I went the route of getting SoT through gamepass as well. Had just over $22 on my account and went ahead and just bought a 1month membership. Which fyi for those who dont know, if you have money in your MS account via gift card you wont need a credit card when buying a 1mo game pass. So I figured okay 10 bucks to try out SoT, and no worry of forgetting to cancel my membership and being charged if I don’t like it. Aaaaanyway lol I load up SoT and didn’t have any issues that have been plaguing some gamers like accessing the servers or being kicked. I just been having bad luck. As a solo player I knew going in it would be a lot harder to do the most important things easier like controlling your ship and gathering supplies, I was fine with that and figured I should know how to do everything anyway. However I encountered things like an empty world. I figured I would run into some other people and join up and learn some tips, but nope, only one ship that instantly started firing at me that I was able to outrun and they gave up. When seeking out buried treasure, this is where most my problems began. I grabbed three maps. Set sail and get to the island. Hop off my boat l, locate where I should start digging only to find out my shovel, sword, gun and everything else but the map and banana were all gone. Thought maybe it’s back in the boat. Goto my inventory chest and it acted as if I had all those things equipped. So somewhere between looking at my treasure map and swimming to shore my equipment just glitched out. So I jumped off a cliff to kill my guy hoping my stuff would come back. It did but now I lost that one treasure map. Okay, onto the next one. Get there and its dark. Get to the island get bit by a snake then I get shot by a mummy off in the distance! Wtf I thought!! I couldn’t hit the mummy to literally save my life with my gun. I go chasing after the damn thing with my sword and as I approach another damn snake bit me killing me! Lol Come back to life and I’m like ok -blam!- that place. Try the third place which turns out the same island the first one was but in a different spot. I arrive and it’s storming. First strike of the shovel and hit the treasure box. Ahhh what a good feeling. Things starting to go right for this lonely pirate. I head back to my ship and it’s really storming now. Climb up my ladder and soon as I put my treasure chest down I get struck by lightning and die!!! This time when I respawn Im back at the main island with a new ship and no treasure chest :( Needless to say I’m not going back out without any friends. It was still fun though but super frustrating not being to accomplish a single thing in two hours of playing. I still have zero gold and zero quest completed. But I know it’ll be a different experience the second time around. Least I hop so!!