Does Sea Of Thieves Have Microtransactions

Pets take finally arrived in Bounding main of Thieves as part of this month'southward Smuggler's Fortune update, and with them comes the game's new existent-globe cash shop.

The Pirate Emporium, as Sea of Thieves' microtransaction market place is known, has been a long time coming, with Rare revealing its intentions to introduce cash purchases to its multiplayer pirate adventure well before its release last March. Now that the store is finally live, withal, we can come across just exactly where information technology lies on the ol' microtransaction exploitation scale.

We had a few hints of how Sea of Thieves' microtransactions would stack up earlier this week when, during Mon's developer livestream, Rare displayed U.s. pricing for its premium currency, Ancient Coins. Now though, nosotros tin see Uk prices for Bounding main of Thieves' awkwardly sized Ancient Coins bundles, used to purchase items in the Pirate Emporium:

150 Ancient Coins - £1.69 ($1.99 USD)
550 Ancient Coins - £4.99 ($five.99 USD)
1,000 Ancient Coins - £8.39 ($9.99 USD)
2,550 Ancient Coins - £19.24 ($22.99 USD)
4250 Ancient Coins - £29.24 ($34.99 USD)

It's possibly also worth noting that Ancient Coins can exist earned by defeating "rare" Ancient Skeletons in-game, although, with no clear indication of but how rare these are at present - and no thought of how many coins they might offering - this is likely all-time treated every bit a very occasional pleasant bonus, used to acme up an existing stash of Ancient Coins, rather than as a means of fugitive spending real-world money altogether.

And with UK prices now revealed, information technology's possible to put something similar a real-earth value on Sea of Thieves' diverse new in-game items, even if the variable cash equivalents of Aboriginal Coin packet pricing inevitably means that information technology's hard to pin downwards an exact amount.

2 breed variants are available for each pet - the macaw and parakeet for parrots, and the barbary and capuchin for monkeys - and they weigh in at 499 Ancient Coins apiece, and then just shy of £5. That doesn't feel extreme at offset glance, specially compared to the brazen micro-transaction costs seen in other games, but, disappointingly, Rare has elected to eke out more cash by making colour variants only available equally separate, full-cost pets - pregnant you lot'll have to spent another five quid if yous suddenly want a dark-brown monkey instead of orangish one.

Outfits, of which in that location are currently only 1 per pet category, price 249 Ancient Coins (somewhere around £2.50), and there's a unmarried pet and outfit bundle for 649 Ancient Coins - but you don't become a selection as to your pet colour here.

Elsewhere, the Pirate Emporium sells emotes, with Rare's launch shop featuring a total of eight. Two of these can be purchased individually for 149 Ancient Coins (effectually £i.69), while the rest are simply available in a 999 (£8.40-ish) Aboriginal Money bundle.

Easily the most egregious addition to the shop, however, comes in the class of Bounding main of Thieves' first paid ship cosmetic fix. These are due to refresh on a regular basis, with each one being themed around a archetype video game IP. The current offer, a Banjo-Kazooie set consisting of seven themed pieces - a figurehead, hull, sails, capstan, wheel, flag, and cannon - costs ii,499 Ancient Coins (close to £eighteen). Two "Collector'south" edition figurehead and sail variants bring the complete fix to around £25.

So all in all, it'south pretty standard fare for microtransactions in a post-Fortnite world. Emotes and pets certainly aren't bank-breakers, unless you lot embark on a gotta-collect-'em-all spending spree for every color variation, but those ship set prices are admittedly on their way toward the deplorable end of the microtransaction spectrum.

Sea of Thieves' microtransaction shop arrives as role of the new Smuggler's Fortune update, which also adds a selection of limited-time voyages, various quality-of-life improvements (including cross-play opt-out in Arena), and the new Duke's Black Market store - offer new items, plus variants of limited-fourth dimension cosmetics, that can only be bought using in-game currency.

The game's new monthly release cadence ways that Bounding main of Thieves' next big update, currently notwithstanding a mystery, will launch on Wednesday 9th October.

Source: https://www.eurogamer.net/sea-of-thieves-launches-micro-transaction-store-includes-gbp25-ship-set