Sea of Thieves developer Rare has announced that it will be hosting its first ever Community Direct for the multiplayer pirate game. According to the studio, it will be using this Community Direct to discuss the future of Sea of Thieves, both in the short as well as long terms. This Community Direct is slated for later today at 3pm GMT, and will be available to watch through a livestream, which you can check out below.
“Join core crew members for the first ever Sea of Thieves Community Direct, where they’ll talk about upcoming Seasons, big Insider Programme changes and a much-requested feature that’s recently been ticking away in development,” wrote the studio in its announcement.
The announcement of this Community Direct comes hot on the heels of Microsoft having recently laid off more than 9,000 of its employees. Along with the lay-offs, several studios under the company also had to cancel many of their projects. Among those affected by this was Rare, which had previously been working on Everwild.
Considering all of the cancellations that have happened under Microsoft recently, Rare likely announced this Community Direct in an effort to ensure its fans that the fate of Sea of Thieves wasn’t tied up with the cancellation of Everwild.
Sea of Thieves was originally released on PC and Xbox One. It eventually made its way on to Xbox Series X/S, and last year, even came to PS5. With the PS5 release, the title started riding a new wave of popularity, becoming the number 2 best-seller in the US when it came out in Early Access on PS5, and even topping download charts.
For more details about the PS5 release of Sea of Thieves, check out our review.
