Dan Rodriguez for SG: “I would play here and there after the initial release, usually by myself. I would do a few voyages and soon get bored and frustrated. I was progressing so slowly that I thought Id never see level 25 of any of the factions. It was a grind, and a boring one at that. So I left. I left for a long time. Then something happened.”
Source: N4G PC The Evolution of Sea of Thieves through the Eyes of a Pirate Legend