Rare has announced a slight delay in the start of Sea of Thieves Season 7 to ensure quality and avoid crashes.
The announcement was made in a blog post (opens in a new tab) on the official Sea of thieves site. In a post, executive producer Joe Neat explains that the ambitious nature of the Season 7 update means “there’s a lot of hidden work to be done in the background” and that “a wide range of new statistics to track” has “required a complex partnership between our games, user interface and services teams to make it happen.”
“As we started to get closer to our originally stated release date,” Nite wrote in the post, “it became clear that things were running hotter than we wanted and there was a real risk of not delivering the quality and quality we expected, and also puts too much pressure on the team to finish.” As a result, the season release is pushed back to August 4.
Season 7’s original launch date was July 21st, so moving it to August 4th is just a few weeks away. Still, Neate admits in the post that Season 6 “was soooo exciting considering how it started in March of this year.
“We understand this will disappoint those of you who have been looking forward to this update,” he wrote, “and we appreciate your patience with this change.”
Neat concludes the post by saying that developing a live-action game like Sea of Thieves is “still a journey where we learn something new every day,” adding that “we believe the decision to move this release is absolutely right to provide the best experience for all of you, ensuring that we continue to operate with a healthy and sustainable approach.”
What will season 7 bring?
When it arrives, Sea of Thieves Season 7 should introduce some pretty big new gameplay features that have been around before tapping their toes, they teased (opens in a new tab) during the Xbox and Bethesda demo back in June.
The main feature is “Captainship”, which, as the name suggests, will allow you to become a full-fledged captain of your ship. That is, buy a vessel, name it and customize it to your liking. This is the first example of any permanent ship ownership system in the game.
August and Season 7 will also bring the next Adventure story game, A Hunter’s Cry, coming on August 18th. This will be the sixth Adventure game, but nothing has been announced about it yet – more details should be expected a little closer to the time.
Sea of Thieves is playable Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and players for PC. The game is also available on Xbox Game Pass.
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