Uncommon and Microsoft are celebrating the fifth anniversary of Sea of Thieves, however the builders are additionally searching towards the horizon for the following 5 years of the stay service pirate journey.
In an article on Xbox Wire, Xbox revealed that the Sea of Thieves crew at Uncommon lately sat right down to plot out the following 5 years of the sport.
“I believe 10 years of Sea of Thieves will really feel like a very long time – but additionally, we’ll blink and be there,” artistic director Mike Chapman mentioned. “And I nonetheless assume we’ll have unfinished enterprise after we get to that time.”
The Sea of Thieves crew is seemingly discussing concepts for smuggling mechanics, rewards for shielding different gamers from griefers, and a mechanic for “portray” screenshots. The event crew’s mantra is “Gamers Creating Tales Collectively”, and this large imaginative and prescient has the crew feeling like they’re going to by no means run out of concepts, so long as gamers are there to expertise them.
There are another fascinating tales in Xbox Wire’s celebration of Sea of Thieves. The builders revealed that the unique pitch for Sea of Thieves starred secret brokers as an alternative of pirates, and that they “ripped up our roadmap” after launch and altered the strategy to the sport’s content material updates.
Sea of Thieves has seen tons of content material updates since its preliminary launch in 2018. From collaborations with franchises like Pirates of the Carribean and Borderlands, to final 12 months’s randomized three-part quest, there have been loads of seafaring adventures for gamers to sink their enamel into.
We re-reviewed Sea of Thieves in 2020, calling it “a pirate fantasy sandbox with an infinite quantity of issues to do, made unpredictable and thrilling by the addition of different gamers.” The sport additionally made our checklist of the ten greatest co-op video games.
Logan Plant is a contract author for IGN protecting online game and leisure information. He has over six years of expertise within the gaming trade with bylines at IGN, Nintendo Wire, Swap Participant Journal, and Lifewire. Discover him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.
