Sea of Thieves celebrates 25 million players with gifts of gold and doubloons. Only one lucky player really clears it.
Would pirates play the lottery? Probably yes, after all, despite vanishingly small chances, a handsome fortune beckons. You can imagine a similar action by developer Rare to celebrate 25 million players, only that all participants automatically have five correct numbers. But only one takes home the jackpot!
The gift lottery works like this: Anyone who logs into Sea of Thieves between 19 and 26 October 2021 at 16:00 each day will automatically be credited with 25,000 gold and 25 doubloons. So far, so good. But: One lucky predator will be chosen from all players to receive the big jackpot of 25,000,000 gold!
25 million gold talers is a more than tidy sum on the seas of the game, for which you get cosmetic items and voyages, for example. Doubloons, on the other hand, are the premium currency that unlocks special skins and various goodies on the black market.
Today almost another game
Because the number of the hour for Sea of Thieves is 25, Rare also takes a look at the top 25 features the co-op pirate game has gotten since its March 2018 release in the accompanying blog post Sea of Thieves was initially released with only a small amount of content, but was greatly expanded by the developers in the aftermath.
For example, there are now Seasons in Sea of Thieves, which, true to the nature of a service game, provide you with new content on a regular basis. Most recently, sunken locations came into play in this way, expanding the gameplay from the surface of the water to the (treasure-rich) undersea. Here’s a trailer:
Other new content includes Vaults of the Ancients, hidden locations in the game world where resourceful pirates can solve puzzles and collect treasures. However, all too greedy thieves are threatened with a tragic fate, as the chambers close forever after a certain time – with or without a player in them!
If you get your wooden legs back into the fresh air in time, the numerous new trading companies now offer plenty of opportunities to spend your hard-earned pirate’s gold on fancy stuff. There are plenty of cosmetic items to embellish pirates, pets and weapons. So now all players have the necessary small change for a few purchases in their pockets.
