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Some players make a point to hunt down others; and treasure chests, skulls, and merchant crates can all be stolen by rival pirates and sold in your stead. Sea of Thieves’s greatest success isn’t in being a pirate game, then, but its capacity to be a sandbox that encourages its players to act like cartoon swashbucklers who keep pushing their luck to the limits. You might be drinking a friendly grog with another crew at port in one moment, and then daringly firing yourself out a cannon at their ship in the next, so that you can have a duel and steal their cargo. Maybe the other lot are giving chase while you jump overboard, climb up their hull on the other side, and drop their anchor to secure your crew’s getaway.

The stories of loot lost and ranks not gained, or, on the other hand, narrow escapes and knife's-edge victories, only have weight because there are hard-to-obtain rewards that matter to players, and every bit of booty counts. Voyages are a structured form of play, but you don't really need to be tied to them.

Players could also purchase a separate Sea of Thieves-themed Xbox wireless controller, and anyone who purchased the Xbox One X console from 18 to 24 March would receive a free digital copy of the game. Microsoft's Australian branch partnered with music band Captain Hellfire & The Wretched Brethren for a two-day event in which the pirate band sang different sea shanties requested by players. The program was broadcast via Facebook, Mixer, and Twitch from 24 to 25 March 2018.

The team hoped to a large content update every 6 weeks to 2 months, and used "Bilge Rat Adventures", which are time-limited challenges to fill the gap between each expansion. The ultimate goal was to make the game "as big and successful as it can be".

Sea of Thieves is a first-person perspective action-adventure. At the beginning of the game, the player selects their procedurally generated player avatar. The game is set in a shared world, which means groups of players will encounter each other throughout their adventures. Occasionally players may encounter hostile players who may attack them with cannonballs or board their ship.

Engage in intense ship-to-ship battles against other players or fearsome ships of the undead. Or test your crew against other pirates in The Arena, Sea of Thieves’ standalone competitive game mode.

Whereas other games rely on the action of gameplay to keep players engaged, Sea of Thieves hinges on its community. Each sea is unique—no experience has ever been entirely similar, depending on what thieves have spawned with me, or what treasure has popped up where. Sometimes, the metagame co-op of a particular server is frustrating, overwhelming, and demoralizing. I stopped my horse for every stranger in Red Dead Redemption 2. I felt bad when I accidentally chose a rude response in The Walking Dead.

It’s a massive shark much larger than the ships you sail on in the game. These creatures are difficult to take down, but you can overcome them. While some players have noted to defeating them on a single ship, by themselves, most of the time, you will want to fight them with a full crew.