Sea of Thieves kicked off its ninth season in March, which means the time for Season 10’s launch – at least according to the game’s regular schedule of seasonal updates – is approaching. As it turns out, however, developer Rare has announced that the wait for the next season of its online pirate game is going to be a bit longer than expected.
Rare has announced that Sea of Thieves Season 10 has been pushed back to October 19 from its previously-planned August launch. Rare says that “the challenges of implementing new systems” in the game with Season 10, additional months of development became necessary. “These types of foundational releases are challenging to make, as we have to ensure they interact with all the existing systems in the game,” wrote head of community Christina McGrath, who also mentioned that Season 10’s headlining feature is one such example.
The develoer has also acknowledged that this means Season 9 will go on much longer than it was intended to, and a lot of players may already have gotten everything out of it that they possibly could have.
“We recognise that it’s not just the delay of new content that’s frustrating, but the impact on Season Nine’s length too,” McGrath wrote. “It was never our intention to have it last this long, and we understand that many of our players will have already hit Renown level 100 and feel like they’ve explored everything there is to see and do with the features introduced in Season Nine. We know you’ve come to expect a consistent rhythm of how and when we deliver new gameplay experiences, and Season Ten’s delay means that we’ll be asking you to wait a little while longer to get your hands on a big, brand new feature.”
That said, there’s still things for Sea of
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