Sea of Thieves - Metacritic/Review thread - Metascore: XBO - 69 (69 reviews) PC - 68 (23 reviews)

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Manlytears said:

Ryuu96 said:

Sea of Thieves always has higher viewers later in the day, It did in the Beta and now Final Release, I assume because the big streamers are American/UK and it's currently morning for them, we'll have an accurate picture of whether the viewers have 'plummeted like a stone' later on in the day.

It's also not the first time he's brought up numbers when they were low in an effort to make it look bad towards Sea of Thieves, even though they went straight back to being high later in the day.

Just looks to me like selective picking, waiting for the numbers to be low when the typical Sea of Thieves streamers aren't online.

I have to admit that this is a fair point. well, let's see SoT numbers later today. Perhaps this game stills popular.

It will be popular for a few more days until the popular variety streamers drop it like a stone. I've seen a variety streamer pull a whooping 80k viewers which was about half of all viewers at that time.

I don't really think it's a very good streaming game.There are a lot of factors that have nothing to do with popularity that will determine if it will get viewers. If I look at Rocket League it's more than apparent. it's a very popular game that has on average 50-100k concurrent and millions of active players. Throughout the day. It's a great game to watch as an e-sport and pulls very high viewer numbers when the championship is on. But on itself it's just a terribly boring streaming game. that's why it currently sits at a mere 700 viewers.

Twitch numbers basically don't mean a single thing about success if your game isn't a good streaming experience.