Sea of Thieves: Content Plans
Sea of Thieves has started off with a bang!!! And true to their word Rare are laying out the plans for the future of the Xbox's biggest draw card.
Check out the below details and be sure to stay tuned as we bring you more updates.
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Sea of Thieves: Content Plans
New
updates, new features and new challenges coming your way!
It's been just
over three weeks since we launched Sea of Thieves, and a lot has
happened since then! We've been listening to you all, and we know you are keen
to hear how we plan to grow Sea of Thieves. As we've always said,
launch is just the start, and we are going to grow and evolve the game with
feedback from our community. It feels like the right time to reveal how we'll
do this.
Sea of Thieves is a unique experience. As we look to add to the game, we will be very purposeful about the type of experience we want to create, and how we want this game to grow. At the same time, we have also been listening closely to everyone playing the game since launch and have been ensuring that this feeds into our content plans. When considering what to add to our plans, we always consider how we can make the most impact on the following:
Sea of Thieves is a unique experience. As we look to add to the game, we will be very purposeful about the type of experience we want to create, and how we want this game to grow. At the same time, we have also been listening closely to everyone playing the game since launch and have been ensuring that this feeds into our content plans. When considering what to add to our plans, we always consider how we can make the most impact on the following:
- Bringing players together in
interesting ways, encouraging different types of player encounters
- Enriching the world that
players adventure in
- Giving players new ways to play
- Giving players a variety of
goals and rewards
- Broadening the journey to
Pirate Legend and beyond
Alongside this,
what's key for us is the rhythm and cadence we want to get into with Sea
of Thieves. Our focus for April is to continue addressing the top feedback
points, but as we move into May, our focus will shift to new content.
Our first content
update, The Hungering Deep, will release in May and bring with it a new AI
threat to the world. Crews will have to work together to discover and defeat
this threat as part of a unique event. We will also be introducing a number of
new mechanics to assist players on this adventure, and there will be unique
rewards that players can earn as part of this event. Beyond this, we will begin
our weekly events programme during May, where we introduce new mechanics and
give players fun new ways to play with weekly events and rewards.
In the summer
months, we'll debut two more content updates with Cursed Sails, which will
include a new ship type, and Forsaken Shores, which will introduce players to a
perilous new part of the world to explore.
Similarly to The
Hungering Deep, both of these updates will also include new gameplay mechanics
for players, new AI threats to challenge and new unique rewards to claim.
As we've always
said, we never wanted to do anything to separate our players, so we're pleased
to confirm that all content updates will be available to all our players, at no
additional cost.
For more details
on our plans for the coming months, and some in-depth thinking behind them, please watch the video.
With Sea
of Thieves being a game that grows and evolves, we'll be listening to
you, our community, throughout. As such, we'll always be looking at whether our
current plans are meeting your needs. Based on feedback since launch, we have
changed the priorities for both Pets and Ship Captaincy which we had previously
announced as things we would look to add in the few months after launch. These
are on the back burner for now whilst we add to the game in other areas. Expect
our plans to continue to be fluid, but always with the goals listed above as
our guiding principles.
We are hugely
excited to be beginning this phase of Sea of Thieves, and seeing
where the adventure takes us.
Cheers,
– Joe Neate,
Executive Producer
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