The ridiculous respawn system is certainly not the fault of players.
It’s easy to get peeved and start grumbling about people with no empathy for their fellow players, but when they’re playing a game that places absolutely no limits on how much you can hassle other pirates, then the blame lies at the devs’ feet. Sea of Thieves absolutely creates this situation. But aside from a notice that most players probably won’t even read, there’s nothing stopping people from spending the whole day camping and stalking. It even says, in the Pirate Code of Conduct, that fighting should take place at sea. It’s not the same as ramming into another ship and then boarding it in the hopes of finding treasure, or at least some chickens. If you’re just hanging around doing some shopping, there’s no point in someone killing you. In a multiplayer game about pirates, PvP is almost a necessity, and ship-to-ship battles remain thrilling, but being murdered when you’re just reading your map, trying to talk to NPCs in an outpost or trying to set up a pirate band is just disheartening. That Sea of Thieves has PvP isn’t the problem. We rarely had anything worth stealing, so ultimately it was just two groups of pirates, boring themselves for nothing. We’d either be docked or on land, another ship would sidle up to us, murder us and then camp out on our ship until they got bored. This sums up just about every single encounter we had last night. Eventually they got bored, scuttled our ship and left. This happened several more times until we just waited them out on the ferry. We respawned on our ship, where the other pirates were waiting for us. We were both a bit disappointed that our very first encounter ended in bloodshed, but we patiently waited for the ferryman to let us return to the land of the living, hoping that our next life would contain more friendship and fewer bullets in the skull. Unfortunately pirates rarely follow suggestions. It promotes community and fair play, and if these were rules rather than suggestions, the ocean would be a lovely place. There’s a Pirate Code of Conduct stuck to the wall in every tavern in Sea of Thieves. Sea of Thieves is quite a lot of fun until you meet other pirates. This was our first sight of other players, and we were excited to get our instruments out and expand the size of our band. We’d both cleared our schedules so we could enjoy a leisurely cruise across Sea of Thieves’s striking azure ocean. “More pirates!” I shouted at my matey, who we’ll call Andy because that’s his name.
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