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 reside service pirate journey.
In an article on Xbox Wire, Xbox revealed that the Sea of Thieves workforce at Uncommon lately sat all the way 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 in addition, we’ll blink and be there,” artistic director Mike Chapman mentioned. “And I nonetheless assume we’ll have unfinished enterprise once we get to that time.”
The Sea of Thieves workforce is seemingly discussing concepts for smuggling mechanics, rewards for shielding different gamers from griefers, and a mechanic for “portray” screenshots. The event workforce’s mantra is “Gamers Creating Tales Collectively”, and this broad imaginative and prescient has the workforce feeling like they will by no means run out of concepts, so long as gamers are there to expertise them.
There are another attention-grabbing 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 a substitute 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 yr’s randomized three-part quest, there have been loads of seafaring adventures for gamers to sink their tooth 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.