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Sea of Thieves is a game tailor-made for cooperation with fellow seafarers, and the Affiliate Alliance is a new tool to help lonesome pirates find their crew.

The Affiliate Alliance is made up of community-made groups designed to coordinate between teams and attract players who might not have friends that play Sea of Thieves. Right now, there are English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Deutsch, and Russian communities for players around the world to connect and team up.

As a Sea of Thieves player who regularly captains a Sloop with no crew, I am precisely the Affiliate Alliance's target demographic. While admittedly I do enjoy the freedom and relaxing grind of manning a small ship in peaceful solitude, it's not as fun when a fully-provisioned and hostile Galleon ship descends upon my helpless one-man operation.

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