Uncommon Has Plotted Out the Subsequent 5 Years of Sea of Thieves

Uncommon and Microsoft are celebrating the fifth anniversary of Sea of Thieves, however the builders are additionally looking towards the horizon for the following 5 years of the dwell service pirate journey.

In an article on Xbox Wire, Xbox revealed that the Sea of Thieves group at Uncommon just lately sat all the way down to plot out the following 5 years of the sport.

“I feel 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 group is seemingly discussing concepts for smuggling mechanics, rewards for shielding different gamers from griefers, and a mechanic for “portray” screenshots. The event group’s mantra is “Gamers Creating Tales Collectively”, and this large imaginative and prescient has the group 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 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 listing of the ten finest co-op video games.

Logan Plant is a contract author for IGN overlaying online game and leisure information. He has over six years of expertise within the gaming business with bylines at IGN, Nintendo Wire, Swap Participant Journal, and Lifewire. Discover him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.