Sea of Thieves Offering Boosted Rep Until December 27

Sea of Thieves Offering Boosted Rep Until December 27

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It's not quite the weekend, but Sea of Thieves is having a double XP holiday weekend anyway. From now until 10 am on December 27, all players can earn "boosted" reputation across all trading companies, including the original trio of the Merchants Alliance, Order of Souls, and Gold Hoarders, as well as the 2019 additions of The Hunter's Call and the Sea Dogs.

The event comes at the conclusion of Rare's Festival of Giving in their co-op pirate adventure, an event that began on December 13 and offered limited-time quests and various bonuses every day. This final offering of the event now encompasses the next three days as the British studio closes out a successful second year at sea with their game after a critically subpar launch in March of last year.

In addition to the boosted rep for all trading companies, players who join the game during this final event will find a Rum Runner quest in their list of available voyages. If you don't use the quest during the event period, it will, as always, remain in your inventory for use later.

Elsewhere at Rare, the studio is working on another new IP which they revealed at X019 in London a few weeks ago. Not much is known about Everwild yet, though the reveal trailer offers hints of a colorful forest world imbued with some kind of magic. Multiple characters can be seen exploring together, leading some to speculate that Everwild, like Sea of Thieves, will be focused on co-op.

Sea of Thieves launched on March 20, 2018 to lukewarm reviews. At launch, many players and critics felt the game's world was full of untapped potential and the game needed more time to add content. Since then, Rare has done that by supplementing major expansions like The Hungering Deep and Forsaken Shores with other monthly updates that have added things like megalodon sharks, a new volcanic region that acts as the de facto hard mode, and PVE ship battles, which Rare once said they'd never add before fans clamored for them. Today it exists as one of the most played Xbox Game Studios titles month after month.

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