It is also, in a basic way, a terrible game. It's a tricky balancing act and, unfortunately, I'm seeing a lot of those same problems rearing their heads in Sea of Thieves. I've written before about how much I like what's going on in Sea of Thieves. Sea of Thieves is just empty, Tassi says, something we've wondered about from the very first moments we saw it. Like Pokémon GO, Sea of Thieves seems to represent a few flat-out amazing ideas that have run off miles ahead of some pretty basic game design.

Source: Forbes March 21, 2018 19:18 UTC