The arrival of Seas of Thieves on PS5 was a success, as confirmed by the PlayStation Store sales charts which saw it at the top in both April and May. According to a report by True Trophies, in any case, It seems like a lot of players have already jumped shipnot a very positive sign for a live service game.
Based on data from over 3.1 million active accounts on the PlayStation Network provided exclusively by analytics and tracking agency Game Insights, True Trophies claims that Sea of Thieves for PlayStation 5 lost 58.66% of players between May and June 2024. This is an important wake-up call for Microsoft, as a live service game like Sea of Thieves needs a stable player base, despite having sold a lot at launch.
According to True Trophies, the peak of active players was reached on Sunday 5 May, therefore five days after the launch on PlayStation 5 on April 30th. Since then the user base has continued to decline steadily, reaching its minimum on the last day of the survey, on June 9, 2024during which a -58.66% was recorded compared to the launch week.
In this type of video games a decline in the number of active users is far from anomalousindeed, it can be considered physiological, however in the case of Sea of Thieves it appears rather consistent, since we are talking about the abandonment (permanent or temporary, this is yet to be seen) of over half of the pirates. It would be interesting to know Microsoft’s expectations to understand whether this decline was expected or whether it also caught the Redmond company off guard. On the other hand, it must be considered that data of this type can be very fluctuating, since a new special event or the start of a new season is enough to bring the number of active users back up. In other words, the situation deserves to be monitored over the long term.
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