TWYCROSS, United Kingdom — Just a day after announcing its revolutionary new video game generative AI model “Muse,” Microsoft owned studio Rare has used it to produce Sea of Thieves Season 15: Wild Things.
“Muse is already proving to be the best thing to come to Sea of Thieves since the Sovereign’s tent in Season 7,” said an excited Drew Stevens, Production Director at Rare. “Season 14 was so buggy and lifeless that players already thought it was created by AI, so now that Muse is here we can truly show what AI can do and prove that it really has been our development team behind all the rubber-banding and hit reg issues.”
Popular Sea of Thieves streamer HitboTC, who had become so disillusioned with the game that he ventured off to try his hand at Star Citizen, the “Sea of Thieves of Space,” said he is giddy at the thought of everything generative AI could bring to the game.
“Whoa baby, the shenanigans in Season 15 are going to be amazing – MommaBear coming in with the 37-month Tier 1! You’re a legend! – and I can’t wait to get back out on the seas with my sloopington for some tucks and steals,” said a vibrating HitboTC, bouncing in his chair. “Just think…AI can create all sorts of new fish for this Hunter’s Call-focused season. Red ones, glowing ones, legendary ones, even fish that don’t look like fish at all. And then we can catch them and sell them and catch them and sell them and grind, grind, grind, for the next cosmetic!”
Fellow streamer PhuzzyBond, known for his studious approach to Sea of Thieves, explained that he is looking forward to “sciencing” the new generative AI creations.
“I plan to devote an entire stream to determining if our distance from an island affects which new fish are generated and what percentage of them look like absolute garbage,” Phuzzy explained after taking a moment to tend to his hydroponic garden. “It might be hard to tell the difference because the game’s graphics look like they were made in Midjourney v1, but I am nothing if not thorough. In the end, though, everything is pointless,” he added. “It’s all a never-ending cycle of trying to earn the next ‘thing,’ but at least AI is here now to generate a new megalodon upon which we can all fixate for a week.”
At press time, players are still unable to get into the game because Muse siphoned too much power from the Sea of Thieves servers.
