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When you think about it, we’ve got no right to get annoyed when someone nicks our loot in Sea of Thieves<\/strong>. To do so is to stoop to the same level as those people who apply to appear on the TV show ‘Ex on the Beach’ and then act floored when their ex turns up. <\/p>\n

Still, there’s one incident on the high seas – those impossibly gorgeous rolling seas of Rare’s creation – that will stay with me forever. It captures all that’s brilliant and every horrible facet of the game at once. And it begins, as stories from the pirate MMO so often do, with a shape on the horizon. <\/p>\n

“Could be players”, says our navigator, using his spyglass while dangling over the ocean on the bow sprit, for some reason, instead of up in the crow’s nest. “Don’t think they’re heading our way though.”\n<\/p>\n

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When you think about it, we’ve got no right to get annoyed when someone nicks our loot in Sea of Thieves. To do so is to stoop to the same level as those people who apply to appear on the TV show ‘Ex on the Beach’ and then act floored when their ex turns up. Still, there’s one incident on the high seas – those impossibly gorgeous rolling seas of Rare’s creation – that will stay with me forever. It captures all that’s brilliant and every horrible facet of the game at once. And it begins, as stories from the pirate MMO so often do, with a shape on the horizon. “Could be players”, says our navigator, using his spyglass while dangling over the ocean…<\/p>\n

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