Sea of Thieves starts off with more than two million players

Microsoft’s highly anticipated and highly praised pirating with your friends simulator Sea of Thieves has now broke a huge record and has more than two million players. The games was released recently and it immediately received many positive reviews. It was a blast and its unique visuals with a unique gameplay made it an important title of the recent years. However, it also had a a couple of performance issues and some complaints about content being a little ‘shallow’. However, Rare has addressed to these issues in a patch and now, the game runs smoother.

Furthermore, Microsoft has announced that the game bas more successful than they had expected:

“The worldwide excitement for Sea of Thieves has made it the fastest-selling first-party new IP of this generation. Having witnessed more than a million players on launch day, our community continues to grow and now has more than two million players. Alongside this, Sea of Thieves is already the best-selling Microsoft Studios first-party title on Windows 10.”

“In addition to its social gameplay that brings people together to create memories and make new friends, one of the things that makes Sea of Thieves so special is how much fun it is to stream and watch others. More than 100,000 players have streamed Sea of Thieves since launch, resulting in more than 10 million hours watched in the last week. Thank you to all the content creators and community who have streamed Sea of Thieves and entertained viewers with their creativity and sense of fun as it jumped into the number one slot on Twitch and Mixer several times this past week.”

It is good to see that a tasteful game like this getting the attention it deserves. Why it deserves the attention? Because in a gaming world where every single step is based on the common expectation and where most of the games are a clone of others, developing something different is pretty hard. Sea of Thieves is a good game, and it is a good milestone for the gaming industry to show that different can sometimes be really successful.

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