A gamer by the name of Jay White has today learned the hard way that some games may appear greater than they actually are when looked at through the rose colored lenses of a prominent Streamers Livestream highlights.

During a week of Holidays Jay decided he’d like to catch up on games he had been meaning to play over the last couple of years – for him it was a no brainer when he decided to purchase Rare & Microsoft’s 2018 Pirate action adventure game Sea of Thieves.

“The main reason for me choosing Sea of Thieves was that I’d seen my favourite streamer Summit1G play it on my lunch breaks at work when I’d tune in to his streams, it looked like a tonne of fun when he was in parties with 3 of other streamers, fighting other ships and searching for treasure.” He told our reporter.

$39 USD later – Jay started his journey into the game optimistically – “Once I first logged in I was really excited, I loved the art style from the get go, however after a long winded introduction from some creepy looking pirate in a bar I was left with no idea what I was supposed to do.”

“I mean, I kind of just walked around the island before eventually stumbling upon a ship which I just kind of assumed was mine… Then I set sail. There was no HUD, tutorial or anything so I just sailed aimlessly for a good 30 minutes before realizing I had to start missions on the voyage table.”

“After completing about 7 voyages I started to realise that they were all actually just fetch missions… Eventually I returned to port and cashed in my loot thinking it would progress the story or something but I actually just got money to spend on cosmetics…”

“‘Well maybe the PVP will be better’ I thought to myself, setting off to find an enemy crew. After 3 hours of no sightings I eventually stumbled upon a glamorous looking ship. Trying to recreate Summit’s play style I launched myself onto their ship with my cannon.”

“Upon boarding an enemy ship however instead of the tactical, thrilling combat I had seen on Summit’s streams I was instead shanked to death within moments by 4 pirates with matching Deep Ocean Crawler Cutlas’ whilst they yelled racist obscenities at me through their microphones.”

After getting killed Jay had time to reflect on his purchase during the painfully long death sequence players are forced to endure, in which he came to a .

“I guess the game is skewed for Summit seeing as he is playing with 3 other highly skilled & entertaining players as well as the fact he is constantly met with stream snipers to fill his lobbies. Getting paid to play probably also makes this game bearable.”