There’s something quietly quite exciting happening, and I wonder where it’s going to lead.
What excites me is what it means for players and, I suppose, for the games themselves.
They’ve been with us so long they’ve become familiar.
Well, not yet.
This gradual fading away has nothing to do with the quality of the games.
Both have evolved consistently and considerably, and are much fuller and more sophisticated experiences than they were.
To compare them now and then would be unfair.
But excitement does not correlate with a game’s evolution.
Moreover, will people still know what to do in the game or will they feel patched out?
What magical moment is that?
Think about when we first played that closed beta test of Sea of Thieves.
I remember it so well.
I remember everyone running around trying to figure out what the game was and how it worked.
And once you did:wow!That sea.
Then: another ship - friend or foe?
It was a non-stop chain-reaction of firsts.
Switch to Grounded and it’s a similar thing.
But the impact of these experiences lessens with time and repetition.
The rush was intoxicating; I can still feel some of it, even now.
And who knows what the knock-on effect of that will be?
No update or expansion could achieve such a thing.
That’s why I’m so excited.
This, well, could change everything
