For the record, that’s more than League of Legends, PUBG, and Dota 2. Rare’s open-world pirate adventure had a few technical hiccups, but otherwise found some significant success.Īccording to Inquisitr, Sea of Thieves raced to the top of the Twitch charts, with over 170,000 viewers watching streams of the game. Original story, January 25:Sea of Thieves entered its closed beta yesterday, and it didn’t take long before it started making waves. To help as many people access the game as possible, the post also confirms that the beta will run for an extra two days. According to Rare’s update “we have been working with our partners across Xbox to get this resolved.”Ī solution “began rolling out last night (UK time) and is unfortunately taking longer than anticipated to reach all affected players.” The team have set up a dedicated article on their support site to help with the issue. Some players who purchased digital pre-orders were receiving an error message saying they were “too early” to access the beta.
The Sea of Thieves community team tweeted to say they would be extending the beta, as well as posting a more detailed announcement.