There are gold subs for Windows?

Oh you mean playing on PC. I guess you can do it but you would still need a new paypal/cc each time you make an account for the free trial.

I assume your talking about games that are radically differnt in approach of how they go about things?

That nintendo direct with the indies everyone hated, had a game that stood out like that too.
Pool Panic, where your playing on a pool table with various theme's and obsticles, and the balls are alive and walking about ect.

That looked fun because it was so differnt. Same with Golf Story. Teraway Unfolded, Until Dawn, Rocket League,...

As for Sea of theives... hmm... theres probably better sand box type mmos out there.
Black Desert Online is like this too right? a sandbox where its up to you to make your own adventure.
But it has vastly more to do, and many differnt ways to go about things, and a meaningfull progression system.

Same could be said for like Eve Online. Its not like Sea of theives is the only sandbox mmo out there.
And upcomeing ones  Crowfall, Camelot Unchained, Life is Feudal, durango ect ect.

Game seems to be a huge disappointment, which is sad as I thought it did look promising. Lots of people trying put their free Gamepass membership it seems...lucky if they didn’t pay money for this unfinished and empty game.

Sea of Thieves isn't an MMORPG.

I do fault it (SoT) for not haveing any RPG elements... but that doesnt mean its not also a MMO = Massively Multiplayer Online game.
Also its a sandbox.

Eve Online is also a MMO and a Sandbox game, same with Black Desert Online.

True these in turn are also rpgs... But I dont hold that against them :p

*edit:
In short I know that Carl.
However I feel like Black Desert Online, is MUUUUUCH closer to Sea of theives than MineCraft is (another sandbox)

In black desert online, theres trade roots, you can play as a pirate and raid other players, black mail them, work out tax's on roots you controll ect.
You can build and sale ships..... so in some reguards its MUCH closer to sea of theves, than another sandbox like Minecraft is.

I don't think shared world and MMO are the same thing.

If we're talking sandbox, would you put Grand Theft Auto 5 and Red Dead Redemption in the same boat as Sea of Thieves, Eve Online and BDO?

You can be like 24 people on a "server" atleast, so potentially in sea of theives you could have alot of dudes fighting one another online.

That makes its a MMO.

"would you put Grand Theft Auto 5 and Red Dead Redemption in the same boat as Sea of Thieves, Eve Online and BDO?"

I guess so, they all have sandbox elements.

BDO (black desert online) most def.
You can build boats, make money transporting goods, and have others rob you on the sea/river (play as a pirate) ect.
So yeah BDO is very like Sea of theives.

Its hard to say a game that puts you on a server that is limited to 16, 20, 24, whatever is an MMO.  I mean hell by that definition every CoD game is an MMO because of their multiplayer lobby size.

If Sea of theives didnt let you "keep" the money you earn, your ship, cosmetics between Login's (every login = new character).

Yes then it would NOT be a mmo.
I feel like that fact that it has those elements, does atleast somewhat lead it towards the MMO catagory.

*edit:  Wow Just checked the SoT Wiki and under genre it says "Action-Adventure" huh?

"action-adventure cooperative multiplayer" is what it says..... not sure if thats a "potato patato" situation or not, or if they dont see it as a mmo.