A Community Divided! The FUTURE Of Sea Of Thieves
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Hello! This is somewhat of a follow-up video to my previous entry, this time taking on my opinion on how I view the current state of the game, and concerns for the future surrounding the seas.
All content from artists featured in this video can be found below.
RefinedZero: • Sea of Thieves Is DYIN...
GigglingGhosty: • Sea of Thieves is NOT ...
ToxieSinclaire: • Cheaters in Sea of Thi...
Gnoob: • the most broken update...
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Captain Falcore: • Sea of Thieves Develop...
Also, Rare, if this does end up on your desk, please understand I want to be a force for good, understand I approach this from the point of helping address the problem for the benefit of the community.
Filmed live over at www.twitch.tv/wezzycruze
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Thank you for watching!
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It's hard to explain the feeling over Community weekend, but I think you summed it up really well. The Sea felt dormant, two 8 streak burning blades with a total of 2 ships coming to challenge it was just disappointing to see. The Burning Blade event especially feels reliant on other players to make it engaging in my eyes and without that it's just another series of fetch quests, except this time even the Skeletons won't fight you.
Just because they didn’t go after an event many people have already achieved many times over? Just last night I saw 3 ships fighting over the burning blade so idk what servers you’ve been on. Also keep in mind that many people were doing the gilded voyages rare gave out during the weekend. Sail to the shores of plenty and you would have seen a lot of activity.
People were farming hourglass... What is the point of having Burning Blade with out skeleton curse? To get rewards as Burning blade you need to have Skeleton curse to unlock cosmetics. In my opinion they made mistake by not adding skeleton curse to Burning blade commendations or give reputation for Servants of the Flame Faction and not reapers. Like it would be other way to get the skeleton curse except hourglass and if you sink it sell to Stranger and get reputation for Ghosts. And like selling one would give you 5-7 faction lvl's. Then maybe people would interact and attack that ship more.
You guys make good points. Though, I used the burning blade as a main example to cut down on my comment's length, but we also did other World Events, Gilded Voyages, Hourglass and even Siren Song in the hopes that we would come across some people, and outside of the singular actual crew doing it and a loss farmer that we went up against in Hourglass, we found pretty much nobody.
its literally so boring cuz no one ever wants to fight it
@@calebisgoated9690 I can’t do a basic skeleton fort without at least one ship trying to fight for it. Are you on safer seas by mistake?
The time that Rare should of spent expanding lore and world play area was instead spent more on the emporium and on changes that the majority of the older playerbase despised.
Its going to take an absolute work space miracle for Rare to reverse their made bad rep and get the game in the state it was during arena. Whether that being improving servers, reverting PVP changes or improving community communication, I just don't see it happening.
SOT has had its run and the next season might very well be its last.
"show them there's a community that's here to help" *shows a clip of the burning blade absolutely unloading on a sloop, that they set fire to, and are also boarding* 😂
Almond spent about 20 minutes with them, it was helpful. But yes, the editor in me was like "lol, keep it that way"
I can answer where the community went. We quit. Rare was actively ignoring the cheating issue, ignoring support Tickets or even attacking people that tried to bring these things to the public attention
Rare messed up big and the player count shows it
Personnally, i dont think the level cap will mean anything to cheaters. They will either buy accounts with the level cap, or their cheatung client will just get the levels for them. Cheaters will no doubt try to find a way around whatever requirements Rare puts on them to stop them
@@tinyfoxtato8924 yeah valid points. I’m not super sure how the cheating clients work, but they’re shifty and always trying something.
I am a new PS5 player to Sea of Thieves. I love this game problems and all.
@@tommyhawthorne8223 sometimes there’s glitches and I still laugh about it, and while I probably shouldn’t sometimes, I have accepted the state for such a long time, it just happens.
I love the game too, used to play on PC, now on PS5.
This is a fantastic video which highlights everything going on so well!
They really do need to be putting more care and love into the game again with regular updates and also look at how they can take action against cheat client creators who are tanking their game.
I also feel the same way as you where I was inspired to aim for Sea of Thieves partner but after Rares reaction towards myself and other people speaking up (e.g mass blocks, treating myself and others like we're evil for trying to get some more security put in the game ect) I have had to reconsider any of those goals and put the game on the shelf while looking into what the best way forward for content creation is going to be. ❤
I'm fully in your corner on that. Would be happy to assist any way I can as well.
There is so many features they could add to the game if they listened to the community, unfortunately I think a lot of community members are fed up, nothing lasts forever and it's ok to pivot your goals and content if things are not working. Many of the most experienced and long-term players have left the game and this has stemmed way prior to the influx of cheaters I believe, roughly from what I've seen around the end of Arena. I have been unable to since the exit of Arena which killed a lot of our events to even find passion to log on that much anymore.
There are also many communities (including ours) and streamers like you that feel they can make a major impact to Sea of Thieves but have unfortunately been able to get through the brick wall as you would call it - most likely going to shoot ourselves in the foot here but enough is enough! I've seen some of your posts whilst scrolling through Twitter and more needs to be done. The community wasn't always like this, and I hate seeing what it has happened to SOT and how disconnected everything seems.
Normally we don't really post on social media, but Wezzy got my attention. I do hope that changes are implemented, and we don't see players like yourself with a voice willing to stand up not be listened too.
@@silkenver thank you for your comment friend! I hope they’re listening, there’s a few weeks left of this season. I wish I could say I’m even cautiously optimistic for the future, but it is hard to be.
Sot was my all time favorite game to play around 2 years ago, I still play it, but it’s boring, rare seems focused on adding new content nobody wanted or needed instead brand new and intriguing world events or even a new faction, it’s just the same thing we’ve been doing with a new coat of paint. Most people I see run away now, even hourglass is miserable since people just run until you give up if you’re better. The game was dying a year ago, it’s dead now, it’s not past the point of fixing it but it will be unbelievably soon if they do nothing to fix the issues that’s plagued the game since launch
I understand what you mean, I left just recently because I’m tired of Rare’s stupidity in this whole situation.
It’s a weird one, as someone who has played since beta consistently, I’ve seen the ups and downs with player count but recently it feels lower than say 4 years ago. Hg is just the same people now and it’s getting to the point where I’m just seeing the same people in adventure, a lot of them I’ll recognise from hg too. There does also seem to be a feeling of complete disconnection now too compared to year 1 and 2 of the game where true, the game was smaller just like the community, but now it feels like it’s very much a “this is what is happening and oh, you guys don’t get a say in it” whereas it used to be “these are the ideas we’ve got coming, let us know what you think!”.
Regardless, great video covering this, keep it up!
@@ITheMeliodasI thank you. And yes, it certainly feels like that.
Ngl i tried to get into sea of thieves and it’s just a bunch of racist teenagers
There is a die-hard community that just wants people to play and enjoy the game. But unfortunately there are also a lot of Teens using Slurrs as well unfortunately.
@@CallingAlmond I saw. I do want to play for the experience. I can tell nobody wants to play with noobs fr and others just join others just to troll and burn ships
@@CallingAlmond I just need to find a crew/people to play with.
Yeah, someone called me some unsavory words the other day
Rare is gearing the game towards POTENTIAL players. At the cost of concurrent ones. That is the basics of what is happening.
New players are more likely to buy cosmetics from emporium so they want to get as many people trying the game and spending that first chunk of change. They don't really care if those players continue to play because the longer you play this game the less cosmetics you buy.
They aren't rewarding players for being loyal to the game. So they started looking elsewhere.
Sent an error to rare for turning in pop up plunder grade 5 reaper flag we dug up. Counted as 3 gold. Had the video proof and their response was. We will fix it in a future update and we are closing ticket. I checked Google and found out this has been happening in previous pop up plunders..... I'm disappointed in rare for their lack of compassion or understanding. We go through the trouble of doing one of their events and it doesn't work. We don't get an apology or even the slightest I'm sorry. All my teammate and I got was a "oops better luck next time" is what it feels like. 1600 hours in the game and have brought multiple people to the game and taught many players how to play. It just feels like they are no longer listening to anyone in community and just keep crapping stuff out hoping it'll work.
honestly don't bother playing.
You can also get banned for no reason other than being framed by bad actors.
And even if you have proof of the actions, Support team will NEVER listen to you.
Their support team are the worst and only helps cheaters
Give the game a year, it'll either be dead, barely alive or they'll actually do something that feels like they give some what of a shit.
Another point i think you missed is alot a people play this through gamepass and xbox has increased the price of ultimate to 19.99/mo
@@avi8tor131 ah valid point, certainly wasn’t aware of that. So you’ve be paying essentially $20 monthly and then an extra however much on top for the plunder pass. Which makes me think that PlayStation5 is the upfront cost, then the added cost of PlayStation online, and then a plunder pass on top of that.
Toxxie sinclair has quit SoT, quite sad to see the state of the game push away people who are partnered with the company making it.
@@Chellzie I was originally shocked but when and had a look, I don’t think they’ve quit based on their Twitter reaction, but they’ve certainly stepped away. Many of the content creators / partners have stepped away.
@@WezzyCruze she pinged people in her discord saying she’s done with the game and making content with it. Which tbh doesn’t surprise me
@@Chellzie I’m not in that discord, I should jump over and see what’s being discussed as well. Thank you for the heads up.
Cheaters ruin every game they go in. All for the sake of their own amusement. Games are dying because of them
I hope companies take the cheat devs ro court more often
@@keybladegames_real the bungie case is certainly interesting!
I've loved the game from the start, too bad some have to be toxic. However I just add to the experiences in any game and I move on to another server.
Wow so big gaming companies have the resources to go after cheating companies themselves? Wonder why this isnt more common.
5:54 I'd like to add that the season 12 community weekend was during summer break and the season 13 one wasn't. That probably also had a huge impact on why there's such a difference between the two numbers wise
Yes, absolutely. You could also add in the fact that it was the season when PS5's version of the game had dropped too. A 50% drop off is still alarming, regardless of that kind of thing. It was holidays in Australia during Community Weekend, and that really didn't affect our stamp in terms of seeing an uptick in players. Again, it's all anecdotal.
I will say that, season 12 com weekend was ps5 drop as well.
Regardless rare failed to keep a playerbase seeing as this was still a weekend where most people will have off.
5:35 'I will probably never become a SoT partner because I say this' 😂 Oh pleeeeassseeeee get off your high horse.
this video has explain a lot for me, i took a 2 month hiatus from gaming and just recently got back into SOT, and the past couple days i’ve hardly seen any players in adventure. it’s just a barren wasteland and it’s honestly really sad to see
@@Zarmyne it really is, isn’t it.
Im a ps5 player in sea of theives and wasn't in its long and cheaters teleported into cannon and kill me floating in they air.
@@energizergunny probably best to switch to console only servers, they seem to not like that as much
I find the title of the video somewhat misleading. I don't see this as a divided community, when there is a bunch of idiots with no self esteem cheating against other players. And it's not the reason I quit the game for now. The reason I left is, that I am a Solo Player. I like PvE content. But not only were the last few seasons rootet almost entirely to lager crews making each other eat lead, many of the changes also made it increasingly more difficult for solo players to defend against other crews. Being a Solo is already hard the way it is, and not being able to take part in the later seasons content at all as a mediocre skilled player is frustrating.
@@minomerle9906 totally agreeable! But also, it was a double meaning with the stats and over 50% drop off between community weekends.
The music is 🤌
I hate cheaters, but both ideas are bad:
1. Kill cam won't work here. It would be used for scouting enemy ship, checking how much loot they have, who they are etc. Bad idea in this kind of adventure game
2.Mandatory Safer Seas is a barrier for joining friends. Imagine situation "come play with us, buy/install the game and jump on our ship". It would not be possible.
Also, we as community, have no impact on direction of Sea of Thieves. We are just sheeps guided by gods of Rare, telling us what we can and what we can't do in our pirate life's. It is their game, not ours, that we play. All we can do is keep playing or quit. I will keep playing until Sea of Thieves 2, which BTW I believe is the only way to save Sea of Thieves (current game is in non-fixable state, too much spaghetti code).
Amazing video mate, hopefully something changes. :(
I certainly hope so too. Thank you for the comments as always.
Ok all you said was relevant. But I kinda missed where is the community divided? Where is the split?
Well, based on the stats in the video it's estimated that there's been about a 50% drop in player count. So half the community don't feel that the game is worth playing anymore, while the other half do.
I'd call that pretty divided 😅
@@shortycz4741 valid point, I certainly should have made that a little clearer, but yeah, it’s the 50% drop off, it’s more a literal take on the community being divided almost. Thanks!
Hope SoT sees this
Dang, this is another video of some people that I don’t know (until today) tells me the game is dying. We ALL get it the game is in a weird state right now, the people who can’t see that either are on the coping train and missed their stop or new players who wanna try it out. Look point is for me I know the game is a broken H311 hole but it’s my favorite hole and dangit I will love it deep down until Microsoft does it part
@@Hawkeye_2346 it’s late, but I’m pretty sure I’ve never said the game is dying in this video, but I understand the sentiment all the same.
That said, yeah, I’ll probably have FOTD stacked when Microsoft pulls the plug. Not saying that’d be soon, but it’s an online game, it WILL come to an end at some point, that’s the facts of it.
I just try to make new friends and have cool adventures on the seas while I can.
@@WezzyCruze that’s the point I’m trying to make (sorry if I came out as rude) but the way I see it, either Rare will truly get back on its feet and sot will be the rival to almost any Microsoft game, or it’ll fall and Microsoft themselves will put it under if Joe Neat doesn’t
@@Hawkeye_2346 nah all good fam! I appreciate the comment all the same :)
Since rare is focused so hard on emporium they need to make SoT free!
The problem is rare allowing tickets to go unsupported as well as having mods who let feelings take over.
The constant ban wave of legitimate players from official sot discord and twitter is pushing people away ratger than pulling.
I can say i have come across female cheaters they are super rare though.
I'm gonna be so for real its probably mostly because school is started up again in most places in america, and american teens are the #1 audience of this game
for the community day stats, i mean
@@TOAB-ik8fu we've just had our school holidays here in Australia and noticed a slightttttt boost in younger players during the day and on weekends, but the regulars have certainly dropped out.
"Modern gamers" couldnt handle old CoD lobbies or even basic smack talk IRL. Thenmore you make something a sanitized hugbox, the more competitive types peace out and thats why HG is full of either cheaters. Because now if the only way to trash talk is behind a ban, then you may as well go all the way. By being a busy body, youve created a larger communoty issue. Instead of jist learning to handle it like an adult, or the correct notion of talking smack back.
I hope season 14 will revive the game with its huge meta changes like season 12
I think we the player should have the ability to block the players so that we or they never spawn on the same servers again. Done I fixed it.
@@Avrenac that would be an interesting concept!
@WezzyCruze I have had the idea for a while now, effectively you would have cheater accounts shuffled together on the same servers. I doubt that cheaters would have much fun all stuck together and not being able to 'out cheat' one another (working something like the GTA V lobbies). Rare could then also decide if they wanted to ban accounts or not at that point, I can see how this could be exploited, but something (heck anything) has got to be better than what we have now. ☹️
@@Avrenac there was a game a while back that punish cheaters but putting them into the same server together, I can’t remember what it was off the top of my head.
@@WezzyCruze oh 100% the way to do it, I guess I could put something on the SOT subredit about it.
I have well over 2000 hours of this game played and I once loved this game. The Rare company doesn’t care about the ongoing problems they have and that has been shown countless times, from 2020 ban in arena to supporting bad streamers then allowing cheaters in the game with no information. Rare are prideful and refuse to see that there is an issue. I loved this game because it felt unique the different types of people that you meet was always one of the best moments for me, but that is in the past and if this continues then they will lose more than just players.
I have encountered plenty of toxic women on sea of thieves. However never seen a female hacker
The game is going in a bad direction rare only cares about the casual players who will buy ancient coins they dont care about the core playerbase epsecially the pvp community.
i started in season 12 and was having a blast. I still play, but now the servers have been unacceptable tbh. The lag on the server end has been unreal for my group
"I want this game to succeed"
You make it sound like the game was just released...Its hit that time in its life, where it trying some new things and figuring itself. After all, it running on an old version of itself.
PS: You guys are gonna flip on S14 if S13 is such a bad thing.
I compare it to something like No Man’s Sky, which was originally a concept in this video but removed for time purposes.
That game we could make the argument is similar to Sea Of Thieves: both empty on content at launch, developers continue to work on it. The only difference is NMS is seeing an uptick in players now, getting more this late in the games release, with all updates being free to those who purchased, on a team of 60 odd developers. Where we’re still paying x amount a month for SoT, with a dev team of 500+ and it’s having an opposite effect. Hopefully that makes sense, it’s early morning here haha.
Community weekend was definitely a let down, i didnt encounter any hackers even in hourglass which was great but i hardly saw any obvious fresh crews, granted they probably shouldnt even be in that game mode but i also noticed an almost complete lack of even more casual players, they were all veterans or had at least been playing since season 8 so it was kind of disappointing not being able to have chill matches. And adventure sucked cause yeah barely any casual players were on, just veterans or people who had only come back just for community weekend. I still plan to keep playing but i always find myself wishing id gotten on this game 2-3 years ago when i couldve grinded this game out much more smoothly.
@@xertion8567 it certainly feels like that, hey.
There is No future, except a possibility that someone will buy rare.
Great video!
@@shott1853 thank you kindly!
I've run in to 3 females cheaters, they're rare but they do exist. To be clear those are confirmed cheaters, doing things like teleport and insta ladder. Not just hitting shots or being skilled. The female cheaters are much more tame it seemed though, only ones of the 3 spammed summer offensive stuff. At the end of the day nothing they say bothers me in any way. There's going to be people in the world who think like them, I just laugh them off and go on.
That's the first case I've heard of female cheaters then. So thanks for that. I'm yet to experience any myself, but in OCE, it's mostly young male teenagers with warped world views. Sadly.
Did they actually speak? If so, they could've just been some edgy 13yrold using a voice changer.
Give us Arena back!!!! Or at least make it a TDM weapons only mode so people can actually practice with weapons. When I introduce new players, they are turned off by not being able to practice fighting people with weapons until they are being straight bonked and losing all of their treasure... Give people an area to do that. Otherwise people will continue to leave and us OGs are going to keep wondering where everyone is.
@@Thamb0 I did hear that friendly fire PvP was a thing when the game launched but was abused, I need to look into it. I feel it’s something that would need to be looked into, but something they could opt in like hourglass.
They need to show more pvp side of things
I love this game
The story, gaming and everything
As a console player, The community weekend was quite sad to see… in term of cheater it is almost imposible to find a cheater in hourglass or on adventure but the server were just empty. On Xbox on a community weekend the average Time of finding a match on hg was around 7-10min and on the PvE aspect of the game the sea felt dead (sometime’s I was even wondering if I was not on Safer sea !) stacked 10 Fotd and no one showed, and when I wanted to do some « Classic » PvP They were all running away, yelling racial slur telling me to « go back to hourglass » This is the same has the arena, two community too divided to understand What this game is really about.
(Sorry for the bad english 😅)
@@artyom8849 that’s good feedback to hear from a console player. 10 FOTDs is crazy work too!
Well I think they should put resources to hot fix a a lot of bugs that are in the game to make the experience better and smoother, along with making hourglass better for example my friend says if you sink the person will that sank you then you get your streak back i think you should be able to queue in hourglass and not have to re buy supplies it burns everyone out when you queue sink and requeue just to sink again and lose them all over again, and last they need to stop adding changes that no one asked for ex: the blunder bust along with cutting the grind down, the games grind is so long now there’s no reason why to not cut the grind down a little bit but that’s my take
Can’t wait for Sea Of Thieves: Civil War
@@Hudfilmsproductions Sea Of Thieves: Endgame
Need a one piece collaboration
I wanted to play hg and get to 40 or 50 from 105 but I felt like it wasn’t worth it low rep and I have 15 million gold so
So long as you're having fun, that's what's important.
@@WezzyCruze I guess but I’m bad at PvP
@@Bob728aa Keep trying, I don't consider myself fantastic. But you win or learn, there's no losing.
Screw HitboBo,, he sucks
For me personally game is seasonal. It is perfect summer game. And summer is ended i still paying some of it but i feel soon i will move on to other games. One of more i reason i can't palay this game more is obvious meta in weapons... Double gunning ruining game and every one just abuse shit out of it... Its not fun to play against or as double gunner. They need reconsider and revamp weapon choice. As for now it is just aids to play against. And i think it really scares people away from game when they get killed in seconds.... All my friends dropped game instantly after running into one of sweaty double gunners.
Game needs rebalance weapons and do the classic rock/paper/scissors. As there needs to be counter to each build... It would make game more dynamic and more weapons would be used. As now you use sword just for diving.... Knife is fun but cant do shit against double gunner.
Other than that. Visuals amazing love it. Spaghetti code abuses are ruing game, for example fishing road cannon launch or ladder launch ruin the experience in my opinion. As they are literally bug abuse.
I was with you 90% of the way until I realized all this was just an attempt to trigger Rare in to letting you in to their circle of partnered streamers. Thats just thirsty. Rare does not care about the community. They only started caring until they realized they were losing players hand over fist and it was affecting their bottom line. The entire game was a rip off of an arcade game that was located at Disney Springs. They stopped putting any effort in to story line. The second they go back in to focusing on lore based adventures they can see the return of a percentage of OGs in the game. Don't act like you care though just to thirst trap in to becoming a partner. Thats just corny.
I feel like there’s a few things to respond to here.
I’m sorry if my intent wasn’t conveyed clear enough. I don’t care if I ever become an SoT Partner or affiliate or whatever, it’s a pie in the sky kind of thing, I’m 35 and streaming is certainly a young persons field, because speaking honestly about the things I’m passionate about is something I value more. A slight TMI into my background, I’ve left jobs, bands, projects, etc based on my inability to not speak to the truth of the situation. I’d made no secret though of becoming a TH-cam partner, which in itself, means I wouldn’t be restricted in what I can and can’t say (to a degree, I’d assume). Still, I can see how you got to your reasoning, but that’s certainly not where my intent lies. I won’t force you to change your opinion either way.
In my previous video, I showcased cheaters, and I can’t imagine that did any favours for potential prospects. Again, I’d rather speak my truth and help signal boost the voices of the community, and that’s whether Rare listens to any of them or myself, or not.
Do you have any further information on the game at Disney Springs? That sounds interesting to look into.
Thanks for taking the time to comment, even if you kinda try ripping me a new one.
@@WezzyCruze You literally end the video basically begging and offering Rare your services. If you are going to be honest be honest but that dishonest salespitch at the end shows your real intention.
@@JiuJitsuRadio yeah dude, as like a game tester or something. Not a partner in that instance.
Apologies I didn’t clarify that, but I do feel you’re quite set in your train of thought.
It needs sloop only servers option, a sloop going up against a brig or gallon can be seriously unfair when it's 3-4 players against 1, I understand it's a pirate game but when you get seriously outnumbered it can be frustrating and just turn off feeling what's the point, so I really do think that sloop only servers would bring back a lot of players to the game as long as they keep all the benefits of a normal server and without the restrictions of safer seas
The best way to fix cheating is to fix cheating is to fix the game.
Most cheaters are actually really good players who got false banned for a really stupid reason like camping.
If we had things like Arena, quickswap and higher fov as well as cleaner movement, many cheaters would play legit.
@@sSteppingStones while i don’t doubt there’s legit players that got done for spawn camping, many, many, MANY cheaters have either been incredibly racist and vile in what they talk about, or ended up redbearded and are doing a workaround for that because they wouldn’t accept the timeout for what happened to them initially. There’s a lot of reasons and factors in play. I’ve only encountered one cheater who wasn’t banned at all, and was doing it cause he was bored with the game, but it’s hard to trust anything someone says when they’re cheating in game.
Yesterday I played for over three hours and the entire time I did not see any other players,atleast not in the Shores of Plenty because thats where I was the whole time,dont get me wrong it was nice being able to do a bunch of quests undisturbed but in the end I know that's not a good sign for the game.
And personally, I find the Shores Of Plenty the place I like to sail because it's straight up pretty and has easier islands to traverse. When I don't see people there, I feel weird already. To go three hours without seeing anyone is a weird feeling.
Idk what servers you all play on, I’ve never have issues finding others.
@@Catbeans99 OCE. Very small pool of players to begin with.
It's sad to see where we are as a community. I'm hoping it gets better because frankly I'm not sticking around if it doesn't get better. The harassment has gotten out of control.
I've been sailing around with friends giving out loot to newer players to encourage them to hang around. We also pretend to be border patrol checking their papers, it's fun.
White Knight stop playing nerd
@@Successkid2014 ok mister niceguy… 👀
rare doesent care dude, they will continue their ignorance
It’s just a game man , if you play 12+ hours a day the game still feels fun and refreshing… you meet tons of ships.
If Rare would pay my bills I'd happily drop everything to play this game 12+ hours a day.