Alright, we’ll spare you the cheesy ahoy-matey attempts at setting the tone and skip to the meat - Sea of Thieves closed beta has ended with a total of 332,052 players. Although a seemingly unimpressive figure at first, the fact that it’s a closed beta of a Microsoft exclusive title puts a really positive spin on it.

With the official launch slated for March 2018, Rare’s swashbuckling action-adventure is making big strides towards the date as the company announced the closed beta for January 24. To make sure that the game is noticed by world plus dog, Microsoft is making as much noise as possible and even launched a special Sea of Thieves controller.

The next PUBG update will add a new weapon, foggy weather and a bunch of bug fixes. New ways of rendering water in the game are also to be implemented at some point down the line.

Rare's Sea of Thieves is shaping up nicely

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