Sea of Thieves first launched in 2018 as a relatively bare-basic open world pirate game experience, but Rare has consistently supported the game, releasing substantial new updates that accept helped it become incredibly popular. Rare isn't slowing down its support of Sea of Thieves someday soon, as it has previewed what fans can expect from the game in 2022. And while this year will see even more new content added to Bounding main of Thieves, it will too see some content removed from the game also.

Rare has confirmed that it is shutting down the Sea of Thieves Loonshit mode, which is an exclusively PvP mode first introduced in the game'south Anniversary update back in 2019. This mode is adept for players who aren't interested in exploring the game world and simply want to fight other pirates and sink enemy ships, but it will be going away at some betoken during Flavor 6. A specific removal date wasn't mentioned by Rare, merely Body of water of Thieves Flavor vi starts quondam in March, so time is running out for anyone that wants to play the Loonshit fashion.

Rare described shutting down the Sea of Thieves Arena as a "difficult decision," but one that will be necessary so the studio tin can focus its efforts on the new Adventure content that it will exist rolling out throughout the twelvemonth. Rare added that Loonshit playtime but accounts for near 2% of full playtime in Sea of Thieves, indicating that not many players are all that interested in playing it anyway.

Regardless, the conclusion to remove Arena from Bounding main of Thieves will probable show to be a controversial one for a couple of unlike reasons. For one, Loonshit has been a place where players can go to immediately get into some action. In the standard Sea of Thieves experience, it can have quite some time for players to encounter enemy ships, especially since Rare has reduced the number of ships per server from six to five.

The other reason why this will likely be a controversial conclusion in the community is because there are Sea of Thieves achievements tied to completing sure accolades in the Arena mode. When Arena shuts downwards, information technology will effectively make it incommunicable for new Ocean of Thieves players to unlock all the achievements in the game, unless Rare has some programme to change the requirements for those achievements.

Perchance the new Sea of Thieves Adventures content will be enough to proceed fans satisfied, though it'due south unlikely to scratch the same itch equally PvP. Bounding main of Thieves players can go along to enjoy Loonshit for now until it walks the plank in Season 6.

Sea of Thieves is out now for PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.

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