Rare is already working on an unannounced game so if SoT succeeds then the unknown game won't be canceled.

Just like 343 with Halo, Coalition with Gears and Turn 10 with Forza, if Sea of Thieves manages to catch people's attention, the studio will turn around the SoT franchise forever.

Microsoft usually amputates the studio creativity when they hit the jackpot with a games franchise.

If SoTs is successful, no one will be complaining about a SoTs 2 or continued support for SoTs 1.
Cant wait to play it.

Supposedly rare is working on Sea of Thieves and another game. I think Microsoft is really pushing for sea of thieves to be successful because they want it to be a staple franchise like the Gears of war, Forza and Halo Franchise. I like Microsoft pushing games as a service because those games have longevity. I'm still playing Gears and Halo constantly because of all the updates. Hope sea of thieves can be another one for me.

OT: Also, banjo kazooie game will flop even though I like the game personally.

So If MS gets a succesfull game as service they will make old single player niche games? Yes that makes perfect sense.

For rare's sake and all the fans that are hoping for some revival of old rare game, you better hope sea of thieves fails, or else they will be stuck on that single game for ever.

No. Gamers want good games in general. Hoping for a game to fail for the assumption of older games to be revived is stupid. 

This is an industry with thousands of employees. KI was a revival and wasnt made by Rare. Also nothing is stopping MS from using a small team at Rare to monitor Sea of Thieves while they continue to innovate and create.

Id rather play an amazing game now than a bad one in hope of a revival of an older game.

If anything, if Rare succeeds with Sea of Thieves than it gives confidants to the brand and there owners to create more, not the other way around. Thats silly.

If Sea of Thieves fails, it has more of a chance of Rare being absorbed rather than MS giving them more freedom.

I’m looking forward to this game. I don’t care what happens afterwards as long as this game is good.

Rare is owned by MS so I don't think they'll go anywhere unless they are financially in a good enough position to leave. If they left, would they even have any IPs to take with them or does MS own them?!

If SoT does well, MS will have them milk SoT, after all, it is GaaS. Best case scenario, they will have a dedicated team working on expansion passes and updates whilst another team at Rare starts on a new similar project.

Yea you are right, wanting a game to fail is not gona help anything. Definetly wont give rare more freedom. Unless is a game like battlefront, thats something that everyone can agree that must fail so publishers stop pushing greedy microtransations on us. 

What I dont agree with you is about suport to games we want to see more off. Even if the game is not as good, if is going in the direction we would like I say we suport it, even if it means buying a game we dont like very much. We have to vote with our wallets and if there is money in that direction then more devs would risk venturing in that direction. Then maybe a good game will come that we will like.

I know it sound dificult to say buy a crappy game now in hopes of a good game maybe coming, but such is the position we are in. Games as service, online multyplayers, microtransactions, loot boxes, preorder bonuses, season passess, all this garbage was voted by consumers when they purchased it in masses wich led devs to keep at it. While it will not stop, we can at least push a little in the direction we want by buying some iffy games.

It doesn’t take nearly as big a staff to maintain and support a game as it does to build one. Sea of Thieves can succeed, and Rare can move on to other things. Hell, don’t they already have another game in the works? lol.

I don’t have any worries about them becoming “Black Flag Studios” or something dedicated to churning out sequels. This seems more like a game that would just be expanded upon, not milked with sequels. You know, like Destiny should have been handled.