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Celebrate Five Million Sea of Thieves Sales on Steam
Even as we finish celebrating the grand milestone of 25 million Sea of Thieves players, we’re already rolling out the barrel again as we surpass five million units sold on Steam! With Sea of Thieves being our first game developed in-house for PC as well as Xbox, we’re absolutely delighted to see such a huge influx of new pirates starting their adventures since the game made it to Steam in June last year. No matter which platform you play Sea of Thieves on, it would never have had this success without the support of you, the players – so all we can say is thank you!
We’re overjoyed to see more and more players – regardless of platform, device or where they are in the world – joining us on our pirate odyssey and making the Sea of Thieves an ever more vibrant place. On Steam alone, our thriving community now features over 10,000 discussions, thousands of people seeking others to sail with and close to 500 guides written by you, the players. We’re also especially pleased with the growth of spaces like our official Discord server, which is nearing 300,000 members! If you’re ever looking for fellow crewmates to sail with, lore specialists to muse on your theories or simply a place to hang out, these are welcoming spaces for pirates of all stripes.
As we’re never ones to shy away from a celebration, we’re marking this latest milestone of five million Steam sales with a special gift for the whole community over the next week. All you have to do is jump in and play Sea of Thieves at any time between December 22nd at 14:00 and December 29th at 23:59 (times in GMT), and you’ll receive the All Together Now! Emote for free. Great for keeping the band on beat when you’re out carolling!
If you’ve yet to take the plunge and join us on the seas, you’re in luck as we’re also part of the Steam Winter Sale – perfect for sailors looking to snag a festive bargain.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1172620/Sea_of_Thieves/
Whether you’re a console corsair or a Steamboat sailor, there’s plenty coming over the horizon for Sea of Thieves. To see what new features we’ve added to the game in the last 18 months, check out our celebratory Xbox Wire post listing off 25 new things to try. And for incoming updates, keep your spyglasses trained on our collection of social channels: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitch, TikTok and the official Forums and Discord server.
Another hearty thank you from all of us on the Sea of Thieves team for helping the game and its community reach this milestone, and we hope to see you on the seas soon!
We’re overjoyed to see more and more players – regardless of platform, device or where they are in the world – joining us on our pirate odyssey and making the Sea of Thieves an ever more vibrant place. On Steam alone, our thriving community now features over 10,000 discussions, thousands of people seeking others to sail with and close to 500 guides written by you, the players. We’re also especially pleased with the growth of spaces like our official Discord server, which is nearing 300,000 members! If you’re ever looking for fellow crewmates to sail with, lore specialists to muse on your theories or simply a place to hang out, these are welcoming spaces for pirates of all stripes.
As we’re never ones to shy away from a celebration, we’re marking this latest milestone of five million Steam sales with a special gift for the whole community over the next week. All you have to do is jump in and play Sea of Thieves at any time between December 22nd at 14:00 and December 29th at 23:59 (times in GMT), and you’ll receive the All Together Now! Emote for free. Great for keeping the band on beat when you’re out carolling!
If you’ve yet to take the plunge and join us on the seas, you’re in luck as we’re also part of the Steam Winter Sale – perfect for sailors looking to snag a festive bargain.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1172620/Sea_of_Thieves/
Whether you’re a console corsair or a Steamboat sailor, there’s plenty coming over the horizon for Sea of Thieves. To see what new features we’ve added to the game in the last 18 months, check out our celebratory Xbox Wire post listing off 25 new things to try. And for incoming updates, keep your spyglasses trained on our collection of social channels: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitch, TikTok and the official Forums and Discord server.
Another hearty thank you from all of us on the Sea of Thieves team for helping the game and its community reach this milestone, and we hope to see you on the seas soon!
Break New Ground in Sea of Thieves Season Five
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With the nights drawing in and the chill of winter fast approaching, Sea of Thieves offers a warm welcome to pirates old and new with the arrival of Season Five. With new Seasonal rewards, Events and a whole host of quality of life updates to deepen your pirate immersion, this Season also brings in pirate pyrotechnics and a long-requested game-changing feature: burying treasure! If you’re keen to dig into this and everything else Sea of Thieves has to offer, Season Five is now available as a free download for all players on Steam.
As with previous Seasons, Season Five and its 100 levels of rewards can be embarked upon free of charge by all Sea of Thieves players. To earn rewards, raise your Renown by sailing the seas and tackling regularly rotating Trials and Deeds. The Season Five Plunder Pass can also be purchased separately, enhancing your pool of Seasonal rewards with premium goodies not yet available anywhere else! Find out more in our Seasons Explained and Plunder Pass Explained articles.
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Enough of only digging up other pirates’ spoils – finally, you can bury your own! Season Five now allows you to fulfil that crucial part of any pirate fantasy, by letting you bury almost any item and create a map leading right back to it. You can do this purely for safekeeping, or post your map on the new Quest Board at the nearest Outpost and challenge other crews to seek it out.
If another crew successfully finds the location of your buried treasure, you’ll earn a healthy dose of Renown. Just be careful when following other players’ maps taken from the Quest Board – you can never be sure if what’s been hidden away is prime loot or something not quite so desirable…
[h3]Set Things Off with a Bang
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Whether you’re kicking off celebrations or just sending up a flare, Season Five brings in some explosive ordinance for pyrotechnically inclined pirates!
Fireworks come in a spectrum of different colors and designs, and can be found in barrels around the Sea of Thieves or bought in themed Firework Crates from the Merchant Alliance. If you’ve found yourself in a spot of trouble, there are also Signal Flares to help you signal to passing crews that you’d appreciate a little help.
Fireworks and Signal Flares alike can be fired from cannons, even from the prow of the Cannon Rowboat – a new mini-craft for any pirate who likes the idea of being a one-person demolition team!
These new features are accompanied by numerous quality of life updates to improve in-game immersion, whether it’s sitting and sleeping, passing the time on board with new shanties and dice emotes, whispering to crewmates by turning your speaking trumpet around or watching rats scurry around your sinking ship. Plus of course there’s a new crop of time-limited Events, kicking off with our annual celebration of charity, the Festival of Giving, and the traditional end-of-year bash, Grogmanay. Throw yourself into the spirit of the season to earn some festive cosmetics!
[h3]Pirate Emporium Plunder
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As with previous Seasons, pirates can bolster the Seasonal rewards available with never-before-seen goodies from the Season Five Plunder Pass! Wrap up warm, as this latest Plunder Pass arrives on glacial winds – headlined by the complete Boreal Aurora ship set, which channels the dazzling aurora that streaks across the northern skies. Also included is the evolving Creeping Cold Costume, which transforms as you progress through the Season’s 100 levels, and the adorable Sand Angel Emote. A special festive haul of 750 Ancient Coins is also included, which – combined with the 250 already earnable through Seasonal progression – lets you recoup the cost of the Plunder Pass if you reach a high enough level!
The Pirate Emporium’s range of wares inspired by Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean also gets a boost in Season Five: the fearsome Royal Revenge ship and weapon sets, Captain Barbossa Costume and Mutinous Mutt pet all evoke tales of one of the most treacherous captains who ever sailed the seas…
[h3]Find Out More
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For more information on the Sea of Thieves Season Five update, including full release notes, visit the Sea of Thieves website. The update is available for free to all Sea of Thieves players who have the game on Steam. Simply download and install the latest Sea of Thieves update to get access.
New to Sea of Thieves? Find out about the latest free content updates on our What’s New page and pick up some tips from our Pirate Academy, which provides invaluable information on topics ranging from sailing to swordplay as you prepare for your maiden voyage. Learn more about Sea of Thieves at www.xbox.com/seaofthieves, or join the ongoing adventure at www.seaofthieves.com where you can embark on an epic journey with one of gaming’s most welcoming communities!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1172620/Sea_of_Thieves/
With the nights drawing in and the chill of winter fast approaching, Sea of Thieves offers a warm welcome to pirates old and new with the arrival of Season Five. With new Seasonal rewards, Events and a whole host of quality of life updates to deepen your pirate immersion, this Season also brings in pirate pyrotechnics and a long-requested game-changing feature: burying treasure! If you’re keen to dig into this and everything else Sea of Thieves has to offer, Season Five is now available as a free download for all players on Steam.
As with previous Seasons, Season Five and its 100 levels of rewards can be embarked upon free of charge by all Sea of Thieves players. To earn rewards, raise your Renown by sailing the seas and tackling regularly rotating Trials and Deeds. The Season Five Plunder Pass can also be purchased separately, enhancing your pool of Seasonal rewards with premium goodies not yet available anywhere else! Find out more in our Seasons Explained and Plunder Pass Explained articles.
[h3]Quest for Treasure
[/h3]
Enough of only digging up other pirates’ spoils – finally, you can bury your own! Season Five now allows you to fulfil that crucial part of any pirate fantasy, by letting you bury almost any item and create a map leading right back to it. You can do this purely for safekeeping, or post your map on the new Quest Board at the nearest Outpost and challenge other crews to seek it out.
If another crew successfully finds the location of your buried treasure, you’ll earn a healthy dose of Renown. Just be careful when following other players’ maps taken from the Quest Board – you can never be sure if what’s been hidden away is prime loot or something not quite so desirable…
[h3]Set Things Off with a Bang
[/h3]
Whether you’re kicking off celebrations or just sending up a flare, Season Five brings in some explosive ordinance for pyrotechnically inclined pirates!
Fireworks come in a spectrum of different colors and designs, and can be found in barrels around the Sea of Thieves or bought in themed Firework Crates from the Merchant Alliance. If you’ve found yourself in a spot of trouble, there are also Signal Flares to help you signal to passing crews that you’d appreciate a little help.
Fireworks and Signal Flares alike can be fired from cannons, even from the prow of the Cannon Rowboat – a new mini-craft for any pirate who likes the idea of being a one-person demolition team!
These new features are accompanied by numerous quality of life updates to improve in-game immersion, whether it’s sitting and sleeping, passing the time on board with new shanties and dice emotes, whispering to crewmates by turning your speaking trumpet around or watching rats scurry around your sinking ship. Plus of course there’s a new crop of time-limited Events, kicking off with our annual celebration of charity, the Festival of Giving, and the traditional end-of-year bash, Grogmanay. Throw yourself into the spirit of the season to earn some festive cosmetics!
[h3]Pirate Emporium Plunder
[/h3]
As with previous Seasons, pirates can bolster the Seasonal rewards available with never-before-seen goodies from the Season Five Plunder Pass! Wrap up warm, as this latest Plunder Pass arrives on glacial winds – headlined by the complete Boreal Aurora ship set, which channels the dazzling aurora that streaks across the northern skies. Also included is the evolving Creeping Cold Costume, which transforms as you progress through the Season’s 100 levels, and the adorable Sand Angel Emote. A special festive haul of 750 Ancient Coins is also included, which – combined with the 250 already earnable through Seasonal progression – lets you recoup the cost of the Plunder Pass if you reach a high enough level!
The Pirate Emporium’s range of wares inspired by Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean also gets a boost in Season Five: the fearsome Royal Revenge ship and weapon sets, Captain Barbossa Costume and Mutinous Mutt pet all evoke tales of one of the most treacherous captains who ever sailed the seas…
[h3]Find Out More
[/h3]
For more information on the Sea of Thieves Season Five update, including full release notes, visit the Sea of Thieves website. The update is available for free to all Sea of Thieves players who have the game on Steam. Simply download and install the latest Sea of Thieves update to get access.
New to Sea of Thieves? Find out about the latest free content updates on our What’s New page and pick up some tips from our Pirate Academy, which provides invaluable information on topics ranging from sailing to swordplay as you prepare for your maiden voyage. Learn more about Sea of Thieves at www.xbox.com/seaofthieves, or join the ongoing adventure at www.seaofthieves.com where you can embark on an epic journey with one of gaming’s most welcoming communities!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1172620/Sea_of_Thieves/
VOTE FOR SEA OF THIEVES IN THE STEAM AWARDS
First off, we have to say a huge thank you to all those sailors who've taken to the seas and made Sea of Thieves a heartwarming Steam success story since our launch here in June 2020!
Now we're looking towards the next horizon: getting some wind in our sails for this year's Steam Awards! For that, we're going to need the help of our many bold pirate crews (that's you) to nominate Sea of Thieves under 'Labor of Love' - a category especially for games still getting love and attention long after launch.
If the game goes on to be successfully shortlisted in this category, we'd love your support again when final voting goes live in December. We know you can help Sea of Thieves romp to victory, pirates!
As part of the Autumn sale, you'll be able to grab Sea of Thieves for 40% and satisfy all of your pirating needs!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1172620/Sea_of_Thieves/
Now we're looking towards the next horizon: getting some wind in our sails for this year's Steam Awards! For that, we're going to need the help of our many bold pirate crews (that's you) to nominate Sea of Thieves under 'Labor of Love' - a category especially for games still getting love and attention long after launch.
If the game goes on to be successfully shortlisted in this category, we'd love your support again when final voting goes live in December. We know you can help Sea of Thieves romp to victory, pirates!
As part of the Autumn sale, you'll be able to grab Sea of Thieves for 40% and satisfy all of your pirating needs!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1172620/Sea_of_Thieves/