I think it’s a shame that Rare seems to only focus on money and we make decisions like that accordingly. At the beginning everyone was a new player and was therefore not good at the game, some played a lot and got good at it. The fact that the skill gap is a big problem for many experienced players is nothing new. I just think the fact that someone with 100 hours can keep up with someone who has several 1000 hours without any problems is unfair. If you play a lot, I should be rewarded accordingly.
New players have been crying foul for years. „oh no I just get killed and can’t do anything except play against good players“ Yes, it doesn’t seem to matter that these players were annoyed at the beginning – they want to play new games and be successful right away without making any effort. Isn’t that unfair for the people who really put time and effort into the game to get good? Isn’t it unfair that someone who is playing the game for the first time has the same chances as someone who has been playing for years? I think it just takes the incentive out of actually playing the game. And on the subject of private servers.
For years, mostly beginners have wanted private players or people who are simply not that good at pvp. Yes, ok, but the other people did it too. Some people just have more talent for these types of games and others don’t. But that shouldn’t be the guideline. From a business perspective, it is of course more lucrative to attract new players than to satisfy existing players. The new player pays for the game, so people who have already paid are no longer of great importance to the company’s profits. But now taking the step to make it even easier for new players to get into the game is simply pathetic. From the perspective of someone who has played the game’s beta since 2017, it’s simply unbelievable. Sea of Thieves 2018 and Sea of Thieves 2023 are simply completely different games. Back in 2018 you just had the feeling that the players were even more important to Rare than they are today. Just a small example: I played the game for the first time on March 20, 2018 And after about 200 hours of play, I achieved the title of pirate leader on July 11th, 2018. Today? If you start the game today, you can be a pirate legend tomorrow in under 30 hours. To the arena The arena just shows again that the developers don’t care one bit about their long-term players. Before the arena was finally removed from the game, it would have been changed twice. Once.The change that the matches no longer take 24 minutes but only 15 minutes means that the title of Legendary Sea Dogs originally lasts at least 96 hours of pure playing time with, according to experience, a waiting time of 10 minutes after at least 136 hours could be achieved provided that every match was won. I had an 85% chance of winning during my active time So again when the Arena came out in 2019 you could unlock the title as Legendary Sea dog after 136 hours. Now to the arena after the concept was changed. The new arena has a match duration of 15 minutes, which means after only 60 hours with experience showing a 5m waiting time per match, so in the end after 80 hours you could already get the title. I and a colleague achieved the title after just 10 days, 10 hours of playing time per day.
What. There is simply ridiculously little time in the area to the original version of the arena.

The second change is that the voice chat and text has been removed from the arena. According to rare, the reason was that 80% of the reports came from the arena and therefore only 20% of the reported players came from the adventure mode.
And what do you do when 8,000 of 10,000 reports come from the arena?
Correctly, you remove the only feature to communicate with each other in the arena so that no one can be insulted and you only have 2000 complaints.
Is this the right solution, which of course affects the gameplay of those who have previously experienced games? Well, if you don’t care what happens to the experienced players and are only interested in attracting as many new players as possible, then yes.
From the perspective of someone who has played the game for over 10,000 hours, it is simply a slap in the face to rare.

Ridiculously disproportionate compensation.

So now to a topic that really shows that the servers from rare Un whose handling of this problem is really a circus. In December 2020, it was like a gold and glory weekend and I had something special planned for my 3 colleagues. We planned to do several golden Athena quests to get enough Athena crates to write the numbers „2021“ out of Athena crates Since you only get one golden Athena quest per account, you have to have several pirate legend accounts. In order to get appropriate chests. Each account gets a quest in which you get 3.ahena boxes In the end we had 44 chests which means we needed 14 golden Athena quests. Each of my colleagues had an account so we had four quests, one colleague still had a Pirate Legend account so 5 other colleagues had 3 accounts so we have 8 accounts and 24 Athena chests. I had 6 accounts where. We’ll get to the 14th quest. Each account gets a quest so I upgraded an account 5 times with my main account, which has been a pirate legend since 2018 So 20 hours per account means around 100 hours just for preparing the quest. So finally the time had come, we met on a Saturday at 9 a.m. and started the quest. After almost 13 hours we were finished, we drove to the shares of gold to Tribute Peak and laid out all the boxes so that a nice 2021 could be read to celebrate the new year. After 4 pm we were ready to sell at the outpost Since it was almost 11 p.m. we wanted to sell quickly and go to sleep. When we started getting lost we noticed that we weren’t getting any gold at all? We thought that the servers were unstable at the moment and that we would get the gold later. That wasn’t the case after a few days we didn’t get 1 gold from him. What we had sold and Rare told us that “due to server problems some data was not saved and as compensation 10000 gold and 50 doubloons each”. You will be credited in one go. Had registered for a certain period of time. Just to give you an overview, we had 14 Athena quests on board.

Now a little calculation We had

42 Athena chests (6000)
168 Captain’s Chests (900)
112 skulls (1200)

The numbers given above are the in-game currency gold, the number representing approximately how much gold there is in one item.

So we had Athena chests 252000
Captain’s Chests 151200
Skulls 134400

Added together on board makes 537,600 gold.
Because it was the Gold and Glory weekend we got 200% more gold and because we bought all the Athena boxes with the emissary 5 flag another 250% more comes to 450% more and we also sold the other items for an extra 450%

So let’s get on

2419200 that we just didn’t get.
Apart from the over 100 hours of preparation time.
I won’t even start with the topic of Hitreg.


You’re really just a profit-oriented company full of developers who have no idea what they’re actually doing.

LG Cpt Simon 53