Sea of Thieves hits 15 million players, 1 million of them on Steam
Piracy on PC is at an all-time high.

Sea of Thieves has ed the 15 million player milestone, with over one million of those being from the recent Steam release alone.
Although it launched to a launched on June 3.
The game has been a regular fixture in Steam's top-selling games since its launch on the storefront, and at the time of writing is in third place behind Far Cry 5 (which is on a deep discount) and Death Stranding. While the game didn't exactly blow anybody away when it first released in 2018, it has managed to pick up a committed fanbase through a combination of Xbox-PC crossplay and five large-scale content updates interspersed with smaller, monthly updates to tide things over.
With it also being available through Games for PC and a larger playerbase than ever before, now is probably the best time ever for would-be-buccaneers (or stargazers) to get into Sea of Thieves.
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