I don't consider spending money on a game to play against bots to be a good choice. Adding bots to the game IS what makes it dead, because that is signing off on giving up on doing ANYTHING to bring players back. Whether it be "giving it away for free" or putting it in a humble bundle or something. Sea of Thieves offers the essential pirate experience, from sailing and fighting to exploring and looting everything you need to live the pirate life and become a legend in your own right.
Worse games than this have recovered from much lower player counts simply by putting themselves in a humble bundle at the dawn of a major update. With no set roles, you have complete freedom to approach the world, and other players, however you choose.
BLACKWAKE UPDATE UPDATE
Sea of Thieves Steam charts, data, update history. I have not played this game so I can't say, but holdfast/blackwake/etc are all based around community interaction, not mindlessly killing poorly coded AI in a simulator type FPS. If squad lost most of it's players would adding bots be the solution to "keep the game alive"? No, because nobody is going to pay to play against AI in a game that was designed to be a PVP milsim and have fun social interaction. I think I will stay away from the game entirely no matter what, especially if the "only way to go" for the game is to add bots because nobody wants to play it. Sounds like burning money to me.I would confidently posit that the individuals who are in the habit of faithfully checking steamcharts stats in order to make a decision of game purchase would not be likely "convinced" by the introduction of bots. I've seen several folk on the steam discussions and elsewhere saying GAME IS DED based upon an arbitrary metric of their own desire- they compare this game to, I don't know, Insurgency or Holdfast or something else. For games beside Blackwake, this may be a good indicator of life-support and soon death for the game. However, the actual user experience does not at all line up with what they have in mind.
BLACKWAKE UPDATE FULL
Shit, when steamcharts had about 150 unique players per day or something, I STILL managed to avoid any large inconvenience and played on a full server on most days- even weird-ass times. This is one game that, uniquely, has a very solid foundation of nerds that are most likely simply enamored with boats and boat-related activities.
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