Developer Rare disabled Sea of ​​Thieves servers without warning on October 29, 2024, to perform “emergency maintenance.” Active players who were sailing the seas at the time and searching for the next great treasure were improperly kicked out of the game, losing all the riches they had.

“Unfortunately, we have no choice but to take the Sea of ​​Thieves servers offline for urgent maintenance.” The studio announced on social media. “We apologize for any disruption to your journey and we will let you know when you are free to sail again.”

There is no indication of what exactly caused the emergency care to occur. Usually servers are shut down and maintained on a set schedule, allowing players to plan for downtime and prevent losing their progress. Frankly, something unusual must have occurred for Rare to take such drastic action.

Rare recently had to disable certain game functions due to a bug associated with them, so he may be looking to implement the fix for this as soon as possible, but this is not confirmed at this time.

Sea of ​​Thieves currently follows 2024 update roadmap and it was launched on PS5 earlier this yearachieved great results here.