I paid the bucks for Sea of Thieves and now can see me
not playing much down the road. It needs to be FTP at start, of course with restrictions, so players could test if they want to spend the money - but that's just me.
Anyway, what this game
does have is amazing graphics! If TLOPO could bring their graphics up to par with SOT, that would be absolutely amazing. TLOPO has the better storyline by far, better character customization and better weapon choices and varied enemy.
Don't get me wrong, SOT is very exciting the first few days but then becomes extremely tedious and, yes, seasickening (I get a bit green after sea battles, particularly in bad weather, haha). Not to say TLOPo doesn't have its tedious moments, it certainly does (uh-hemm, weapon level grinding) but that doesn't stop me from lamenting its loss back in the day, being excited about its return and coming back to create new pirates time after time. I don't think I will do that with Sea of Thieves.
For me, the only thing SoT ranks higher in, imo, is much, much better graphics.
Just my opinion, so not important