100% agree here. Get rid of the seasonal update cadence and deadlines will never be broken because they cannot be. Year 1 was brilliant. They released updates WHEN they were ready. Not by a certain date. They create dates which content is mean't to be released at, get rid of em! Delays aside, can't wait for the rest of the Legend of Monkey Island. Really hoping for some big story moments! 🤞
Seasons wouldn’t be an issue if they gave themselves realistic timelines to work with. This comes off as incompetence on their part. This is a 3 MONTH delay. This is not a “we’re just running a little behind” scenario. The merge of season 10 and 11 also makes me think they were unprepared. Did they not have plans for season 10 to have enough content?
I did everything possible in monkey island the 1rst day it came out and yes I have completed every other tall tale I’ve been playing since update 1 and also bayta version the devs allowed me to play some bayta version before it came out but only for like a hour but I kept all my stuff
When I watched the announcement video, all I was thinking was "People are gonna be maaaad", but it's been a nice surprise to have only really seen positive reactions
Honestly sort of pissed I missed out on the Adventures that tie into Monkey Island, making the reveal feel moot and pointless. As a returning player from when this game launched with fuck all to do, I'm extremely disappointed with how the story's been handled, where if I want to catch up on everything, I have to watch TH-cam instead of playing content. What's this game been doing the past 6+ years?!? Why is the story of the game tied to FOMO?!?! This is bullshit!
I've been returning to the game multiple times, but this was one of the worst updates as I have never done a single adventure, so I was playing 2 hours of content with the most confusing 5 minutes of my life, and I only found out that the adventures are part of the main story with this video
What worries me is that in the videos they don't seem all that excited about S10. I understand that while you are breaking sad news you would be solemn but when talking about season 10 there is no smirks, no smiles, no excitement. They have been very excited about Monkey Island. They love that this other IP is being weaved into SoT. So there being seemingly no joy about S10 makes me worried that it is going to be lackluster (besides being tardy).
Or, it’s likely what I think it is. Guilds, if it’s guilds it would be very difficult to do properly, and assuming the issues of making it work aren’t going well, I can see why they would be disappointed looking. It’s like planning this major event only for reality to set in that it isn’t as easy to set up as they thought.
Something really bad must've happened if they were a week off and needed to delay it by an additional 2 months. On one hand I'm glad but its still gonna launch with numerous issues anyways.
They are finding it very difficult to go forward in the game with new content. The xbox one is keeping them from moving forward. A large percentage of players play on this platform still. its over 10 years old and then need to stop. the newest console is now 3 years old. they just need to turn off old support but they wont because they like the login numbers.
@@14mattomatto On one hand I agree the old console holds the game back on the other hand support for the XBONE is not adding permanent glitches/stability issues to SeriesX and PC. Every update of new content SOT becomes more janky. Same audio/video glitches have been occurring for years. For how long are we going to load in dead at events? Crashing becoming more common and last season added a new type of freezing where you MUST close the game.
To me its an indicator of mismanagement of some kind. It's not "oh we're sorry guys we need an extra week or two to squash some bugs" its two and a half months, plus the delay from earlier in the season (which was at least two weeks, if not longer?) and you have them 3 whole months behind schedule (perhaps longer). This isn't a brand new game on a brand new engine, this is something that's been out and tinkered with for a while. One would assume they know what they're doing with it now, which leads me to conclude that something must be seriously wrong with how they develop things for them to be a quarter of a year behind where they're supposed to be. I would expect them to be able to make most of an update in that time, let alone the roughly 7+ months it will have been by the time we get the update. I love this game and I respect the work that goes into it, but that doesn't prevent me from sharing my conclusion that there has to be something going on, you just don't delay for this long in such a content drought when your players are more upset that they've ever been with the state of the game.
Maybe this will be the moment they decide to go back to the old way of doing updates and release the cosmetics pass separate from the content. Then it would be a great moment I really enjoyed the SURPRISE element of the big updates, made the news updates exciting too.
I agree with the delay. Season 10 will be either the final dawn of sea of theives or a new horizon. They will need time to make a massive update, well hopefully a massive update.
even though I'd rather a functioning season with delays rather than something rushed, its still unacceptable for a season to last 7 months from one of xboxs headline games
Maybe season 10 was the friends we made along the way. "You forget a thousand things everyday make sure season 10 of SOT is one of them" Michael from GTA V
So putting my conspiracy theory hat on, I believe they have been damaged control since the mystery. I believe they knew they couldn't finish season 10 in times so they rushed monkey island and change the mystery to give the community more things too play with. It's interesting that monkey island ends 1 month before season 10 update and we get the delay a week after monkey island.
Can’t wait to see everyone’s disappointment when it finally launch. Also, seasons used to work until time-limited sailing around the map adventures came in.
I can appreciate creators at Rare want to tell a story but it's now undeniable focus on adventures are taking away from health of the game. Every update/time-limited adventure comes with permanent bugs/glitches which never seem to be fixed.
As much as I like them moving the plot forwards, I think they're really spreading themselves thin churning out limited time adventures all the time and it's showing
They used to do a 3-month update schedule and couldn't keep to that. Then somehow they tried to do smaller monthly updates and definitely failed at that. Then they finally tried a season pass system on a set schedule. I knew then that they'd regularly fail at it. Rare should be trying to do small regular updates with just cosmetics, and occasionally putting out large actual-change updates whenever they're actually able. I also would pay a hefty sum for a no-progress player-side server system where I can play through all the old updates. Have access to previous locations, characters, and adventures.
I agree rare should get rid of seasons lot of them just don’t feel like actual content updates. Seasons 1, 3, 7, 8 are about the only ones I can remember actual content and it being fun or new I would count season 9 for monkey island but season 9 as a whole just isn’t all that good of a season.
And besides that monkey island is seperate from season 9, the only content we got was literally 1 chest and sell it 30 times, I'm sure moving it takes some effort do develop but they havent even done that, which was a big feature of the update, in all this time
I haven’t agreed with any of the seasonal scrapping ideas before as I personally really enjoy grinding Plunder Pass’, but making them permanent and just coupling them with disparately timed large drops would be fantastic
Thanks for the video, it's kind of how I feel about the game over the past year or so. I hope whatever is going on internally at Rare gets resolved, a little more transparency would be nice.
I will admit, the seasonal update schedule we have now is bad for some projects like what we will be getting in season 10. However I still do appreciate the seasons since they allow the devs to add new cosmetic content to earn along with currency. Overall the seasons have their benefits but they don’t fit well with releasing new content like tall tales or things like world events
I think personally rare should go with the same season system that new halo did, pick one out of all and thats what you level up, it would be nice if we could buy and switch between all of them
I see this as mostly positive, we still have the other two monkey island quests to look forward too and a massive update now in October with them combining season 10 and 11
@@thatdude1435 It will have some "Features it was not originally planned to have", not a total combination, but very possible that some of 11 will bleed over
I think Monkey island and events like G&G will bring players back for a day or two, but honestly this situation is just PERFECT proof that sot needs permanent season passes, longer season passes and infinite gold and doubloon tiers. Weekly trials should get a revamp too, having some sort of weekly counter to complete content introduced in the season that rewards you with gold and doubloons or possibly even a trinket at the end of the month. Small changes like this could draw out the initial season hype longer and give players a reason to carry on grinding or completing seasonal content without feeling like it’s pointless.
Rare has ruined the game, sad to see it. Flying keg men are everywhere, can’t run hourglass fights because of it. Adventure has nothing new in years, they’ve just mashed the PVE together in different ways like the FOF, the players are board and even the dedicated are leaving.
Is it good that they are waiting to make sure things "work", as well as new Rare game features can? Yes, of course. But the fact that it's been delayed a few times now and they are just now really acknowledging it baffles me. Not to mention that someone like a development or project lead should have prepared and known there would be a delay based on where they were at months ago. And probably did. But again, there was no communication to the players. There was no, "We're sorry, but it may take an extra few weeks or a month to work out the kinks." It's three months. Just when players thought we were going to get something new, outside of an alright but not all that replayable tall tale, we get the news that it will be another three months before we see any real meaningful changes to the game again. Remember, there has been one adventure this year, one yearly anniversary event, and a four week mystery hunt that was almost entirely online and out of game. The last time we had any real meaningful changes to the game happened in March. It will be the end of October before we get whatever may come next. If you don't include world event rebalancing, mostly meant for smaller crews, the last real shakeup would have been nearly a year before the next season releases. Let that sink in for a moment. Yes, it's good that they are delaying it to HOPEFULLY make a more enjoyable and stable launch experience. But this should have been realized and communicated before it was delayed several times and we are at the door of the new season releasing. I feel like they spent more time and energy focusing on their social medias being boosted for a month than they have promoting any in game content the past seven months, outside of the endless emporium. Players have every right to be outright annoyed at this point. If Season 10 isn't a true shakeup and gives reason for many veteran players to return and play consistently again, this game is going to be in even harder times going forward.
5:40 I mean, it's one of the Ashen Gems, Flameheart uses them to corrupt pirates into becoming his minions. They grant you power while you have them infused in your body, but they erode at your mind, causing you to want more of them. Once you have too many, depending on how strong of a pirate you are, you can become anything from a peon to a full blown Ashen Lord. Source, the Sea of Thieves RPG, Book of Voyages. I have a feeling LeChuk is slowly being corrupted by Flameheart, and it'll turn into a big fight with changing Boss Theme.
Honestly this actually will help the season 10 and monkey island stuff as they aren’t fighting eachother for attention and one thing I hope is added is that there is some customizable ship expansion that uses majic to have a new area open where captaincy stuff can be more used mainly on the sloop then we can get to customize our ship with furniture and the area can disappear and close if you are at shallow water or in a fight and it’s not a load area also I won’t be surprised if the Xbox one will be dropped for support as well I’ve used one for nearly a year and it was so laggy and now with the series X it’s drastic with the difference so maybe the lower hardware might make it harder
@@xcountdownx5220 dude there’s a tall tale each month it actually means that in October which is when the tall talles are over if would be time for season 10
Look at the release dates of the MI tall tales. Look at the new projected release date of Season 10. Coincidence? Perhaps. Or perhaps it's Disney pulling the strings. Disney is about Disney and Disney alone. Understandably they would want their product (MI) to be put into the spotlight for both the SoT community and the gaming world at large. Why would they want to share that stage? Why would Disney want Rare to place its focus on something other than its own product while said product is being rolled out? The moment Rare inked the deal with Disney, the direction of the game was fundamentally changed: That is, what's taken place since a handful of months prior to the A Pirate's Life launch, its current state, and what will in all likelihood continue to happen, is the logical outcome of getting into bed with a corportate entity such as Disney. If you believe that somehow the trajectory will magically change on 10/19, I'm not sure what to say. I do hope that I am wrong, about all of it. I love this game, it's community, and Rare's passion. But it's my contention that they're no longer actually in control of things, and haven't been for some time now. Again, I hope I'm wrong. Let me be clear here and state that I'm not saying Rare is lying about wanting to make sure Season 10 is fully functionable at launch; I believe them. But both things can be true, and yet not entirely the case at the same time: semantics.
Honestly the updates that take the longest are system updates. Remember how Season 7 took super long and the only thing it added was new commendations and the ability to name your ship? And then Season 8 came right on time and it added an elaborate PVP mode with like dozens of new cosmetics including like four new curses?
Suppose it'll be a longer wait but as with alot of other people i'd prefer them to release it when its done and ready rather than throw it out by their promise date and bug fix it for 3 months. As for monkey island, as "short" as the first one was for me (about 3-4 hours) i still enjoyed it alot and look forward to the other parts! i also think it'd be quite the entrance too for flameheart if he appeared in the final one, maybe to take the sword now that its in a place he can get it easier and away from the Pirate Lord. For fun, going off ashinyrays idea of Flameheart making an appearance at the end- imagine if at the end of fighting Lechuck, rather than him being done by your own hands.. a decent sized group of reaper dressed skeletons barge in. They surround the area to prevent anyone from leaving and also start to make a path in front of LeChuck, seemingly for someone to walk through when suddenly Flameheart steps in behind the last skeleton, maybe that last skeleton is the voice of the flame or Flameheart Jr. Flameheart is seen to be in full form and walks up to LeChuck, takes his sword, and finishing Lechuck right then and there without mercy before saying something to you. Perhaps revealing he manipulated Lechuck in order to get it out to an easier location to retrieve it or maybe it was a convenient moment where LeChuck didnt really know what he had, just knew it was a powerful artifact, and that it ended up sealing his own fate.
I don't think seasons in a live service sandbox game like Sea of Thieves is a bad idea at all, in theory. The problem is that the launch of a new season rarely actually does anything to affect players' gameplay loop. Sometimes there's 1 new voyage and it's either the best available and you spam it until you never wanna do it again, or it's undertuned from release and completely pointless. The plunder pass is completed in 2-3 decent sessions even for kinda semi-casual players. The rest of the game is filled with commendations and milestones that seem forced in just to give players more "fill the bar" stuff. It's all hollow. The main attraction of every season trailer is the Pirate Emporium and not because Rare wants to be pushy with their marketing, there just isn't anything else really new most of the time. I've been playing Sea of Thieves since way before seasons were a thing and, in my opinion, the Hourglass PVP system and the PVE event scaling system have had the biggest real effects on how the game can be played, nothing else even comes close in my opinion. Remember when they tried to hype up the release of stools and being able to sit on objects? That should be enough said right there... We need more NEW content that goes along and synchronizes well with the content that is already in the game before, not move on to the new 1 voyage that you do because the others give you way less rewards. When was the last time people farming Athena rep had actual options? It's either been the latest voyage or the FoF, everything else is a waste of time even considering doing if you want to farm reputation. It's the same with the gold values attached to treasure items and gold costs for things you can buy for your ship or character. It just doesn't matter enough and new things aren't coming out regularly enough. The fact that the playerbase seems filled to the brim with people who refuse to wrap their head around the concept of PVPVE, probably isn't much help either. If they try to release PVP and PVE oriented content simultaneously, that have some sort of connection to one another, entitled snowflakes throw tantrums.
@@PilgrimetroThey have said we are getting Season 11’s big feature in Season 10 to make up for the delay, which in their podcast they have described as something to bring players together in a way similar to the Chest of Fortune.
Disappointed in rare for focusing on emporium and plunder pass content instead of the actual updates. Seasons need to go. If they can’t logistically handle releasing updates on time they need to stop setting expectations for us. Also, if they’re focused on adventures, they need to allow people who are too busy during the time of the adventures to replay them, or at least give us a way to know what happened.
While delays can be bad, its better to release a good update late then a poor update on time. I like how rare is throwing us some events though to make up for the time
Sorry but SOT has gotten less content in the past 3 years than Overwatch has ......................... and that says more than anything else ........................
I do hope LeChuck is another force working against Flamheart rather than with him. I’ve been waiting for a big payoff for the tension between the Dark Brethren, Flamheart, and the Pirate Lord.
Love the video, and I totally agree, but please next time give a bigger or more noticeable spoiler warning! I'm on holiday and I was saving Monkey Island to play later. Still, great vid 👍
All I want is the burning blade as an actual playable weapon. Hopefully with some more cosmetic changes added to it so it's not the same as the sword of souls but red/orange.
I know it’s hard as gamers to find a happy balance between we want our content and being angry when developers release things too fast before they’re done or properly working. But I think rare sees the predicament they’re facing. If they don’t deliver on the next season it’s not going to do the game any favors. So them making the decision to delay it to me seems like they’re not going to just release something for the sake of releasing it.
Probably the event I’m hoping for has some cool cosmetics is legends week and I hope it has the golden legendary set because I’ve noticed not a lot of year one pirate legends play the game as often as they did I’ve only met/seen 3 in my 4 and a half years of sailing. Allowing us players new and old to get that exclusive reward would allow more of those lost to time cosmetics to return. I know some people will disagree but just like the obsidian items that are locked away having another opportunity to get a rare cosmetic is good. To the Legends 🍺
I sincerely thank Rare because I love Sea of Thieves! I am grateful to have things when they are ready and not before. That said every update has been adding more glitches and stability issues which are adding up. I understand Rare want to tell a story with adventures but it is undeniable now the focus on adventures is detracting from the overall experience and health of the base game. Please, rebalance your priorities.
im not complaining about a delay, or else i probably wouldnt have anough time to get lvl 100 on the season thing, and the PL reward there is well good.
It feels like this game is on a downward spiral. I’ve stopped playing a lot and tbh I’m really confused why people are celebrating getting no content. I get not wanting to get broken updates but it seems people who criticize rare on social media are hated on. The stuff they’re promising isn’t that interesting long term either.
This game only have a consistent issue in my opinion: it's not single player in the way should also be (see Deep Rock Galactic) and there are no RPG elements but only aesthetics elements. If Rare could add that (imagine your character with specific skills, your equipment along and your hull too) it would be the best sandbox adventure ever made, with or without friends. It could be also a positive response to all the rants about bad players around (they always will be, in any game) but preventing them to force their disturbance in the middle of a quest, it's vital. PS It's also time to be REALLY fed up with Xbox Live, PSN or similar stuff required to play.
A deep rock approach to this kind of game wouldnt work, new players would just quit as it would take hours to grind and they are already closing the skill gap down by removing harpoon boards and quickswap, your idea would enlarge the skill gap and make it unplayable for new players. Plus the last comment is just a console issue, it has always been pc master race
@@sitaroartworks If I'm completely honest, i would probably quit too, I do get fucked by way better players in hg wich is just normal in this game, but if hes better means he has been playing longer, which would make it shit in this scenario as I couldnt even do anything against a fully maxxed out crew although I am experienced, this would go so far in the opposite direction rare is foing rn that this should be its own game if they were to try something like that, and sot has no matchmaking which would make this even harder than it already is
it’s almost guaranteed that if season 11 features are merged into season 10, season 10 has to be full of long lasting content or else we’ll be seeing another drought similar to our current season.
Id say do what Deep Rock Galactic does. They have seasons, but they always last however long it takes the devs to make the next season of content. Keeps Big daddy microsoft happy and they olayer base not annoyed with a false timer
I did like season 8 but it was pvp so I didn’t love it. Season 9 was a quality of life update which wasn’t enough. For me 2021 was the best year for sea of thieves and 2023 has been such a underwhelming year for sea of thieves.
Hmm, dismal sells, dwindling player activity, content delayed by months, community suggesting that the Dev's get rid of most of what is in the game because they feel it's unnecessary. Why does this remind me of RDO in its last year before Rockstar completely dropped it in favor of bigger and better things?
But with rdr it was clear from the beginning, although they had a seperate way for real money currency than gta, this backfired heavily and people have thousands of goldbars lying around instead of having to pay for them, with rockstar its just about the money, besides red dead being the second best selling game in the us they still kept their favourite child on top and are still milking that shit
@@lordraven1991 Not really, you cant really farm ancient coins in thousands as you can with gold bars, and gold bars are a way better monetization as you can use them for everything even things that give you a gameplay advantage such as better guns etc, as where sot is based on skins and is nothing more than skins
@@FunnyFreak_ True, but with everything in RDO being priced at 5+ gold bars for something like underwear, it drives players to want to buy gold packs rather than play months to get a single piece of clothing, or a metal stain for a single part of a 6-part gun. And depending on your own playstyle, each gun can be the best. I have destroyed players while using the bow, and then using the fabled carbine repeater. Or out sniped a Carcano user, with the Springfield single shot. Translate this into SoT with it being a "PVP only" game, players can't really get the commendation locked clothing all that easily. I've had the game for over 3 years now and haven't been able to set foot once on the shores of gold, let alone any other major event in the game. I'm guilty of the ultimate and unforgivable sin of being chill on account of my IRL life being pretty fu(king terrible, I don't care who has the biggest d!ck in a game where your greatest sign of achievement is the clothes you've unlocked because you literally have nothing else to do in your real life. You have the exclusive clothing and furniture from before the game even came out up until now? Glad to hear that you are so proud to proclaim that you haven't done anything actually noteworthy in your life for over five years. The emporium is so players can have questionably cool clothing options without having to actually do anything in game to get them, making it finally something that everyone can have access to that can't be blocked by literally everyone that plays this game religiously, for a living, to have some sense of power over others for the first time in their lives, to just be a d!ck, to get off on the misery they cause others, or any other type of person that seems to be hardwired to know one thing and one thing only, "If you're not killing everyone in sight, then you aren't playing the game right. Only stealing others loot is the game, because they put thieves in the name." So, of course everyone that plays SoT for the PVP hates the idea of the emporium because they can't stand in the way of others getting things they like. And yes, you can't "farm" ancient coins like you can gold nuggets in RDO, but all you have to do is buy a single pass and you can earn enough from that to buy some stuff and then buy the next one for free with the left-over coins. Which explains why everything keeps getting delayed for longer and longer periods, Rare isn't making money from SoT anymore. At least not enough to warrant them breaking their backs for the extremely hostile community that only ever thinks of themselves, and excel at driving new players away before they even buy the game. The reputation this game has isn't a good one, and now it's starting to come back around and hit the devs where it hurts, their pockets.
Just go back to the monthly update layout. Then a bad update will only be for a month and good ones will come often. Season pass rewards have been a joke.(the paid rewards the free stuff is good)
Kinda sucks to see, but I haven’t had the chance to get on much anyways so I’m not too upset. I think people need to find something to do other than Sea of Thieves in the meantime 😂
Just a disclaimer, wanted to make it clear it's ok to be annoyed at this, didn't want to come across as me discounting the concerns!
100% agree here. Get rid of the seasonal update cadence and deadlines will never be broken because they cannot be. Year 1 was brilliant. They released updates WHEN they were ready. Not by a certain date. They create dates which content is mean't to be released at, get rid of em! Delays aside, can't wait for the rest of the Legend of Monkey Island. Really hoping for some big story moments! 🤞
Seasons wouldn’t be an issue if they gave themselves realistic timelines to work with. This comes off as incompetence on their part. This is a 3 MONTH delay. This is not a “we’re just running a little behind” scenario.
The merge of season 10 and 11 also makes me think they were unprepared. Did they not have plans for season 10 to have enough content?
I love you ghost admiral I almost imploded when I saw your comment
@@Nicholasromanacci1?
Still, we were season-sized updates every other month. What has been going on at Rare since s7…
I did everything possible in monkey island the 1rst day it came out and yes I have completed every other tall tale I’ve been playing since update 1 and also bayta version the devs allowed me to play some bayta version before it came out but only for like a hour but I kept all my stuff
When I watched the announcement video, all I was thinking was "People are gonna be maaaad", but it's been a nice surprise to have only really seen positive reactions
Honestly sort of pissed I missed out on the Adventures that tie into Monkey Island, making the reveal feel moot and pointless. As a returning player from when this game launched with fuck all to do, I'm extremely disappointed with how the story's been handled, where if I want to catch up on everything, I have to watch TH-cam instead of playing content. What's this game been doing the past 6+ years?!? Why is the story of the game tied to FOMO?!?! This is bullshit!
I've been returning to the game multiple times, but this was one of the worst updates as I have never done a single adventure, so I was playing 2 hours of content with the most confusing 5 minutes of my life, and I only found out that the adventures are part of the main story with this video
What worries me is that in the videos they don't seem all that excited about S10. I understand that while you are breaking sad news you would be solemn but when talking about season 10 there is no smirks, no smiles, no excitement. They have been very excited about Monkey Island. They love that this other IP is being weaved into SoT. So there being seemingly no joy about S10 makes me worried that it is going to be lackluster (besides being tardy).
Or, it’s likely what I think it is. Guilds, if it’s guilds it would be very difficult to do properly, and assuming the issues of making it work aren’t going well, I can see why they would be disappointed looking. It’s like planning this major event only for reality to set in that it isn’t as easy to set up as they thought.
Something really bad must've happened if they were a week off and needed to delay it by an additional 2 months. On one hand I'm glad but its still gonna launch with numerous issues anyways.
They are finding it very difficult to go forward in the game with new content. The xbox one is keeping them from moving forward. A large percentage of players play on this platform still. its over 10 years old and then need to stop. the newest console is now 3 years old. they just need to turn off old support but they wont because they like the login numbers.
@@14mattomattoI doubt it
Insiders playthrough of the new content found very bad glitches
@@14mattomatto On one hand I agree the old console holds the game back on the other hand support for the XBONE is not adding permanent glitches/stability issues to SeriesX and PC. Every update of new content SOT becomes more janky. Same audio/video glitches have been occurring for years. For how long are we going to load in dead at events? Crashing becoming more common and last season added a new type of freezing where you MUST close the game.
To me its an indicator of mismanagement of some kind. It's not "oh we're sorry guys we need an extra week or two to squash some bugs" its two and a half months, plus the delay from earlier in the season (which was at least two weeks, if not longer?) and you have them 3 whole months behind schedule (perhaps longer).
This isn't a brand new game on a brand new engine, this is something that's been out and tinkered with for a while. One would assume they know what they're doing with it now, which leads me to conclude that something must be seriously wrong with how they develop things for them to be a quarter of a year behind where they're supposed to be. I would expect them to be able to make most of an update in that time, let alone the roughly 7+ months it will have been by the time we get the update.
I love this game and I respect the work that goes into it, but that doesn't prevent me from sharing my conclusion that there has to be something going on, you just don't delay for this long in such a content drought when your players are more upset that they've ever been with the state of the game.
Maybe this will be the moment they decide to go back to the old way of doing updates and release the cosmetics pass separate from the content. Then it would be a great moment
I really enjoyed the SURPRISE element of the big updates, made the news updates exciting too.
I agree with the delay. Season 10 will be either the final dawn of sea of theives or a new horizon. They will need time to make a massive update, well hopefully a massive update.
its hardly seasonal at this point...
even though I'd rather a functioning season with delays rather than something rushed, its still unacceptable for a season to last 7 months from one of xboxs headline games
Xbox are mismanaging most of their studios and headline IPs.
I have heard this for years about this game. You have said it before.
The devs never come through. No matter how much time they get.
Maybe season 10 was the friends we made along the way.
"You forget a thousand things everyday make sure season 10 of SOT is one of them" Michael from GTA V
Even gta 5 has better content over the span of 10 years...
i fucking love sea of thieves but i cant be arsed to mindless kill enemies again again and again no risk or reward
dear pirate looooord longest season of my goddamn liiiiiife.
hate what seasons and adventures have done to the game :p
So putting my conspiracy theory hat on, I believe they have been damaged control since the mystery. I believe they knew they couldn't finish season 10 in times so they rushed monkey island and change the mystery to give the community more things too play with. It's interesting that monkey island ends 1 month before season 10 update and we get the delay a week after monkey island.
First! I am disappointed but I’m also very hopeful. At least we have a humble team that was willing to share the news with us
Bro one cares if you were first like no one
They did have to tell us to be fair 😅
Can’t wait to see everyone’s disappointment when it finally launch. Also, seasons used to work until time-limited sailing around the map adventures came in.
Oh boy tell me about it
I can appreciate creators at Rare want to tell a story but it's now undeniable focus on adventures are taking away from health of the game. Every update/time-limited adventure comes with permanent bugs/glitches which never seem to be fixed.
YES! We need to get rid of seasons all together, if they cannot commit to it they shouldn't brand their game to look like it has 4 updates a year.
they should of focused on season 10 instead of doing monkey island first
As much as I like them moving the plot forwards, I think they're really spreading themselves thin churning out limited time adventures all the time and it's showing
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despite the delay, despite the fucke-y mechanics, i will NOT abandon the seas. I love this game, so, so much.
I'm with you
@@BlackReaperMetal Thank you, fellow scallywag! My crew be behind me as well!
They used to do a 3-month update schedule and couldn't keep to that. Then somehow they tried to do smaller monthly updates and definitely failed at that. Then they finally tried a season pass system on a set schedule. I knew then that they'd regularly fail at it. Rare should be trying to do small regular updates with just cosmetics, and occasionally putting out large actual-change updates whenever they're actually able. I also would pay a hefty sum for a no-progress player-side server system where I can play through all the old updates. Have access to previous locations, characters, and adventures.
The community as a whole is pretty patient, but this is getting ridiculous
I agree rare should get rid of seasons lot of them just don’t feel like actual content updates. Seasons 1, 3, 7, 8 are about the only ones I can remember actual content and it being fun or new I would count season 9 for monkey island but season 9 as a whole just isn’t all that good of a season.
And besides that monkey island is seperate from season 9, the only content we got was literally 1 chest and sell it 30 times, I'm sure moving it takes some effort do develop but they havent even done that, which was a big feature of the update, in all this time
Yeah, it's kind of noticeable how the sot updates have been slowing down, hope Rare gets themselves together.
I haven’t agreed with any of the seasonal scrapping ideas before as I personally really enjoy grinding Plunder Pass’, but making them permanent and just coupling them with disparately timed large drops would be fantastic
Thanks for the video, it's kind of how I feel about the game over the past year or so. I hope whatever is going on internally at Rare gets resolved, a little more transparency would be nice.
I will admit, the seasonal update schedule we have now is bad for some projects like what we will be getting in season 10. However I still do appreciate the seasons since they allow the devs to add new cosmetic content to earn along with currency.
Overall the seasons have their benefits but they don’t fit well with releasing new content like tall tales or things like world events
It’s the season that never ends, it just goes on and on my friends! 🎶
lol were in a loop now.
as falcore has said before in his latest vid i think that there should be a dark brethren faction idk what it would do but it would be cool
I think personally rare should go with the same season system that new halo did, pick one out of all and thats what you level up, it would be nice if we could buy and switch between all of them
I see this as mostly positive, we still have the other two monkey island quests to look forward too and a massive update now in October with them combining season 10 and 11
what if you dont care about monkey island
@@imrango6543then that sucks
Is it actually confirmed that season 10 and 11 come as one?
@@thatdude1435 It will have some "Features it was not originally planned to have", not a total combination, but very possible that some of 11 will bleed over
@@awsomer76 smells like a version 10.1 ;)
I didnt quite understand so there wont be tall tales like shores of gold but adventures? So limited time only?
I think Monkey island and events like G&G will bring players back for a day or two, but honestly this situation is just PERFECT proof that sot needs permanent season passes, longer season passes and infinite gold and doubloon tiers. Weekly trials should get a revamp too, having some sort of weekly counter to complete content introduced in the season that rewards you with gold and doubloons or possibly even a trinket at the end of the month. Small changes like this could draw out the initial season hype longer and give players a reason to carry on grinding or completing seasonal content without feeling like it’s pointless.
Rare has ruined the game, sad to see it. Flying keg men are everywhere, can’t run hourglass fights because of it. Adventure has nothing new in years, they’ve just mashed the PVE together in different ways like the FOF, the players are board and even the dedicated are leaving.
Is it good that they are waiting to make sure things "work", as well as new Rare game features can? Yes, of course. But the fact that it's been delayed a few times now and they are just now really acknowledging it baffles me. Not to mention that someone like a development or project lead should have prepared and known there would be a delay based on where they were at months ago. And probably did. But again, there was no communication to the players. There was no, "We're sorry, but it may take an extra few weeks or a month to work out the kinks." It's three months.
Just when players thought we were going to get something new, outside of an alright but not all that replayable tall tale, we get the news that it will be another three months before we see any real meaningful changes to the game again. Remember, there has been one adventure this year, one yearly anniversary event, and a four week mystery hunt that was almost entirely online and out of game. The last time we had any real meaningful changes to the game happened in March. It will be the end of October before we get whatever may come next. If you don't include world event rebalancing, mostly meant for smaller crews, the last real shakeup would have been nearly a year before the next season releases. Let that sink in for a moment.
Yes, it's good that they are delaying it to HOPEFULLY make a more enjoyable and stable launch experience. But this should have been realized and communicated before it was delayed several times and we are at the door of the new season releasing. I feel like they spent more time and energy focusing on their social medias being boosted for a month than they have promoting any in game content the past seven months, outside of the endless emporium. Players have every right to be outright annoyed at this point. If Season 10 isn't a true shakeup and gives reason for many veteran players to return and play consistently again, this game is going to be in even harder times going forward.
5:40
I mean, it's one of the Ashen Gems, Flameheart uses them to corrupt pirates into becoming his minions. They grant you power while you have them infused in your body, but they erode at your mind, causing you to want more of them. Once you have too many, depending on how strong of a pirate you are, you can become anything from a peon to a full blown Ashen Lord.
Source, the Sea of Thieves RPG, Book of Voyages.
I have a feeling LeChuk is slowly being corrupted by Flameheart, and it'll turn into a big fight with changing Boss Theme.
Honestly this actually will help the season 10 and monkey island stuff as they aren’t fighting eachother for attention and one thing I hope is added is that there is some customizable ship expansion that uses majic to have a new area open where captaincy stuff can be more used mainly on the sloop then we can get to customize our ship with furniture and the area can disappear and close if you are at shallow water or in a fight and it’s not a load area also I won’t be surprised if the Xbox one will be dropped for support as well I’ve used one for nearly a year and it was so laggy and now with the series X it’s drastic with the difference so maybe the lower hardware might make it harder
Cries in insider
True king because we all know that monkey island will tie us up to a decade for sure...
@@xcountdownx5220 dude there’s a tall tale each month it actually means that in October which is when the tall talles are over if would be time for season 10
Look at the release dates of the MI tall tales. Look at the new projected release date of Season 10. Coincidence? Perhaps. Or perhaps it's Disney pulling the strings. Disney is about Disney and Disney alone. Understandably they would want their product (MI) to be put into the spotlight for both the SoT community and the gaming world at large. Why would they want to share that stage? Why would Disney want Rare to place its focus on something other than its own product while said product is being rolled out? The moment Rare inked the deal with Disney, the direction of the game was fundamentally changed: That is, what's taken place since a handful of months prior to the A Pirate's Life launch, its current state, and what will in all likelihood continue to happen, is the logical outcome of getting into bed with a corportate entity such as Disney. If you believe that somehow the trajectory will magically change on 10/19, I'm not sure what to say. I do hope that I am wrong, about all of it. I love this game, it's community, and Rare's passion. But it's my contention that they're no longer actually in control of things, and haven't been for some time now. Again, I hope I'm wrong. Let me be clear here and state that I'm not saying Rare is lying about wanting to make sure Season 10 is fully functionable at launch; I believe them. But both things can be true, and yet not entirely the case at the same time: semantics.
I didnt even think about that, but this actually sounds plausible given what already happend and what just happened a few days ago
Honestly the updates that take the longest are system updates. Remember how Season 7 took super long and the only thing it added was new commendations and the ability to name your ship? And then Season 8 came right on time and it added an elaborate PVP mode with like dozens of new cosmetics including like four new curses?
Thats why they should scrap system updates after s10 and just focus on new content
They said weeks ago the next adventure would be replayable so from 12 on every playable
Suppose it'll be a longer wait but as with alot of other people i'd prefer them to release it when its done and ready rather than throw it out by their promise date and bug fix it for 3 months.
As for monkey island, as "short" as the first one was for me (about 3-4 hours) i still enjoyed it alot and look forward to the other parts! i also think it'd be quite the entrance too for flameheart if he appeared in the final one, maybe to take the sword now that its in a place he can get it easier and away from the Pirate Lord.
For fun, going off ashinyrays idea of Flameheart making an appearance at the end- imagine if at the end of fighting Lechuck, rather than him being done by your own hands.. a decent sized group of reaper dressed skeletons barge in. They surround the area to prevent anyone from leaving and also start to make a path in front of LeChuck, seemingly for someone to walk through when suddenly Flameheart steps in behind the last skeleton, maybe that last skeleton is the voice of the flame or Flameheart Jr. Flameheart is seen to be in full form and walks up to LeChuck, takes his sword, and finishing Lechuck right then and there without mercy before saying something to you. Perhaps revealing he manipulated Lechuck in order to get it out to an easier location to retrieve it or maybe it was a convenient moment where LeChuck didnt really know what he had, just knew it was a powerful artifact, and that it ended up sealing his own fate.
I don't think seasons in a live service sandbox game like Sea of Thieves is a bad idea at all, in theory. The problem is that the launch of a new season rarely actually does anything to affect players' gameplay loop. Sometimes there's 1 new voyage and it's either the best available and you spam it until you never wanna do it again, or it's undertuned from release and completely pointless. The plunder pass is completed in 2-3 decent sessions even for kinda semi-casual players. The rest of the game is filled with commendations and milestones that seem forced in just to give players more "fill the bar" stuff. It's all hollow. The main attraction of every season trailer is the Pirate Emporium and not because Rare wants to be pushy with their marketing, there just isn't anything else really new most of the time. I've been playing Sea of Thieves since way before seasons were a thing and, in my opinion, the Hourglass PVP system and the PVE event scaling system have had the biggest real effects on how the game can be played, nothing else even comes close in my opinion. Remember when they tried to hype up the release of stools and being able to sit on objects? That should be enough said right there... We need more NEW content that goes along and synchronizes well with the content that is already in the game before, not move on to the new 1 voyage that you do because the others give you way less rewards. When was the last time people farming Athena rep had actual options? It's either been the latest voyage or the FoF, everything else is a waste of time even considering doing if you want to farm reputation. It's the same with the gold values attached to treasure items and gold costs for things you can buy for your ship or character. It just doesn't matter enough and new things aren't coming out regularly enough. The fact that the playerbase seems filled to the brim with people who refuse to wrap their head around the concept of PVPVE, probably isn't much help either. If they try to release PVP and PVE oriented content simultaneously, that have some sort of connection to one another, entitled snowflakes throw tantrums.
If season 10 fails, there are dark times ahead for the sea of thieves. Flameheart may as well be cackling with glee if that day should arrive…
It will, my friend has insider and he said it’s the worst season so far and it only adds on new big social feature for big groups
@@PilgrimetroThey have said we are getting Season 11’s big feature in Season 10 to make up for the delay, which in their podcast they have described as something to bring players together in a way similar to the Chest of Fortune.
@@TomIsQuestionableYou talking about the chest that should switch places? I mean that worked great so far💀
Disappointed in rare for focusing on emporium and plunder pass content instead of the actual updates. Seasons need to go. If they can’t logistically handle releasing updates on time they need to stop setting expectations for us. Also, if they’re focused on adventures, they need to allow people who are too busy during the time of the adventures to replay them, or at least give us a way to know what happened.
I just hope season 10 is worth it
If it’s going to be bad i actually might stop playing
better be worth it because honestly i might just stop playing if it just sucks
@@aperson6307 same man
I heard that it’s guilds from an insider but I don’t really know or trust
While delays can be bad, its better to release a good update late then a poor update on time. I like how rare is throwing us some events though to make up for the time
Nah I’m kinda tired of rares constant failures at this point it has to be amazing and that’s that
Great vid but I am sad about how long season 9 is but like you said better to have a working season then buggy glitchy season.
have any of the seasons worked properly?
@@bushwickbillOGbasically all of them aside from 7
@@AShinyRayConsidering that hitreg should have been fixed every season, as the patchnotes state, they all havent been working properly
im fucking bored dude
i just want the old bonecrusher ship set back, because of a bug and such i did not get the ship set back then after grinding for it almost 24/7 😣
Do we have a date for the next double xp double gold?
This weekend
Sorry but SOT has gotten less content in the past 3 years than Overwatch has ......................... and that says more than anything else ........................
I think it would be awesome if Flameheart were the one to give us the last Monkey island quest: GET RID OF LECHUCK
I do hope LeChuck is another force working against Flamheart rather than with him. I’ve been waiting for a big payoff for the tension between the Dark Brethren, Flamheart, and the Pirate Lord.
Love the video, and I totally agree, but please next time give a bigger or more noticeable spoiler warning! I'm on holiday and I was saving Monkey Island to play later. Still, great vid 👍
delays will be repeated again though.
Great we got to wait more for new stuff 😐
I've been playing for less than a month and you can see the potential of this game and how the devs have 0 idea what to do with it
All I want is the burning blade as an actual playable weapon. Hopefully with some more cosmetic changes added to it so it's not the same as the sword of souls but red/orange.
@@hoplul I'm hoping to avoid that. Lechuck mentioned the blade was incomplete so I'm hoping it gains some cosmetic differences
I know it’s hard as gamers to find a happy balance between we want our content and being angry when developers release things too fast before they’re done or properly working. But I think rare sees the predicament they’re facing. If they don’t deliver on the next season it’s not going to do the game any favors. So them making the decision to delay it to me seems like they’re not going to just release something for the sake of releasing it.
Probably the event I’m hoping for has some cool cosmetics is legends week and I hope it has the golden legendary set because I’ve noticed not a lot of year one pirate legends play the game as often as they did I’ve only met/seen 3 in my 4 and a half years of sailing. Allowing us players new and old to get that exclusive reward would allow more of those lost to time cosmetics to return. I know some people will disagree but just like the obsidian items that are locked away having another opportunity to get a rare cosmetic is good. To the Legends 🍺
The decline of SoT continues.
This could be a final blow for the game
It's possible
I sincerely thank Rare because I love Sea of Thieves! I am grateful to have things when they are ready and not before. That said every update has been adding more glitches and stability issues which are adding up. I understand Rare want to tell a story with adventures but it is undeniable now the focus on adventures is detracting from the overall experience and health of the base game. Please, rebalance your priorities.
im not complaining about a delay, or else i probably wouldnt have anough time to get lvl 100 on the season thing, and the PL reward there is well good.
Just a quick reminder that LeChuck has been a Flaming Undead before so I would not see it past that he becomes again.
It feels like this game is on a downward spiral. I’ve stopped playing a lot and tbh I’m really confused why people are celebrating getting no content. I get not wanting to get broken updates but it seems people who criticize rare on social media are hated on. The stuff they’re promising isn’t that interesting long term either.
Before I clicked on the video I already knew Rare was making some dumb moves.
This game only have a consistent issue in my opinion: it's not single player in the way should also be (see Deep Rock Galactic) and there are no RPG elements but only aesthetics elements. If Rare could add that (imagine your character with specific skills, your equipment along and your hull too) it would be the best sandbox adventure ever made, with or without friends. It could be also a positive response to all the rants about bad players around (they always will be, in any game) but preventing them to force their disturbance in the middle of a quest, it's vital.
PS It's also time to be REALLY fed up with Xbox Live, PSN or similar stuff required to play.
A deep rock approach to this kind of game wouldnt work, new players would just quit as it would take hours to grind and they are already closing the skill gap down by removing harpoon boards and quickswap, your idea would enlarge the skill gap and make it unplayable for new players. Plus the last comment is just a console issue, it has always been pc master race
@@FunnyFreak_ probably the sociopathic will quit, the ones who love to team up will boost their experience.
@@sitaroartworks If I'm completely honest, i would probably quit too, I do get fucked by way better players in hg wich is just normal in this game, but if hes better means he has been playing longer, which would make it shit in this scenario as I couldnt even do anything against a fully maxxed out crew although I am experienced, this would go so far in the opposite direction rare is foing rn that this should be its own game if they were to try something like that, and sot has no matchmaking which would make this even harder than it already is
it’s almost guaranteed that if season 11 features are merged into season 10, season 10 has to be full of long lasting content or else we’ll be seeing another drought similar to our current season.
S10 is like S7 just so u know
I am happy it's been delayed been busy all summer and I will finally have some time to grind out my plunder pass
Id say do what Deep Rock Galactic does. They have seasons, but they always last however long it takes the devs to make the next season of content. Keeps Big daddy microsoft happy and they olayer base not annoyed with a false timer
And all of the past seasonal content can still be aquired by playing the game, never have I seen a game doing everything right like drg
5:35, I thought Flameheart was still alive, the reapers won the return of the damned. How is he still in the sea of the damned?
I just instantly cracked up when he said lying little shit to the thing that doesn't so constantly.
I did like season 8 but it was pvp so I didn’t love it. Season 9 was a quality of life update which wasn’t enough. For me 2021 was the best year for sea of thieves and 2023 has been such a underwhelming year for sea of thieves.
Only thing I would like to know is when can we get briggsy jacket for ourselves
If season 10 flops the game will to rare must really suck at coding or need new employees or both
Hmm, dismal sells, dwindling player activity, content delayed by months, community suggesting that the Dev's get rid of most of what is in the game because they feel it's unnecessary. Why does this remind me of RDO in its last year before Rockstar completely dropped it in favor of bigger and better things?
But with rdr it was clear from the beginning, although they had a seperate way for real money currency than gta, this backfired heavily and people have thousands of goldbars lying around instead of having to pay for them, with rockstar its just about the money, besides red dead being the second best selling game in the us they still kept their favourite child on top and are still milking that shit
@@FunnyFreak_ Yeah, and everyone is treating the micro transactions in SoT the same way.
@@lordraven1991 Not really, you cant really farm ancient coins in thousands as you can with gold bars, and gold bars are a way better monetization as you can use them for everything even things that give you a gameplay advantage such as better guns etc, as where sot is based on skins and is nothing more than skins
@@FunnyFreak_ True, but with everything in RDO being priced at 5+ gold bars for something like underwear, it drives players to want to buy gold packs rather than play months to get a single piece of clothing, or a metal stain for a single part of a 6-part gun. And depending on your own playstyle, each gun can be the best. I have destroyed players while using the bow, and then using the fabled carbine repeater. Or out sniped a Carcano user, with the Springfield single shot.
Translate this into SoT with it being a "PVP only" game, players can't really get the commendation locked clothing all that easily. I've had the game for over 3 years now and haven't been able to set foot once on the shores of gold, let alone any other major event in the game. I'm guilty of the ultimate and unforgivable sin of being chill on account of my IRL life being pretty fu(king terrible, I don't care who has the biggest d!ck in a game where your greatest sign of achievement is the clothes you've unlocked because you literally have nothing else to do in your real life. You have the exclusive clothing and furniture from before the game even came out up until now? Glad to hear that you are so proud to proclaim that you haven't done anything actually noteworthy in your life for over five years.
The emporium is so players can have questionably cool clothing options without having to actually do anything in game to get them, making it finally something that everyone can have access to that can't be blocked by literally everyone that plays this game religiously, for a living, to have some sense of power over others for the first time in their lives, to just be a d!ck, to get off on the misery they cause others, or any other type of person that seems to be hardwired to know one thing and one thing only, "If you're not killing everyone in sight, then you aren't playing the game right. Only stealing others loot is the game, because they put thieves in the name." So, of course everyone that plays SoT for the PVP hates the idea of the emporium because they can't stand in the way of others getting things they like.
And yes, you can't "farm" ancient coins like you can gold nuggets in RDO, but all you have to do is buy a single pass and you can earn enough from that to buy some stuff and then buy the next one for free with the left-over coins. Which explains why everything keeps getting delayed for longer and longer periods, Rare isn't making money from SoT anymore. At least not enough to warrant them breaking their backs for the extremely hostile community that only ever thinks of themselves, and excel at driving new players away before they even buy the game. The reputation this game has isn't a good one, and now it's starting to come back around and hit the devs where it hurts, their pockets.
Drop seasons in gaming all together. Im tired of buying 60$ games only to have to spend 10$ every month just so i could have the complete product
Why can't we play right now then
they already confirmed all future adventures will be replayable actually
My theory is we will destroy the sword of souls and flameheart's remaining essence will be realeased bringing him back
I Cant wait to season 10 GUILDS 💀
Just go back to the monthly update layout. Then a bad update will only be for a month and good ones will come often. Season pass rewards have been a joke.(the paid rewards the free stuff is good)
i spy a wild Captain Blubber 3:40
I do think that Le Chuck and Flameheart are working together but they're both probably planning on betraying the other
LeChuck probably thinks he can double cross him. Flameheart simply doesn’t care.
All it means to me is just that I have a bit of extra time to finish up the battle pass :)
I'm still waiting for the next chapter of the monkey island tall tale
crossovers are the only thing that'll keep the game ALIVE!
i thought it was just a bug for me looks like not (10 weeks are crazy tho)
bro october that crazy ngl
I hope Flameheart and Lechuck dont....you know...Fuse souls.
The delay just means I have more time to play Baldur's Gate 3
Now I already suspected the rat was Le Chuck, but still.. Adventure hasn't been out that long, so thanks for that .5 second spoiler alert.
Hopefully all the events they have mean I finally can get my ghost curse...
Community weekends and Golden Glory
Idk why y’all hate time limited rewards, if you didn’t get the item to bad so sad
Kinda sucks to see, but I haven’t had the chance to get on much anyways so I’m not too upset. I think people need to find something to do other than Sea of Thieves in the meantime 😂
Lu chuck 1v1 agaisnt flame heart at the end of the tall tail would be cool were flame heart arives being pissed about lu chucks plans
Next big choice, help lechuck or flameheart.