Sea of Thieves Developer Kills Plans for Controversial ‘Death Penalty’
After Rare announced that Sea of Thieves would soon include a penalty levied against players who died in-game, they are already canceling these plans after widespread complaints of players.
Check out the tweet that the executive producer Joe Neate wrote, explaining that they will cancel the plans of a death penalty for the game:
Letting everyone know we've heard the feedback and the proposed 'Death Cost' in #SeaOfThieves is, well, dead. We messed up with the messaging around this, and it's now gone. Thanks for the honest feedback & discussion on this. https://t.co/83pYg5HPbq
— Joe Neate (@JoeNeate1) March 26, 2018
Rare first announced that it would tax players upon dying last week in a forum post about forthcoming updates.
“This new feature has the Captain of the Ferry of the Damned deduct a small gold fee when you die,” the post from a Rare employee explained. “Rates are dependent on the cause of death, so the more avoidable the death, the less patience the Captain will have when we enable this feature!” It was also explained that players killed by other players wouldn’t have to pay any sort of penalty.
The feedback that received Rare, was immediately and almost overwhelmingly negative.
“Death Cost is a bad idea,” one player said. “Personally I have fun randomly blowing up my teammates with gunpowder barrels. Death cost removes the ‘sandbox’ ‘make the world what you want’ type of feel. New players are going to see the biggest impact. Please don’t do this.”
Other fans argued against the addition for similar reasons as the ones above.
“Normally I’m up for being careful and having a punishment for death, but I just don’t think this is the game for it.” another player explained. “I like doing crazy jump or insane plans and wouldn’t not want to do them for fear of having my gold slowly trickling away.”
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