I don’t want to beat a dead bush. This season has had mixed reviews already, and now most of the features of Season 14 have been deactivated.
This is a message to my fellow community members, the player base, and most of all to the Dev Team. Sea of Thieves needs to have a format of what makes an Update, an Update. Not just a handful of solid mechanics, not a massive interactive World Event, or a handful of interesting weapons. A fully fleshed out Update made with both the ingenuity of the Dev Team alongside the imagination of the community and her wants and needs.
Formatting:
Main Line Feature- This is one or even two ideas that would be the focal point of the update. New World Event, the overhaul and or the introduction of a Trading Company, or something to both examples level of degree.
Secondary Features- Two to four ideas that are the backbone to the MLF. New enemies, new voyages / overhaul of older voyages, new mechanics that expand off of older or newly introduced ones, and other ideas on par with the mentioned examples.
Minor Features- Depending on the complexity of the update, this could be from four to several ideas. New types of fruit, new weapons, the overhaul of present weapons, new clothing sets, etc, etc.
This format will come to play in Community Competitions. Similar to how the Dev Team sets up SoT Shot Contests, the Dev Team can choose a theme for a future Update, and put each type of feature as a category so a single person or a group of people can submit their idea into the respective category they wish to compete in. At that point, it would be up to the community to choose what they want as a Main Line Feature, or a Secondary Feature, or a Minor Feature. Then once voting has concluded, the Dev Team can take the most voted upon idea(s) of each category and shape them into an Update.
I know many will have disagreements with what I’m proposing, and many may agree with it. What I want is for Sea of Thieves to be what it was years ago.
“A grand adventure, a fight to the death, and a great big pile of treasure.”
I believe if this idea is looked at and or even taken up by the Dev Team, feedback for the game would significantly improve. Older players would hop back on more often. New players would stay around and devote themselves to the game more than they originally planned to.
But this plea hinges on the Dev Team. If you are reading this, you guys need to let us, the community, help. Hell, some of us would work for free if given the chance. We want Sea of Thieves to succeed, but you guys need to take a step back and look at what’s going on, and what needs to be done to patch things up, an move forward in a positive stride.
