The Sea of Thieves beta continues this weekend and will carry on for longer than first planned.
Microsoft announced an extension of the current closed playtest run on Xbox One and PC, following issues players had gaining access and playing.
With those who pre-ordered missing out on a few days of action, the tech giant has decided to extend the beta run.
The closed Beta will now end on Wednesday, January 31st at 8am GMT, providing two days more of action.
Here’s the latest from the Rare Sea of Thieves team, who have confirmed: “We know that a number of you are still unable to get into the game to play.
“Our Community and Customer Support teams are working hard to keep you all updated with information as we get it, but we’re also taking what you’re telling us back to the other teams here at Rare.
“Some players who pre-ordered the game digitally are seeing a “too early” message. We have been working with our partners across Xbox to get this resolved as smoothly and as quickly as possible.
“The fix for the issue began rolling out last night (UK time) and is unfortunately taking longer than anticipated to reach all affected players. We’re sorry that this is the case. We’ve set up a dedicated article for this issue on our Support site.
“We know your gaming hours are precious and our number one goal is to get everyone with Closed Beta access into the game as soon as possible.
“Whilst we work on making this happen, we’d like to announce that we’re extending the Sea of Thieves Closed Beta by two days.
“This means the Closed Beta will now end on Wednesday, January 31st at 8am GMT. We want to ensure that anyone who has missed out on any time sailing the seas still gets to enjoy the Closed Beta to its fullest.”
Those who have preordered from the Microsoft / Xbox Store, The Sea of Thieves Closed Beta will appear in your ‘Library’ on the Microsoft Store if playing on PC and ‘My Games and Apps’ if playing on Xbox.
It should be noted that while the Sea of Thieves Closed Beta is effectively a trial run and progress won’t carry over into the full adventure launching on March 20th.
PC Founder installation as confirmed by Microsoft:
There are three stages from start to finish: Install the Insider Hub, find Sea of Thieves in the Hub and finally install the game from the Hub and Store. Follow the steps below:
- Press the Start key and open the Store
- Search for and install the Xbox Insider Hub
- Launch the Hub and you’ll find Sea of Thieves waiting for you
- Click the icon which will take you through to the Store page
- Click install and the download will begin.