There isn't going to be a Battle Royale mode

Sometimes it just seems like a lot of people can't relate to the way the SoT devs talk (and I don't blame the devs).

I just took that as them sort of talking, openly, about it theoretically (since they were asked about it). They were speaking more about what their game is about, and what their philosophies and preferences are. Not as though they are going to do any such thing.

And then... the threads talking about a BR mode happening have a ton more activity than this one, lol.

But.. but... This!

Sorry I love this little comic so much and it predates this by a looong time.

@murkrage yeah, that was how I understood their response in that article too.

@murkrage Imagine being the final two ships fighting it out in a tiny circle lol.

When these threads started popping up and someone even wrote a gaming article saying battle royale is coming to sea of thieves, I wanted to chime in. I was forum silenced at the time for my gamer pic once again because someone is very fragile and offended by my gamer pics or more likely doesn't agree with me telling the truth. I wanted to say that, this is reaching. They never once said battle royale is coming. They said they want to do their own thing. Once again someone is stretching devs words to suit someones arguments. There won't be sea of thieves battle royale in the sense of how that exists elsewhere. That article that came out where the writer says it's coming and then links the real article that says what they really mean just sounds so silly when you read it all within context. It almost felt like that writer was trying to be provocative by saying that, knowing what was really meant.

Here's what was said about battle royal in the interview.
*Are you working on a Battle Royale mode?

Duncan: [laughs] You’re the second person to ask that.

Chapman: That’s quite interesting.

I bet I won’t be the last.

Chapman: I think last year we said every sail on the horizon will always be a real player ship. Players started asking for skeleton ships, and we said, “Let’s give it to them.”

Duncan: Players said, “Ship combat is awesome. We’d like to take on a galleon of skeletons,” so we changed that.

Chapman: 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. What you’re going to see, as we do the content updates beyond Forsaken Shores – we’re going to do three more this year and beyond with the way we’ve set up our teams to create a steady flow of content. You’ll see a mix of us responding with laser focus to players’ feedback and things that are going to surprise people.

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.

Duncan: It’s not about taking something that works super well in another game, and going, “Hey, let’s start everyone in a Sea of Thieves map from different points and have you all come together.”

Chapman: Our shared world is unique and the thing we’re most proud of is what you see, is a new I.P. and we wanted to do things differently – it has landed well with players and the feedback we’re getting is, “We love this foundation that you built. I just want to have more of it,” and that’s what we set up the team to do. The fact that we’ve kind of changed the perceptions of multiplayer, and the way we use mechanics in our world? We always want to surprise people. We want to keep doing these kinds of unexpected things that only we can do.*

Very clear to me. They never said Battle Royal is coming to sea of thieves. I believe that writer that says its coming is making a strawman argument.

@guepard4 You are just false entirely here. I didn't say never to anything. They never said you would never see skeleton ships. Since when does a sloop accept four player? You aren't making much sense to me here. Are you trying to argue with me about something?

@guepard4 Ok. If you insist. I'm going to have ask you to produce a quote saying there's going to be a four player sloop, from any official account. I bet there isn't. Maybe someone out there twisting some dev words, but no there is no 4 player sloop coming.

@guepard4 Huh? Are you hijacking this thread with nonsense?

@guepard4 You can't be serious? I'm not avoiding anything. I'm really starting to feel like you are trolling at this point.

@katttruewalker Yea, I remember all of that. I couldn't remember exact words in his tweet, but I knew they didn't say anything more about it after that. This guy above was just trying to find a point to argue with me on.