Sea of Thieves startede med at indtage tronen på de engelske salgslister, og nu, lidt under en måned efter, er spillet dykket lige under top 10 med et fald på 26%. Microsoft lader til at være ganske tilfreds med lanceringen, men analytiker Michael Pachter har ikke mange pæne ord til overs for spillet.
I et interview med GamingBolt fortæller Pachter at Rare har haft svært ved at innovere.
"You know, I think, and I mean this with respect, but I think they have limited capacity within their studios to innovate. So the 343 guys do Halo, and that's great, and it challenges them to the max, to come up with some new twist every 2-3 years on Halo. The Coalition guys do Gears, and it's the same thing for them. Rare, on the other hand, has just not been very good at innovation."
Men Pachter har tydeligvis et problem med Rare, for senere i interviewet vender han tilbage til deres manglende talent.
"I honestly think Sony has a deeper bandwidth of talented studios, they have multiple 90+ ratings among them. And Microsoft doesn't have as many. They had Lionhead, and that didn't work out very well. They've stuck with Rare for 20 years, and that didn't work out... I just think Rare has gotten worse and worse."