After months of waiting and some tongue-in-cheek speculation that the game was nothing but a series of audio design diaries, Sea of Thieves is ready to start letting players on board soon. The game’s first technical alpha will start on December 16th, with select players signed up as insiders getting invitations to take part in organized play events with the early versions of the game. And it will be select players; the team estimates that about a thousand players, all told, will be getting into the test events.
Of course, you won’t be able to say much about it anyway, as this early stage of testing will be protected by NDA. Still, it means that the game is starting to weigh anchor and get out to sea, something you can see in a more visual format in a video just below. It’ll also give you an idea of what to expect for yourself… or the other lucky people who get into the test. Either one.
