Hear me out devil fruits great for forcing exploration if u want to get one u explore islands no buying them just items and for marketing use ancient coins for A lower level Devil Fruit U can change the name to avoid copyright
Suggestion hear me out
@burnbacon Its a part of an anime called one-piece and they give you supernatural powers like rubber man etc look up Devil Fruit one-piece for more information
I think the dev's have idea's in the pipeline for all sorts of items and non-conventional weapons that won't require skirting round copyright laws or crossovers. Just because One Piece is pirate themed doesn't necessarily mean it'll "fit" into Sea of Thieves. A referential item here or there would be fine but a crossover or anything is incredibly unlikely.
I know alot of u are saying it would be unbenifitial for the game because u wouldn't be able to swim but taking out features like no swimming, overpowered strength, more range would make it a little bit more balanced and even taking out more features of it like you could be able to only eat one and if u eat it there's no turning back until you buy a in shop cosmetic called something like change Devil Fruit like the change character but instead of picking u would be able to delete the Devil Fruit you have equipped and eat another one by finding it.