Rare's SEA OF THIEVES Will Be Adding Lore And A Quest System That Revolves Around A Story

When Sea of Thieves released in March of this year, it was a complete and utter disaster due to players complaining about the game being lackluster, repetitive, and somewhat uninspired as there was not really much to do—in spite of it being a multiplayer game.

Over time, Rare has been announcing some much-needed updates for Sea of Thieves that promised to make the whole experience a whole lot better for players.

In a recent interview with Gamereactor, Sea of Thieves producer Joe Neate mentions that the game will soon be getting lore, as well as a new and improved quest system that will revolve around story—while also agreeing tht they have underserved players, but promising they can do better.

"I think it's fair to say Sea of Thieves at launch appealed to a certain range of players that love that free-form, creativity, having their own adventures in this shared world, and almost our quest system gives you a little nudge but that's not the only thing that you chase," he said. "But for some people that want guided goals, they want lore, they want story, we know that we're underserving players, but we've proven that we can do it and that it works in the shared world with campaigns we've done around the Hungering Deep or Cursed Sails where you put lore, put story in".

Originally, implementing a new quest system was meant to be the fourth update for Sea of Thieves, but they ended up pushing it back to next year in order to add even more substance to it. 

"So we've had a team working on basically a new and improved quest system around story and lore in this shared world for quite a while now actually, and it was originally planned to be our fourth update, but we actually moved it back to next year because we wanted to add and grow. We saw the potential in it and we wanted to really, fully do it justice. So yeah, there's a team working on that, has been for quite a while, will be for a little while more, but I think when we bring that into the game it's gonna appeal to those people that want that crafted lore, want that adventure, want that story, and also maybe appealing to single players as well".

Sea of Thieves may have been a disaster when it launched, but it is nice to see developers owning up to their mistakes and promising to one day finally deliver what they promised before the game came out. Let's just hope it's not too late.

Sailing and fighting, exploring and looting... the pirate life awaits you! Enjoy total freedom in a shared world bursting with buried treasure, ancient shipwrecks and thrilling ocean battles.