Yo ho and a bottle of rum! Of course, the drink is part of the everyday life of a pirate, and according to the alpha statistics of the online game Sea of Thieves, the testers here really had a blast.
The beta of the pirate game Sea of Thieves is about to start on January 24. Time for the development studio Rare to take a look back at the alpha. What did the players do in this first testing phase?

This is what players experienced in the alpha of Sea of Thieves
According to a funny infographic, the testers really let loose and indulged in gold and drinks:
- 583,578 cups of grog were emptied by players during the alpha
- 1.84 billion gold coins were looted
- 669,637 chests of gold were sold
- 3,836,103 cannonballs were fired by players
- 521,993 players met their end in PvP
- 127,860 players were eaten by sharks
- 1,263 pirates were struck by lightning
- The most dangerous pirate with 2,032 kills was Capta1n Cr0ss
- A total of 54,787 days were played

Beta starting soon
These and other statistics can be seen in an infographic that the developers released about the game. There are indeed several opportunities to become famous and infamous while you search for treasures and sunken shipwrecks on the high seas.
Let’s see what interesting numbers the beta of Sea of Thieves will present.
The closed beta of the pirate online game runs from January 24 to January 28.
