Sea of Thieves is a great game and it comes as no surprise that the game is rising in popularity as we speak.
Xbox announced that the game surpassed 15 million looting, plundering buccaneers. 3.3 million active players were registered in June, which is an absolute record. The Steam release at the beginning of June also resulted in 1 million additional sales.
Xbox Game Pass surely had a massive role to play here but that's not the whole story, of course. The game deserved this success and I am really glad to see it doing so well. Years of new content have only made the game better and I can see the same trend going on in the future as well.