Introducing Sea of Thieves News! Episode 1: February 2020

@mr-dragon-raaar said in Introducing Sea of Thieves News! Episode 1: February 2020:

Hmm. Using streamers to do Rares job now.
Poor show.

well they love streamers now

Personally like the new format. I give it two thumbs up. Now let's raaagee.

Streamers/content creators are a valuable resource to promote and spread the content of the game. Why on Earth would anyone have an issue with using that resource? That would be like throwing take out in the garbage because it wasn't cooked on your stove. Wasting it.

The only thing I'm truly sad about is storms being less frequent. 😅🌩😭 Sometimes when I play, I'm a storm chaser and I actually seek them out and sail into them lol. I'll go into the middle of them and drop anchor and fish for Stormfish! I literally just did that for about an hour yesterday, just being a full blown storm chaser following them halfway around the map and sitting in them to fish lol. 🎣 My new goal is to fish in them until I get a Shadow, then I'll move on to whatever else I'm doing lol. I hope the storms still spawn fairly regularly. 🙇‍♀️👍🌨I caught this beauty yesterday:

Edit: Now it seems the part that said that storms will be less frequent has been removed? Does this mean that storm frequency is not changing? If so, yay! 🎉

@theunionjames Marketing like that has been around forever. You go to the fast food joint and you buy the kid meal and you get the theme toy. Food place gets customers and creator of toy gets promotion. Nothing slimy about it. Just marketing. Microsoft wants to promote mixer. Parent company goes hey Rare we would like you to promote mixer. If you watch their mixer channel you get a cosmetic. Promotions are all over the place.

@spiralout46and2

Pretty sure it means lightning strikes are going to be less frequent within the storm, the storm will still be roaming around as always.

They created a video and included a portion made by a content creator. So i fail to see how they used a streamer to create the video they themselves filmed and put out?

Personally I like content creation and some streamers. It adds depth and point of discussion for the game. It allows community members to interact with each other. Share ideas, learn new things, and it allows people to get interested in the game. If I want to check out a new game then I will go look up the content for it. Let's me check it out and see if I'm really interested. But mostly it allows people to be engaged in the community which is the best part. The forums can be great for that as well but when you slog through post after post of everyone complaining 24/7 it gets tiresome. It's more fun to enjoy the content and the community at the same time.

@spiralout46and2 I don't think they said less storms. Just less lightning while in storms. Or less likelihood of getting hit by one anyways.

Overall I like the new format some. Though having Joe stumble over doing the whole thing himself was sometimes quite funny and enjoyable. So with the new format, we get less of that. Not sure how I feel about having the content creators/streamers be the focal point for the spotlight section. Though I will give props to Falcore as that was a pretty funny vid, though I did not see much in the way of new information.

I guess, I would rather see them do spotlights on the people that are just as committed to the game, but not necessarily already in the spotlight. I mean, streamers already get recognition, why not spread the love to others in the community that contribute in other ways?

Thank you so so so so much for the lightning strikes. It was cool to finally finish the Party Boat achievement, but getting killed 400 times in a storm when not holding a sword was getting super old, super fast. Haha.

@excitedcaius LOL, as I am waiting for my crews "we were first to survive a mega keg(before they got nerfed) without sinking, while in a kraken and getting attacked by two other players ships full of fort loot" legends of the sea entry. LOL

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Yes, thanks everyone 😊🤝 When I first read the thread, I saw in the highlights that it said storms will be less frequent. But now I see it's been edited to indicate that it's about the lightning strikes. Very happy about that! Cheers to all! 👍🌨🎣👏🥳

@mr-dragon-raaar said in Introducing Sea of Thieves News! Episode 1: February 2020:

Can you believe there are folk that actually think they have been a benefit!!

I've lost count of how many people I see comment on videos or in live streams asking where to get the game from. Or saying that they started playing the game after watching someone else stream it. I'd say that's a benefit.

A bigger audience and publicity is good publicity, irrespective of our own personal thoughts on content creators.

Good to see that old Neate still has a place in SoT's video content.

I must say I do like this new format of informing the community about current events!