Is Sea of Thieves down? – Game should be running but rewards slow – WePC – PC Building Community

Last Updated: January 31, 2022

It looks as though Sea of Thieves is having matchmaking issues as players are unable to get into the game at the moment. The official support Twitter account has said the devs are looking into the problem but hasnt given any indication of how long issues may exist.

UPDATE 31/1: Due to the fact the game was down for so long in the middle of a community event Rare has added an extra 12 hours to the event time. That doesnt;t seem to be the end of the issue though and players are reporting they are not getting their rewards for completing the event quests. The official SoT Twitter has just tweeted:

UPDATE 30/1: The devs have just tweeted that the log-in requests are taking too long due to players spamming and trying to get into the game, they are taking the major step of temporarily disabling sign-in to attempt to alleviate the issue.

Sea of Thieves log in requests are taking too long due to overwhelming demand, with the queue jammed due to constant attempts. Our intent is to temporarily disable sign-in so we can unblock the pipe and trickle players back in thank you for your patience as we do this.

The player base is becoming increasingly frustrated however as SoT is in the middle of a 24-hour long in-game event and four hours have passed since people started having problems. It seems likely that this will have to be addressed once the game is back up and running.

The inaugural Sea of Thieves Season 5 Community Day was announced by Rare as a way of encouraging players to tweet about the game the more tweets that get out there the better the rewards on offer looks like they have nailed it

UPDATE 2 30/1: Rare has just further tweeted saying they are listening to player frustrations and assuring players they are doing everything they can to fix it. Its a bad Sunday for somebody thats for sure. They are also (as predicted) looking at potentially extending the event something which will surely happen.

We hear your frustrations, and want to assure you that were doing everything we can to fix log in issues as soon as possible. We are also exploring options regarding the extension or rescheduling of this #SeaOfThievesCommunityDay well let you know when we have news to share.

Currently, yes it is, at least for many people. And at least the devs know all about the issues.

A quick look at DownDetector shows the extent of the problem over the past few hours.

Problems seem to have flared up once again after a similar-looking issue was last reported on 21st January and then before that on 9th January. The server issues seem to have returned to plague the game now for the third time this month.

It seems the problem can manifest itself as the above error although this can also be caused by (if in doubt blame the players) antivirus software or an inaccurate time set on the users PC. What it seems to be however is directly connected to your PC being unable to connect to the host server, and that is why you may be getting the problem showing in this way.

The tweet above obviously suggests there is a delay in accessing the game, but it seems that the delay is long enough that people are giving up.

Hopefully, it wont take too long to fix it up, but if you are struggling to get on the high seas at the moment, at least you know you are not alone.

Players are also reporting seeing the Strawberry Beard error which is another sure sign of a bad connection to the server. You are definitely just going to have to wait this one out, unfortunately.

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