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10. Future Sea Of Thieves Content

For the same reasons that Hello Games can attest to, Rare suffered some hefty blowback following Sea of Thieves' launch. The latter's absurdly overhyped spacefaring sim arrived, only to reveal a universe as wide as an ocean but only as deep as a puddle and that, combined with Sean Murray's poorly-worded pre-release interviews resulted in inevitable disappointment.

No Man's Sky is in a better place now than it was two years ago, able to somewhat put its money where its mouth is, and there's no reason why Rare can't do the same, especially as it has the financial backing of Microsoft.

Sea of Thieves isn't great, but it can be, as long as those holding the reigns commit the time and money necessary to help it get there. Rare has already affirmed since April that launch was just the beginning for its swashbuckling sandbox world - at least two expansions are on the way - but we need to see their content in action.

Sea of Thieves is bursting with potential: we only hope Rare can tap into it before the ship sinks.