After the latest update, Xbox Sea of Thieves players must reinstall the whole game

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After the latest update, Xbox Sea of Thieves players must reinstall the whole game

Here's some news that may upset some fans. Rare carried out a major maintenance on the Sea of Thieves servers on Thursday March 14. The latest update has now been applied, the new anti-cheating system included.

To take advantage of those new features, those who own Sea of Thieves on Xbox or PC via the Microsoft Store must reinstall the entire game, which is well over 100 GB in size.

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