Sea of Thieves | The EMPORIUM CONSPIRACY! 

? They won’t support a live game for so long for no reason. You’re not obligated to purchase anything. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

@@OneMor3Win Bro does not understand that the emporium has gotten out of hand and is being prioritized over making new content or fixing their broken ass game. Maybe if the game was great since launch they could rely only on sales, but instead they delivered an under-baked, glitchy mess that, while (mostly) amended, still tarnishes their reputation to this day.

@@Dexthedoge As a developer of a live service game I can assure you. Not even 10% of their development costs are being spent on the emporium. Due to its simplistic nature in reskins, they’re highly likely to be 1-2 years ahead of their release cadence anyways. The quarterly income is what justifies continued development support in business, not the initial game sales. There has to be a continuous streaming quality ROI to justify a quality live team. Also, things continually break as you add features, that’s the nature of development. Clearly the best engineers most- familiar with the code have been shifted onto bigger projects. I agree some of their most longest lasting bugs should have been fixed by now, assuming they’ve allowed young inexperienced 20-30 year old freshies handle engineering, I’m guessing they’ve “fixed” things in the past that lead to unforeseen issues, and now leadership and production do not trust engineering to move at too fast of a pace, and they require more QA checks before hot fixing anything. They’re avoiding adjusting features and systems as it’s probably sensitive. Which explains the extremely slow responses to any emergency hotfixes for basic issues, and why often there are work around for patches. Keep in mind developers are working on active new features which take months to develop, whilst also occasionally doing bug fixes in between depending on the urgency. The emporium has no negative effects on the quality of the development team, its success only improves everything. But I assure you, if the emporium wasn’t doing well enough, this game would have stopped receiving live updates years ago. Be thankful it’s there if you care to still play this ‘glitchy mess.’

@@Dexthedoge As a developer of a live service game I can assure you. Not even 10% of their development costs are being spent on the emporium. Due to its simplistic nature in reskins, they’re highly likely to be 1-2 years ahead of their release cadence anyways. The quarterly income is what justifies continued development support in business, not the initial game sales. There has to be a continuous streaming quality ROI to justify a quality live team. Also, things continually break as you add features, that’s the nature of development. Clearly the best engineers most- familiar with the code have been shifted onto bigger projects. I agree some of their longest lasting bugs should have been fixed awhile ago, and without even looking at the code I have an idea what the causes are and the best way to fix it -but a lot of their fixes involve temporary hacks -> pointing to an inexperienced team… I assume they’ve allowed young inexperienced 20-30 year old “kids” to handle engineering.. this team has likely “fixed” many things in the past at once, that lead to unforeseen issues, and now leadership and production do not trust the engineering team to move at too fast of a pace, and they require more QA checks before hot fixing anything. They’re avoiding adjusting too many features and systems simultaneously as the code seems sensitive. Which explains the extremely slow responses to any emergency hotfixes for basic issues. Keep in mind developers are working on active new features which take months to develop, whilst also occasionally doing bug fixes in between depending on the urgency. That’s a production issue, they’ve classified bugs as low priority and haven’t reevaluated. There does seem to be a disconnect between the player experience and the teams priorities. But I can’t blame them for that. The emporium has no negative effects on the quality of the development team, its success only improves everything. But I assure you, if the emporium wasn’t doing well enough, this game would have stopped receiving live updates years ago. Be thankful it’s there if you care to still play this ‘glitchy mess.’

@@Dexthedoge As a developer of a live service game I can assure you. Not even 10% of their development costs are being spent on the emporium. Due to its simplistic nature in reskins, they’re highly likely to be 1-2 years ahead of their release cadence anyways. The quarterly income is what justifies continued development support in business, not the initial game sales. There has to be a continuous streaming quality ROI to justify a quality live team. Also, things continually break as you add features, that’s the nature of development. Clearly the best engineers most- familiar with the code have been shifted onto bigger projects. I agree some of their longest lasting bugs should have been fixed awhile ago, and without even looking at the code I have an idea what the causes are and the best way to fix it -but a lot of their fixes involve temporary hacks -> pointing to an inexperienced team… I assume they’ve allowed young inexperienced 20-30 year old “kids” to handle engineering.. this team has likely “fixed” many things in the past at once, that lead to unforeseen issues, and now leadership and production do not trust the engineering team to move at too fast of a pace, and they require more QA checks before hot fixing anything. They’re avoiding adjusting too many features and systems simultaneously as the code seems sensitive. Which explains the extremely slow responses to any emergency hotfixes for basic issues. Keep in mind developers are working on active new features which take months to develop, whilst also occasionally doing bug fixes in between depending on the urgency. That’s a production issue, they’ve classified bugs as low priority and haven’t reevaluated. There does seem to be a disconnect between the player experience and the teams priorities. But I can’t blame them for that. The emporium has no negative effects on the quality of the development team, its success only improves everything. But I assure you, if the emporium wasn’t doing well enough, this game would have stopped receiving live updates years ago. Be thankful it’s there if you care to still play this ‘glitchy mess.’

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@@GalacticEclipse501 we doin numbers arg

Ye dare mention that cowardice cur of a King mate? Well just for ye I'll hold me tongue about it all. But if ye heard of that..."king" certainly ye heard of a certain himbo o' the Sea O' Theives aye? The pirate who be sailin' the flag o' The Jade Dragon, ye heard o' them savvy?

@@GalacticEclipse501 Ye, I have heard of the Himbo and his guild fighting for freedom but I just told because that "King" is trying to take over the market and supplies will go up in money