Rare have been posting developer updates for Sea of Thieves on a regular basis and the latest one mentioned that Xbox One players will get an option to opt out of cross-play with PC, which caused divided reactions from the fan base.

Executive Producer Joe Neate confirmed that cross-play will become optional between PC an Xbox One players in the latest Sea of Thieves developer update. The developers are hoping to introduce the change in one of the future updates.

Microsoft's pirate game Sea of Thieves will get install size update which is scheduled for 06 February 2019. The update will greatly reduce install size but will also require players to re-download the entire game again on all platforms.

Sea of Thieves executive producer Joe Neate has shared a few bits of info on the game's direction in 2019 and Rare's swashbuckling adventure will be getting a new and improved PvE quest system, as well as the Arena mode, and quite soon.

Microsoft and Rare have announced a fourth free content update for Sea of thieves dubbed Shrouded Spoils. The update brings fog, new customisation and skeleton fort options among other things. Shrouded Spoils goes live on 28 November 2018.

Rare have announced their plans to bring competitive PvP to Sea of Thieves and The Arena, as the mode's called, will be coming to the game in early 2019, when pirates will be duking it out amongst themselves to impress the new company.

Rare have rolled out the 1.3.2 update for their swashbuckling adventure Sea of Thieves and the new Bilge Rat Adventure dubbed the Festival of the Damned is taking over from the game's Forsaken Shores campaign, cosmetics included of course.

Rare have decided to shed a bit more light on the next expansion to their swashbuckling adventure Sea of Thieves called Shrouded Spoils, which includes expanded ship customisation options, unique commendation for pirate legends and the fog.

Rare have released Forsaken Shores expansion for Sea of Thieves, sending players into the volcanic region known as Devil's Roar. It will present them with new loot, new type of voyage and a new vessel for navigating tight bodies of water.

Rare are closing in on the first major content update for Sea of Thieves dubbed the Hungering Deep and the company have rolled out a delightful trailer before "a special time-limited campaign" introduces "a range of permanent features".