The most recent This Month in Sea of Thieves blog just rolled out, and June seems to be bustling with activities. With Gold & Glory weekends, Fight Nights, and the next update: enough to land any would-be pirate in the thick of it. Yet, as is usually the case, the community reaction is… well, let’s say, somewhat less than favorable.
Right into it. Gold~And Glory weekends always reward the players with double the reward for plundering. Fight Nights appear to demand some fierce PvP action, and the next update will surely bring on a whole bunch of promises. In the meantime, Rare is celebrating Pride Month with some inclusiveness references in the game, which should not have even remotely been an issue, but somehow rightly assumed the limelight.
For things got messy. Players were quick to react to the Pride mentions and started complaining about how the devs should be working on fixing the game and not politics. User @onlywupfromhere ranted that the game “shouldn’t be about your politics or sexuality,” which cascaded into a whole line of argued threads. One other user, @StrangeOPticzZ, rebutted the argument by saying “throwing up a Pride flag probably took like a minute, that ain’t why we’re struggling to stay up.”
Henceforth, the real issues of gameplay are getting buried under all of this drama. Players haven’t been able to log in to the game since March because of the famous “stramberrybeard” error, as pointed out by @Heps1226. Also, @FunkySkunkPunk after numerous attempts still couldn’t finish the “Quest for Guybrush” tall tale. Then @Kingla5882 begged for the revival of hourglass mode, saying that it has just been “left to rot” now.
How did a simple monthly update post turn into this? New content excites some (@brian72856373: “It’s gonna be a good month”) and others complain about inclusivity or bug fixes. And then there’s @itsgaryguy, calling for six-player galleons for bigger sea battles, which I totally support.
Rare seems to be between a rock and a hard place. Keeping the game fresh with events and updates while trying to push for Pride Month. Really a bad situation. Those wanting fixes have a point, yet that anti-inclusivity drivel: Just unnecessary noise.
Even with that said, Sea of Thieves will still be one of those games whose community is just as chaotic as the local crosswind. The June update has promises of gold and glory, if not some heated Twitter debates. So, whether you’re out here for the pirate life or for the drama, these are just some really good times, and they aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.
