Sea Of Thieves has been on a journey ever since its launch in March. Mainly, it’s been on a journey to fill the confines of itself with more content, as that was one of the biggest complaints of the game when it arrived. Rare has obliged that request, and has given both free updates and DLC that has greatly expanded the world of the game. And if all player requests are to be taken seriously, the title may just be getting a Battle Royale mode in the future.
This comes from Rare’s Mike Chapman, who noted to Game Informer: “I think last year we said every sail on the horizon will always be a real player ship.”
He also said that every request players have given Rare, they’ve done it:
“Players started asking for skeleton ships, and we said, ‘Let’s give it to them’… People also said it would be cool if we expanded the world, so we’ve expanded the world, but we’ve done it, and we made the gameplay fundamentally different in Devil’s Roar for Forsaken Shores.”
But Chapman also noted that one of the important things for them is that no matter what they add, they have to put a “Sea Of Thieves” twist on it:
“I think there are so many examples of content in the game where we’re like, we always talk about the death mechanics and we turned it into the ghost ship. We put a Sea of Thieves spin on a familiar mechanic with new and interesting takes. We see the battle royale thing, but I think there will be opportunities to do that kind of thing differently. It’s interesting where you can take PvP in the game, but we’d want to put a unique Sea of Thieves spin on it and do something completely surprising.”
So, is a battle royale mode coming? It’s possible, we’ll just have to wait and see.
