It seems like just yesterday that we launched the Insider Programme for Sea of Thieves. We felt that getting our game into players' hands early, learning from their feedback and building a community around this game was critical for a new, shared world experience like Sea of Thieves. We started with our first 1000 players in December 2016, and we have been steadily expanding the player base and feature set over the last year.

Since we began we've seen our community grow as players go adventuring in our magical world, we've seen battles held, friends made, instruments played and quite a bit of overindulgence on our surprisingly strong grog. Most excitingly, we've seen many, many amazing stories from our players, and recently we allowed them to share these with the world during our Closed Beta. It was incredible to be able watch players live in Sea of Thieves for the first time, to see their adventures unfold first-hand and to hear the stories they had to share.