a joke?

Xbox gamers were starving for a exclusive game that wasn't a FPS for a long time

 

[HaloEliteLegend]

That's fair, I didn't really consider that. Sorry @Xzi.

On another note, I've never even heard of this game until now. I take it it's just co-op piracy or something?

It was basically Microsoft's big Xbox exclusive for some time and touted as Rare's big comeback. It's a multiplayer pirate game where you do basically nothing. You can sail around, grief people (no PVP safe zones), or do one of three kinds of repetitive fetch quests. You can get a treasure map and dig up an easy to find chest, you can kill skeletons, or you can find animals. Even the most bare bones MMO fetch quests seem like GOTY-worthy gameplay in comparison.

 

[linuxares]

Congratulations you pre-ordering morons! You just paid for a vague promise of content be added later!

 

[Kioku]

have any of you fools actually played this game? it is great and a ton of fun with friends, you can get the game for free for 14 days by signing up for the xbox game pass trial

Its a great wasteland of water that has minimal replayability. It gets stale rather quickly. Wasted 20 hours to find that I'm better off playing Destiny 2.

 

[Seliph]

Yeah I wouldn’t listen to some moron on YouTube to be honest. The sales figures don’t lie.

Call of Duty Ghosts had high sales figures too