Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode

@sir-lotus said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

@murkrage said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

@nyadc85 said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

It's all the rage right now and Sea of Thieves would be the perfect model for an alternate menu selectable mode that people could engage in separate from the main game and servers obviously. Similar to PUBG 100 players making up various crews would spawn into the world at various locations with their ships and battle it out within an ever shrinking margin until one crew or player was left standing.

This would breathe new life into the main game, add tremendous value, attract millions of new players, help Microsoft's GamePass service and give people inclined to PVP a chance to really have it out. This could do so much for this game it's not even funny, there's such a huge opportunity here to expand and grow this into a staple franchise with years of options and entertainment for everyone.

Yeah... no.

Just because it’s all the rage now, doesn’t mean it should get near this game. For the love of god, stop it with Battle Royale.

Why exactly? It wouldn't be tied to the main game. There's no downside to this and it would help the game grow substantially, not further its decline. This trend of people saying no to things but in no way rationalizing or explaining why something shouldn't be done is highly annoying and irrelevant.

@nyadc85 i love this idea! The storm in sot would be perfect! It would be cool if for the br mode they change the storm so 1. It sutrounds the map drawing everyone closer to the middle and 2. It should be like the current in game storm but mix it with the red sea(edge map border)! A good Battle Royale mode in SOT would save the game, imagine if they had solos, duos, 3man(new ship) and 4 man(galleon) and even a "man o war" for large squads! Idk i really think this game type would revive SOT!

I would rather them spend time finishing this game first

@murkrage said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

@nyadc85 actually, it would. Look at Fortnite, that game had a wonderful game mode focussed on something entirely different.

That gamemode also died simply because Battle Royale came to be. Let’s say you bring Battle Royale to Sea of Thieves, that somehow becomes incredibly popular and brings more people to the game. The focus isn’t going ti be the game we have now, it is going to be that Battle Royale mode.

Good example of this: Apple. Their mobile division is the majority of revenue. It shows in all their other divisions. The moment something else becomes the main focus, is when we lose on the rest.

It didn't die, it simply has less notoriety than the Battle Royale section of the game. There's nothing wrong with that and people still engage it as they always did as Battle Royale is not for everyone. Fortnite is bringing in billions in revenue, billions, and tens of millions of players engage it.

Regardless of BR being the most notable portion of the game, it has brought in tens of millions of people to the Fortnite world that would have not engaged it otherwise, and these masses bleed out into other aspects of the game completely filling out everything it has to offer.

@nwo-azcrack i think a year after release would be a good time for it, the games bugs would mostly be fixed at that point and the price of the game would likely be lower, at this point they could go full on fortnite and release a battle royale version of sot for free with the first cosmetic sets that released with the game then make people either pay for the new clothes or make them buy the full sot game and they just have to unlock it.

@murkrage said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

@itachi-6-uchiha said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

@nyadc85 i love this idea! The storm in sot would be perfect! It would be cool if for the br mode they change the storm so 1. It sutrounds the map drawing everyone closer to the middle and 2. It should be like the current in game storm but mix it with the red sea(edge map border)! A good Battle Royale mode in SOT would save the game, imagine if they had solos, duos, 3man(new ship) and 4 man(galleon) and even a "man o war" for large squads! Idk i really think this game type would revive SOT!

It really wouldn’t. It would save the name of the game, but not keep the game we have now. It would simply be another Battle Royale game, not the Sea of Thieves.

@luciansanchez82 said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

BR simply goes against the ethos of the game. The aim of BR is to kill everyone until you're the last man (crew) standing. Sea of Thieves is a shared world adventure, and whilst hostile encounters are frequent, they are not the sole interaction intended for the game. We're supposed to be able to team up, and interact in different ways. BR would take this away to encourage one outcome - killing the other guy to be the winner.

It's really not the direction I'd want this game to go. There's a beautiful game already here. I say Rare just needs to work on enriching what's already there (which they are).

It wouldn't be intertwined negating everything you just said, they would be separate from each other, the main game would still exist as it does now.

@murkrage said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

@nyadc85 said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

@luciansanchez82 said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

BR simply goes against the ethos of the game. The aim of BR is to kill everyone until you're the last man (crew) standing. Sea of Thieves is a shared world adventure, and whilst hostile encounters are frequent, they are not the sole interaction intended for the game. We're supposed to be able to team up, and interact in different ways. BR would take this away to encourage one outcome - killing the other guy to be the winner.

It's really not the direction I'd want this game to go. There's a beautiful game already here. I say Rare just needs to work on enriching what's already there (which they are).

It wouldn't be intertwined negating everything you just said, they would be separate from each other, the main game would still exist as it does now.

But that’s not how things work. The moment something else becomes the singular popular thing, the ‘main game’ suffers from it because that’s not where the money is coming from then.

If you want to play Battle Royale, play a BR game.

That's irrational fear, would the main game grow or decline from an addition like this? Obviously it would grow substantially. Would Rare's budget to further develop the main game grow or decline from an addition like this yes or no? Would Microsoft's game division become more profitable from an addition like this allowing for the creation of more games and IP yes or no?

The main game would grow larger than it ever had the potential to reach on its own, regardless if it took a back seat in notoriety or not it would reach heights never previously possible by the simple act of piggybacking. All Rare would have to do is provide assurances for the main game, its development and integrity and follow through on them, all would be fine.

its hard to deny fortnite's impact, and its role in bringing the genre to the forefront. with call of duties news of battle royale coming with the next release i'll be buying my 1st copy in years. this game could offer an original take, but it would have to be way down the road in development.

@nwo-azcrack said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

I would rather them spend time finishing this game first

One does not negate the other, they could increase staffing and take no resources away from main game efforts.

@nyadc85 said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

@nwo-azcrack said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

I would rather them spend time finishing this game first

One does not negate the other, they could increase staffing and take no resources away from main game efforts.

this would only be realistic once some of the content teams start becoming idle. hopefully not for at least the next year.

@squallycircle7 said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

@nyadc85 said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

@nwo-azcrack said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

I would rather them spend time finishing this game first

One does not negate the other, they could increase staffing and take no resources away from main game efforts.

this would only be realistic once some of the content teams start becoming idle. hopefully not for at least the next year.

Take Halo 6 and The Master Chief Collection, 343 Industries has hired and parsed a completely separate team to handle the present updating to TMCC which results in no resources being taken away from Halo 6's development, it's untouched and uncompromised.

The same could be done here.

@murkrage said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

@nyadc85 said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

@murkrage said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

@nyadc85 said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

@luciansanchez82 said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

BR simply goes against the ethos of the game. The aim of BR is to kill everyone until you're the last man (crew) standing. Sea of Thieves is a shared world adventure, and whilst hostile encounters are frequent, they are not the sole interaction intended for the game. We're supposed to be able to team up, and interact in different ways. BR would take this away to encourage one outcome - killing the other guy to be the winner.

It's really not the direction I'd want this game to go. There's a beautiful game already here. I say Rare just needs to work on enriching what's already there (which they are).

It wouldn't be intertwined negating everything you just said, they would be separate from each other, the main game would still exist as it does now.

But that’s not how things work. The moment something else becomes the singular popular thing, the ‘main game’ suffers from it because that’s not where the money is coming from then.

If you want to play Battle Royale, play a BR game.

That's irrational fear, would the main game grow or decline from an addition like this? Obviously it would grow considerably. Would Rare's budget to further develop the main game grow or decline from an addition like this yes or no? Would Microsoft's game division become more profitable from an addition like this allowing for the creation of more games and IP yes or no?

The main game would grow larger than it ever had the potential to reach on its own, regardless if it took a back seat in notoriety or not it would reach heights never previously possible by the simple act of piggybacking. All Rare would have to do is provide assurances for the main game, its development and integrity and follow through on them, all would be fine.

It’s really not. People actively playing ‘Fortnite’ as was the original game, now called ‘Save the World’, will tell you that it’s very clear that the further development of that aide of the game has been put on the backburner while Battle Royale is constantly improved. I won’t have the game we have now be put on the backburner just because Battle Royale could make this game more popular than it us now. If they do add it and it does become more popular, we won’t have Sea of Thieves. We will have Sea of Battle Royale.

I played Fortnite before BR came to be. The moment BR was released, it was very clear that the original game was put in second place. Great for money I suppose, not so great for what was a fun game.

Epic separated the games instead of leaving them in a unified package, that was their mistake, that doesn't need to happen here.

@murkrage said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

@nyadc85 said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

@murkrage said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

@nyadc85 said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

@murkrage said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

@nyadc85 said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

@luciansanchez82 said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

BR simply goes against the ethos of the game. The aim of BR is to kill everyone until you're the last man (crew) standing. Sea of Thieves is a shared world adventure, and whilst hostile encounters are frequent, they are not the sole interaction intended for the game. We're supposed to be able to team up, and interact in different ways. BR would take this away to encourage one outcome - killing the other guy to be the winner.

It's really not the direction I'd want this game to go. There's a beautiful game already here. I say Rare just needs to work on enriching what's already there (which they are).

It wouldn't be intertwined negating everything you just said, they would be separate from each other, the main game would still exist as it does now.

But that’s not how things work. The moment something else becomes the singular popular thing, the ‘main game’ suffers from it because that’s not where the money is coming from then.

If you want to play Battle Royale, play a BR game.

That's irrational fear, would the main game grow or decline from an addition like this? Obviously it would grow considerably. Would Rare's budget to further develop the main game grow or decline from an addition like this yes or no? Would Microsoft's game division become more profitable from an addition like this allowing for the creation of more games and IP yes or no?

The main game would grow larger than it ever had the potential to reach on its own, regardless if it took a back seat in notoriety or not it would reach heights never previously possible by the simple act of piggybacking. All Rare would have to do is provide assurances for the main game, its development and integrity and follow through on them, all would be fine.

It’s really not. People actively playing ‘Fortnite’ as was the original game, now called ‘Save the World’, will tell you that it’s very clear that the further development of that aide of the game has been put on the backburner while Battle Royale is constantly improved. I won’t have the game we have now be put on the backburner just because Battle Royale could make this game more popular than it us now. If they do add it and it does become more popular, we won’t have Sea of Thieves. We will have Sea of Battle Royale.

I played Fortnite before BR came to be. The moment BR was released, it was very clear that the original game was put in second place. Great for money I suppose, not so great for what was a fun game.

Epic separated the games instead of leaving them in a unified package, that was their mistake, that doesn't need to happen here.

You’re right, it doesn’t. But it will. Where everyone shares the same world now, the moment you introduce a game mode you will divide players and given the popularity if BR and the incredible difference it has to this game it will not be in favor of the game we have now.

That's a slippery slope and composition/division fallacy, is it not? Just because X took place previously does not mean the same fate would play out here, especially if handled much more delicately and with different motives that didn't split the package.

@itachi-6-uchiha said in Sea of Thieves should have a Battle Royale mode:

@nyadc85 i love this idea! The storm in sot would be perfect! It would be cool if for the br mode they change the storm so 1. It sutrounds the map drawing everyone closer to the middle and 2. It should be like the current in game storm but mix it with the red sea(edge map border)! A good Battle Royale mode in SOT would save the game, imagine if they had solos, duos, 3man(new ship) and 4 man(galleon) and even a "man o war" for large squads! Idk i really think this game type would revive SOT!

yep, it would still be last player standing, and ships of different class would be anchored around. being separate from the main game we would no longer be limited by all guns, clothes, and ships being of equal strength. i think it would be played best with duos or crews of 4.